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Full Cast of Star Trek Beyond - Every Actor & Character In the Movie

With the future of Star Tr e k ’s Kelvin Timeline reboot movies in a seemingly-continuous limbo, here’s a list of every character who appeared in the most recent entry from 2016: Star Trek Beyond .

Around the early-to-mid 2000s, the Star Trek franchise was stagnating. Following Enterprise ’s cancellation and the box-office bombing of Paramount’s then-newest Trek film, Star Trek: Nemesis , the studio decided it was time for a change. 

A reboot was conceived under the leadership of J.J. Abrams who went on to direct two movies, 2009’s Star Trek and its 2013 sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness .

The third entry into this rebooted series, Star Trek Beyond , opened on July 22, 2016, to less-than-stellar financial results.

Every Character & Actor in Star Trek Beyond

Many fans argue that Star Trek Beyond is the strongest movie in the Kelvin Trilogy. It featured a quick-moving narrative, solid character beats, and even a Beastie Boys song or two. 

Here are all the characters that had a part to play in the threequel and their corresponding actor.

Chris Pine - Captain James T. Kirk

Chris Pine’s Jim Kirk opens the film feeling the weight of the mission. The USS Enterprise has been exploring deep space for two and a half years, and everything is starting to feel a bit rote for the Starfleet captain.

Little does he know that a trip beyond Starbase Yorktown will result in him and his crew getting way more than they bargained for.

Zachary Quinto - Commander Spock

Everybody’s favorite half-human, half-Vulcan science officer returns, marking Zachary Quinto’s third time in Spock’s pointy ears.

Gravely injured during the first act and stranded on an uncharted planet with the rest of the Enterprise Crew, Spock must rely on the medical expertise of Dr. McCoy to survive.

Karl Urban - Dr. Leonard McCoy

Karl Urban returns as the irascible Dr. McCoy, who is teamed with Spock for much of the film as they try to find a way to reunite with the crew in between sarcastic zingers.

During the final conflict of the film, Bones and Mr. Spock man the controls of one of Krall’s drone ships to help take out the rest of the villain’s massive fleet.

Zoe Saldana - Lt. Nyota Uhura

The Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy superstar Zoe Saldana comes back for another round as Lt. Uhura, who begins the film on the outs with her boyfriend, Spock.

After the Enterprise is destroyed and the crew is taken prisoner, Uhura must fight for her life against Krall and his forces, patching things up with her Vulcan suitor in the process.

Simon Pegg - Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott

In Star Trek Beyond , Simon Pegg’s Scotty uses his engineering genius to escape the crumbling Enterprise in a photon torpedo tube.

Once on the surface of the planet Altamid, Scott meets a fellow strandee named Jaylah, and the two join forces to help get the wreck of the long-lost USS Franklin up and running again.

John Cho - Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

John Cho’s Lt. Sulu, the Enteprise ’s helmsman, shares the bulk of his screentime with Saldana’s Uhura as the two try and free themselves from their captivity.

Sulu gets to put his piloting skills to the test when he’s called upon to fly the outdated Franklin off of its resting place on Altamid.

Anton Yelchin - Ensign Pavel Chekov

By the time of Beyond , the wide-eyed whiz kid Chekov has developed into a highly competent Starfleet officer, who pairs up with Captain Kirk throughout the movie’s second act.

The film is dedicated to actor Anton Yelchin, who tragically lost his life in a freak accident shortly before the theatrical release. The cast has spoken on many an occasion about how difficult it would be to make a fourth movie without him.

Idris Elba - Captain Balthazar Edison/Krall

An ex-MACO for the United Earth Military, Idris Elba’s Captain Edison fought in multiple conflicts with the Romulans as well as the Xindi.

But when the Federation was founded, his military skills and knowledge had no further use, and he felt abandoned by the very governing body he used to fight for. 

When his ship, the USS Franklin, crash-landed on Altamid, Edison took control of the planet’s technology, becoming the devious and disfigured villain known as Krall.

Sofia Boutella - Jaylah

Sofia Boutella’s Jaylah became marooned on Altamid as a young girl after her parents were killed by Krall.

In Beyond , Jaylah has taken up residence in the hull of the USS Franklin , a Federation vessel that went missing around the time of Captain Jonathan Archer’s missions in the mid-2100s.

Joe Taslim - Anderson Le/Manas

Joe Taslim plays Anderson Le, one of Edison’s crewmembers who was mutated into the evil Manas by Altamid’s energy transference tech.

