Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Gigabob — 22 Jul 2016

I was hoping for so much more - but instead got Fast and Furious in space. None of the introspection and prod to my intellect to think about the future. Even so I did have one major epiphany - In an era where we are on the cusp of general availability of self driving cars - who would put a human in charge of "flying" a spaceship. What human could calculate thrust levels relative to structural integrity much less make the kind of microsecond adjustment needed to maneuver like a hot rod in atmosphere. Humans will interface with computers to drive cars in 30 years - they will not perform the actual maneuvering of a space ship in 300 years. In fact my question became - what will a deep space probe actually look like in 300 years. Will it be more machine and wet-ware in a form of cyber-synth without any legacy human element?

But for the early 21st Century it did provide 2 hours of mindless entertainment. So it gets a 7.