BOOM Edition 3 August 2016 Issue | Page 31

REVIEW’S REVIEW : STAR TREK BEYOND T o any connoisseur of the original Star Trek television series, the sight of Captain James T. Kirk in a torn shirt will feel as familiar as family. (The character had a bad habit of ruining gold uniform tunics in his frequent fights.) So when the actor Chris Pine who plays Kirk in the current series of rebooted movies - says, "I ripped my shirt, again," after his peace offering to a delegation of tiny, gargoyle-like aliens goes anticly awry, the in-joke, which opens Star Trek Beyon