Lydia Wilson - Jessica Wolff/Kalara

Much like her crewmate Le, Lydia Wilson’s Jessica Wolff survived on Altamid by becoming Kalara and serving as one of Krall’s underlings.

Sara Maria Forsberg - Kalara’s Translated Voice

Upon arriving in Yorktown to lure the Enterprise into Krall’s trap, Kalara is fitted with a universal translator collar which converts her alien speech into something more understandable. Sara Maria Forsberg provides the voice of the universal translator.

Deep Roy - Keenser

Deep Roy plays Scotty’s pal and fellow engineer Keenser in all three Kelvin timeline films. In Beyond , a caustic sneeze from Keenser helps the crew melt a lock to get out of a jam.

Melissa Roxburgh - Ensign Syl

An Enterprise crewperson, Melissa Roxburgh’s Syl hides a deadly weapon called the Arbonath in her cranial cavity thanks to some quick thinking on the part of Jim Kirk.

Shohreh Aghdashloo - Commodore Paris

The commanding officer of StarBase Yorktown, Shohreh Aghdashloo‘s Paris was actually added to the movie during reshoots. Some fans have also theorized that she’s an ancestor of Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager . 

Greg Grunberg - Commander Finnegan

Greg Grunburg, a longtime staple of J.J. Abrams-affiliated productions, plays Finnegan, an officer stationed in Yorktown’s command center. Fun fact: Finnegan is the alternate reality version of the character by the same name from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Shore Leave."

Danny Pudi - Fi’Ja

Community ’s Danny Pudi makes a cool (cool, cool, cool) cameo as Fi’Ja, a would-be assailant of Scotty’s who is put down by Jaylah.

Kim Kold - Zavanko

Savanko, another alien who tries to attack Mr. Scott on Altamid, is played by Danish bodybuilder Kim Kold.

Fraser Aitcheson - Hider

Fraser Aitcheson plays Hider, the third alien who comes after Scotty and is quickly dispatched by Jaylah.

Douglas Chapman - Sir Olden

Sir Olden, a Starfleet science officer portrayed by Douglas Chapman, is on the Enterprise when it’s brought down by Krall’s swarm ships.

Anita Brown - Tyvanna

One of the Enterprise ’s bridge officers, Anita Brown’s Tyvanna evacuated the ship once it was attacked.

Doug Jung - Ben

Doug Jung wrote Star Trek Beyond ’s screenplay alongside Simon Pegg. He also made a brief appearance in the movie as Ben, Lt. Sulu’s husband.

Dan Payne - Wadjet

A red-shirted Enterprise operations officer, Wadjet, was portrayed by Dan Payne.

Shea Whigham - Teenaxi Leader

Boardwalk Empire ’s Shea Whigam lent his voice to the Teenaxian who appeared in Star Trek Beyond ’s opening scene

Jeff Bezos - Alien Starfleet Official

Jeff Bezos (yeah, that Jeff Bezos) made an easy-to-miss cameo under heavy alien makeup as a Starfleet officer.

Carlo Ancelotti - Yorktown Doctor

Carlo Ancelotti, the Italian football manager, also made a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance as a doctor on Starbase Yorktown. He reportedly got the role because he’s friends with Zoe Saldana.

Will Star Trek Beyond Get a Sequel?

Ever since Beyond was released in cinemas in 2016, various attempts at making another sequel have been announced and subsequently shelved.

As the main cast members are typically quite busy, it would be something of a Herculean task to get all their schedules aligned so that they could work on a fourth Kelvin timeline film.

Anything’s possible, however, with Paramount's top brass claiming that they wish to move the Star Trek franchise back into features alongside its healthy TV presence.

Star Trek Beyond is available for purchase where ever movies are sold.

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"There's no relative direction in the vastness of space," a Starfleet high mucky-muck tells  Enterprise  Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) in "Star Trek Beyond." "There's only you." She's asking him whether he wants to give up his captain's seat for a chance at a powerful desk job on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, a year younger than his father was when he died. Her language is meant to spur Kirk to look inward, and for a moment we might hope that he will, and that the film will look inward with him. 

