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The interesting thing about the domestic box office for Star Trek Beyond is that it was right in the middle of the franchise’s domestic grosses when you play the “Adjusted for inflation” game.
Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond, scripted by Simon Pegg, was conceived and sold as something akin to a “Back to basics” old-school Star Trek adventure after the origin story reboot and the “Dark and important” Star Trek into Darkness.
The second film was about “Old Trek versus new Trek” with “Old Trek” coming out on top, the fan consensus was that the J.J. Abrams-directed blockbuster was too much of a conventional hard-action blockbuster in Star Trek clothing.
Star Trek Beyond went out of its way to play and feel like a multi-part Star Trek episode.
Without going into spoiler-y details, Star Trek Beyond indeed played like a three-part episode of the original Star Trek series before ending on a lovely grace note that arguably worked as a possible farewell.
While that’s the third-biggest domestic gross for a Star Trek movie, it was eighth out of 13 Star Trek feature films when adjusted for inflation.
That is not a slam, as my favorite of the bunch sits in fourth-to-last place ahead of Star Trek Insurrection and the justly maligned Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek: Nemesis.
Star Trek Beyond faltered because it cost too much, far too much, to just be seen as a quality middle-of-the-road Star Trek movie.