![]() ![]() He apparently discovered some ancient secrets there to prolonging his life and then, set upon his plan. Around this time, Kirk figures out that Krall is actually the former captain of the Franklin, Balthazar Edison, marooned on the planet and embittered by his lack of rescue. The Enterprise crew is able to get the derelict Franklin to work (hmmm) and disrupts the swarm’s signal with a radio signal - playing “Sabotage” in a nice callback to the 2009 reboot - but Krall is able to get into Yorktown. Krall escapes during the rescue attempt and his swarm heads for Yorktown. Turns out Krall attacked the Enterprise to steal an artifact the ship was carrying - Krall was tapping into Starfleet’s computers for a while - that can unleash a nasty weapon native to the planet. Eventually, Kirk and Chekov and later McCoy and Spock meet up with Scotty, and the group uses the Franklin’s transporters and Kirk on a motorcycle (because, of course) to rescue the crew. ![]() Franklin, thought lost more than a century earlier, that’s apparently abandoned on the planet. She takes Scotty to an old Federation ship, the U.S.S. Scotty meets Jaylah, ( Sofia Boutella) a youngish woman in hiding on the planet after escaping from Krall’s forces. The perpetrator is Krall ( Idris Elba) a nasty-looking dude who seems to have strong opinions about the Federation’s ideals and expansion. The saucer eventually crashes on the planet with most of the surviving crew captured - leaving only Kirk and Chekov (in one group), McCoy and Spock (in another) and Scotty free. Once there, the ship is savagely attacked by a swarm of ships that first destroys the ship’s nacelles (!) and then, cuts the saucer from the star drive (!!). The ship puts in at the new and quite impressive Starbase Yorktown, and is then called away to an uncharted planet obscured by a nebula. The Enterprise is in the middle of its 5-year mission, and Kirk feels somewhat lost, almost “episodic.” The young captain has quietly applied to be an admiral with a desk job and Spock is applying to be an ambassador to help his beleaguered people. It’s three years or so since we’ve seen the reboot crew. Glad to see my “no more running in the hallways” general order is being followed. ![]()
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