There's a precedent for this sort of thing. Where all of the TV incarnations of " Star Trek " were mainly about morality and philosophy, with characterization serving as a means of examining those dramatic values, most of the big-screen film versions, including the '80s and '90s versions of the flagship TV show, were mainly concerned with the heroes' personalities. The screenplays gave us detailed examinations of, say, the relationship between Kirk and his half-Vulcan first officer Mr. Spock, between Kirk and the United Federation of Planets, between Kirk and the Klingons who tormented his civilization and killed his only son, and between all the characters (Kirk especially) and the prospect of aging and death. It was more soap opera than space opera at times, but always fun to watch, sometimes moving. 

What undermines "Star Trek Beyond" is that it's ultimately not interested in taking a long look at the "you" of Kirk, Spock ( Zachary Quinto ), ship's doctor "Bones" McCoy ( Karl Urban ), communications officer Uhura ( Zoe Saldana ), and the rest of the NCC-1701 crew. Sure, it nods in that direction. Even the worst "Star Trek" stories do. But in the end it's mostly a good big-budget sci-fi action movie that's been marinated in "Star Trek" flavor packets—and thus not terribly different from the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot or its sequel, " Star Trek Into Darkness ."

"Star Trek Beyond" pits the crew of the  Enterprise  against another bellowing megalomaniac ( Idris Elba ) who wants to punish the United Federation of Planets for its perceived sins. It's the best of the new "Trek" films, but it's still an unsatisfying effort if you want "Star Trek" to be something more than a military-minded outer space action flick, with familiar, beloved characters shoehorned into a standard mix of martial arts slugfests, close-quarters firefights, and scenes of starships and cities being shredded and burned. Advance publicity hyped "Star Trek Beyond" as a return to the original series' roots as a showcase for a bunch of eccentric personalities traveling the galaxy, ingeniously solving problems, and indulging in populist philosophizing about civilization and the frontier as they went along. But that's not what we get here—not really. 

Yes, there's a promising setup (the  Enterprise  crew is held hostage by a vicious bad guy who rules a backwater planet a la Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness"). And there are suggestions of classic "Star Trek" style action-plus-characterization-plus-cleverness, and pleasing performances by a cast that has settled into each others' rhythms, as a real-world naval crew would after years of sailing together. 

But the movie never delivers on its considerable promise because it's always in such a hurry to get to the next action scene. And aside from three magnificent setpieces—the first, crippling sneak attack by a fleet of tiny ships that swarm the  Enterprise  like explosive bees, and two vertigo-inducing chase-and-fight scenes in which geography goes all M.C. Escher on us—the action is not good enough to be the film's main course. Lin, who proved in the "Fast and Furious" series that he could do great or near-great action, here substitutes wobbly camerawork, chop-chop editing and rumbling sound effects for suspense and a sense of spatial design. It's a step up from the action in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movies, but that's not the sort of thing one should brag about. A climactic reprise of a certain overused Beastie Boys song might be the franchise's low point, rivaled only by the laughable credits sequence of "Star Trek V," which cut from a helicopter shot of a lean young stuntman scaling a craggy peak in the Pyrenees to a close-up of the 57-year-old star/director Shatner's meaty hand in a studio, gripping a fiberglas "rock."

Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's screenplay provides the right amount of homage (as when Kirk grumbles after an opening action scene that he ripped his shirt again), plus Spock/McCoy odd-couple banter and some marvelous, character-based laugh lines (Scotty demands that Kirk give an opinion on one of his engineering improvisations, because "if I mess it up, I don't want it to be just my fault"). There's psychological nuance, irony, even a political subtext (Elba's character, Krall, a reptilian Che Guevara-type who wants the galaxy's "frontier" to "push back" against the Federation's expansionism). Too bad none of these aspects are filled out with the detail they deserve. Krail's fire-and-brimstone sermonizing is turned to nonsense by a pointless and self-defeating third act "twist"—like we need another one of those after the boneheaded fan service of "Darkness"!—and there are points late in the film where "Star Trek Beyond" seems jolted by the sudden remembrance of things that it told us it was going to deal with but didn't. 

Uhura spends most of the movie in a prison camp. Kirk, Spock and even McCoy have human moments, but they spend too much of their screen time sprinting through hallways, firing phaser pistols, and piloting spaceships while yelling and grimacing in tight closeup, like the heroes of every other science fiction-flavored action movie projected in theaters recently. Krall and other characters allude to the Federation's fake-benevolent brand of imperialism, but unless you're familiar with examples from elsewhere in the "Star Trek" universe or got briefed by a super-fan before buying a ticket, you'll leave with no sense of whether the villains' grievances are legitimate, much less if you're supposed to feel mixed emotions at Kirk's inevitable triumph.  

