I was quite pleasantly surprised by Beyond. It actually felt like Star Trek. Sadly, they’ve already announced that the next film won’t be penned by Pegg. Which I think is a huge mistake given everything he and Doug Jung did to course correct from the previous two films. Likewise, they haven’t announced the director but it feels like they won’t bring back Lin either. They finally got it right and it already feels like they’re going to steer it off course again.
While I do really want the franchise to continue in the direction Beyond did, I can’t say I’ll be too surprised if they go back into darkness (pun definitely intended). At least we’ll always have this one gem, even if the rest of the movies turn out to be crap.