Star Trek Beyond: An Initial, Rudimentary Analysis

This will be really spoiler-heavy, so, you know, you've been forewarned.


In the original Star Trek series, there's an episode where the entire planet is run by a 20th century Roman Empire; another where they all act like 1920s Chicago gangsters; there's also a Nazi planet; one where Kirk gets into hand-to-hand combat with a dude in a giant green lizard suit; one where the Greek God Apollos himself captures the Enterprise with a giant floating hand (which is even referenced at one point in this...