Spock, whose home planet was destroyed by a renegade Romulan warlord in the first movie, suffers most from the filmmakers' preoccupation with  pew-pew-pew! a ction-adventure. For three movies now, Spock's been carrying a crushing load of survivor's guilt. The character's barely disguised Jewishness, brilliantly articulated by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original TV and movie series, is more pronounced in the new franchise: he's been turned into a holocaust survivor, part of a fragile Vulcan diaspora haunted by genocide. But the scripts seem scared of treating Spock's predicament with the seriousness it deserves, much less daring to put it at the center of a film. Here it's treated mainly as an explanation for why Spock can't seem to keep a relationship going with Uhura. The death of Leonard Nimoy is integrated into the story by having Vulcan diplomats inform Spock of the death of Ambassador Spock, an alternate-universe incarnation of the character who dispensed advice and plot points to new Spock whenever the screenwriters painted themselves into a corner. The film's method of mourning Nimoy's Spock makes the Spockus ex machina  thing worse. New Spock mourns classic Spock as if the two were dear friends who had dinner every Monday at the same Chinese restaurant.

The missteps of writing and direction are more depressing when you consider the excellence of the core cast. Quinto and Saldana give the Spock-Uhura relationship and their own spotlight moments a lot more than the film gives them. Pegg is a hoot as Scotty, colorful but never hammy, though we may justifiably raise a Spock-like eyebrow at all the times that the actor-screenwriter lets his character save the day. Pine's Kirk seems to be morphing seamlessly into Shatner's, complete with surprising pauses and intonations, but he's more credible as a strong, respected leader; watch how the actor grows more calm and friendly whenever Kirk's bridge crew is becoming more agitated. Elba is such a strong presence throughout, even near the end, that it's a shame Krall is never granted the depth and complexity that his character keeps threatening to disclose. 

At this point it's worth asking what, if anything, this franchise is good for besides generating cash for Paramount and its above-the-line talent. Everything that made the original TV series and its follow-ups, small- and big-screen, seem so open-hearted, intelligent and playful is marginalized to make room for hyperactively edited action scenes and displays of hardware and production design. These are technically state-of-the-art but ultimately not all that different from what you see in most other CGI-driven action pictures, superhero as well as sci-fi—long, loud spectacles that are filled with people fighting, blowing up cities and planets, and crashing things into other things, instead of finding some other, more surprising way to move the plot along. What's the point of giving up pleasures that the "Star Trek" franchise is good at providing, to make more room for pleasures that most big-budget science fiction and fantasy already give us, month after month and year after year? Why boldly go where everyone else is already going? 

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.

120 minutes

Chris Pine as Kirk

Zachary Quinto as Spock

Karl Urban as Bones

Zoe Saldana as Uhura

Simon Pegg as Scotty

John Cho as Sulu

Anton Yelchin as Chekov

Idris Elba as Krall

Sofia Boutella as Jaylah

Deep Roy as Keenser

Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus

Writer (television series "Star Trek")

• Gene Roddenberry

Writer (uncredited)

• Roberto Orci
• Patrick McKay
• John D. Payne

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• Stephen F. Windon
• Greg D'Auria
• Dylan Highsmith
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Steven Sprung
• Michael Giacchino

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2016 Directed by Justin Lin

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

Chris Pine Zachary Quinto Karl Urban Zoe Saldaña Simon Pegg John Cho Anton Yelchin Idris Elba Sofia Boutella Joe Taslim Lydia Wilson Deep Roy Melissa Roxburgh Anita Brown Doug Jung Danny Pudi Kim Kold Fraser Aitcheson Matthew MacCaull Emy Aneke Shohreh Aghdashloo Greg Grunberg Jennifer Cheon Jarod Joseph Jeremy Raymond Harry Han Gina Brinkman Adam DiMarco Fiona Vroom Show All… Richard Laurence Doug Chapman Dan Payne Anthony Shim Andrea Yu Shea Whigham Christian Sloan Jake Huang Priya Rajaratnam Luka Hays Thomas Cadrot Jennifer W. Evans Roxanne Fernandes Jake Foy Jodi Haynes Nathan Jean Tarun Keram J.P. Mulcaster Edwin Rodriguez Alex Rose Polina Soldatova Lia Lam Ian Nsenga Sara Forsberg Jeff Bezos Christian Mandel Carlo Ancelotti

Director Director

Producers producers.

