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Fifty years after the network-television debut of “Star Trek” comes “Star Trek Beyond,” unlucky No. 13 for “Trek” at the movies. The Magnificent Space-Seven ride again: space-cowboy Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), emotionally repressed Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto), irritable Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Karl Urban), fumblingly resourceful Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (Simon Pegg, who co-writes this entry with Doug Jung), all-heart Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana), hot-dogging pilot Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (John Cho), and whimsical Ensign Pavel Chekov (the late Anton Yelchin).

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