J.J. Abrams Bryan Burk Roberto Orci Ron Ames Justin Lin Josh Henson Helen Pollak Vivek Pundir Stewart Bethune

Writers Writers

Simon Pegg Doug Jung

Casting Casting

Jennifer Page Miranda Davidson Alyssa Weisberg April Webster Yesi Ramirez Corinne Clark

Editors Editors

Dylan Highsmith Steven Sprung Greg D'Auria Kelly Matsumoto

Cinematography Cinematography

Stephen F. Windon

Assistant Directors Asst. Directors

Nick Satriano Misha Bukowski Douglas Plasse

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Dana Goldberg David Ellison Lindsey Weber Tommy Harper Jeffrey Chernov

Lighting Lighting

Christopher Prampin David McClung David Tickell Richard MacDonald Trevor Gemma Aaron Stewart Jeff Zwicker Tim Heller Greg Etheredge Joe Papp Martin Tichy Matt Young Michael Hanna

Camera Operators Camera Operators

Riki Butland Kevin McGill Geoffrey Haley Stephen Maier Dean Heselden Peter Wilke

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Dale H. Jahraus Davide Tiraboschi

Production Design Production Design

Thomas E. Sanders

Art Direction Art Direction

Lauren E. Polizzi Salim Alrazouk Dan Hermansen Victor James Martinez Don MacAulay Andrew Li Harry E. Otto Natasha Gerasimova Simon Lee Travis Witkowski Jeremy Stanbridge Kris Bergthorson Milena Zdravkovic Uzair Merchant Sean Goojha Stephen Christensen Denny Dugally Tim Flattery Hyein Ki Peter Bodnarus Mira Caveno

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Lin MacDonald Randall D. Wilkins Sonya Savova Tex Kadonaga Bryan Sutton Jeff Markwith Nancy Anna Brown Joe May John Burke Joe Wolkosky Sandy Walker Jamie Jonasson Timothy M. Earls Robert Woodruff Andrew Lee McConnell Samuel J. Tell Liz Goldwyn Callum Webster Easton Michael Smith Jim Ramsay Peter Stratford

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Andy Taylor Ryan Tudhope Jenna Kerr Peter Chiang Ron Ames Stefano Trivelli Kevin Baillie Kondareddy Suresh Dane Allan Smith Devin Fairbairn Sean Stranks Manuel Almela Nicholas Symons Michael Lum Nick Hiatt Sean Hargreaves Jeremy Stewart Stephen Painter Abhijit Parsekar Raymond Chen Pauline Duvall Abhishek More Scott Mitchell Adam O'Brien-Locke Michael Grobe Tiffany Wu Chrysta Marie Burton Gladys Tong Geng Li Alain Lachance Annie Normandin Viktor Müller Ara Khanikian Neville Page

Title Design Title Design

Stunts stunts.

Cameron Hilts Jose L. Vasquez Ali Dunn Mike Gunther Brian Avery Don Lew Monique Ganderton Alice Ford Lars Grant Christopher Gordon Nilo Ghajar Lani Gelera Brent Connolly Andrew Emilio DeCesare Mark Chin Alvin Chon Andrew Chin Byron Brisco Rob 'Sluggo' Boyce Trevor Addie Brett Armstrong Marcus Aurelio Tyson Arner Keanu Lam Reagan Sieg Kimani Ray Smith Chad Sayn Alex Schoenauer Kye Walstrom Brennan Walstrom Mathew Yanagiya Breanna Watkins Jason Bell

Composer Composer

Michael Giacchino

Sound Sound

Stephen P. Robinson Eliot Connors Peter Brown Lee Gilmore Frank A. Montaño Shelley Roden Blake Collins Joe Dzuban John Sanacore John Roesch Daniel S. Irwin Andrea Gard Scott Curtis Jon Taylor James Ashwill David Husby John T. Cucci David Lee Fein Ann Scibelli Dan O'Connell

Costume Design Costume Design

Sanja Milković Hays

Makeup Makeup

Joel Harlow Richard Alonzo

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Robert A. Pandini

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• Physical 12 DVD, Blu ray
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New Zealand

• Theatrical M/12

Russian Federation

• Premiere 16+

South Korea

• Theatrical 7
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Switzerland

• Physical 12 DVD
• Theatrical PG-13
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• Theatrical 12+

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 4

slick, self-contained, and has the best music cue of any blockbuster this year. by the standards of summer 2016, it might as well be the sistine chapel.

and then someone asked me if it was "good." and i said "good? GOOD? it made me want to stand up and shout "REMEMBER MOVIES!?!?" these things are relative, people. STB is to Warcraft what Chris Pine is to *me.*

everyone is super charismatic. i liked that nothing really matters. i liked that there's no sense of needing to connect it to a bigger mythos. i liked that the *constant* fan service was barely perceptible for noobs like me (super trekkie Jordan Hoffman helped ID all the references for me afterwards). much of the action is jumbled and the villain is a bit of an afterthought (what else is new?), but at least he enters the fray with panache.

see you, space cowboys.

Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 7

I watched it again with Justin Lin commentary and came to a brain-melting realization: There is a foolproof way to determine if a modern Star Trek will be good.

If Chris Pine’s hair is parted to the right, as in Star Trek and Star Trek Beyond , the movie will be good.

If Chris Pine’s hair is parted to the left, as in Star Trek Into Darkness , the movie will be bad.

Henceforth, this shall be known as The Pine Directive .

Review by Evan ★★★★ 8

Rest in Peace Anton Yelchin. I am so glad he was very much apart of this movie and got a lot of screen time.

I've got to tip my hat to you Justin Lin. This is what a summer blockbuster is all about. Star Trek Beyond is full of fantastic characters. There are so many great character moments through out the film. Several laughs to be had. Plenty of awesome action set pieces. A good story (Simon Pegg's writing was aces). And most importantly, it's fun as hell. I was never bored once. When there wasn't action, we were getting great character moments and fun banter. I really love this cast. Everyone had such great chemistry with one another. This…

Review by Lucy ★★½ 8

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Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 9

Still love this one. It feels like the most comfortable of the Kelvin films — and at the same time the fact that the actors and creators might be feeling a little complacent is woven into the story. 

I know I have a soft spot for very meta films that interrogate their own purpose, but this one does that really well. (It’s also super timely and allegorical, another way it carries forward the tradition of the original series.) Justin Lin is a much more exciting director than Trek usually gets; he’s looking at this stuff from a new angle and that’s very much reflected onscreen (I love the shot of the Enterprise taking off from space dock from the perspective of the ship looking back at the Franklin.) Most underrated Trek movie ever?

Review by Angela Ferraguto ★★★★★ 2

I will fight for this movie any day for so many reasons. The villain is a compelling foil, our hero is humanized by high-functioning depression, the crew still gets a chance to shine, the team up pairings work, the pacing is rock solid, the action is so chaotic and exciting but I never lose sense of place.

But I'd be fucking lying if the first words out of my mouth in defense aren't "THE SHIP SURFS. ON THE BAD GUYS. LIKE A HALF PIPE."

Review by Diego Crespo ★★★★½ 1

Through the power of the Beastie Boys and friendship anything is possible.

Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 16

Wow. The irony is stellar.

Back when it was announced that Abrams was going to reinvigorate Star Trek, I (yes, I'm a huge Trekkie) was optimistic. Turns out I was right as Abrams' Star Trek was a great tribute to the show and the Trek universe.

Then Into Darkness happened which was more of the same. Actually, it was hardly a movie, more a show reel of fan servicing highlights. Doing that once is fine, it opens up new possibilities, doing it twice is just lazy.

So here's the third film. No more Abrams in the director's seat, a script co-written by one of the cast, not a hint of tribute-itis in sight and what we get is one of…

Review by Adam Kempenaar ★★★ 19

Not because the Federation is really eager to send its best captain and starship on a ridiculously risky mission they know almost nothing about.

Not because Idris Elba is fully utilized as the villain, or that his worldview and rationale for universal destruction make much sense or matter.

Not because it's that much fun to watch the Enterprise get systematically shredded, or that the swarming action scenes match the "zen chaos" (h/t Josh Larsen) that Lin has offered elsewhere.

Because fan service was (seemed to be?) kept to a minimum.

Because even though Lin is breathlessly intent on pure action escapism over commentary about "the times we live in," you can't dismiss its egalitarian spirit and optimism despite the times…

Review by sophie ★★★½

the ‘sabotage’ scene > hitchcock’s entire filmography

Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 3

It’s been a while since the crew of the Starship Enterprise visited a strange new world in search of new life and civilizations. The Star Trek of television was full of strange new worlds; the Enterprise seemed to discover one every single week. The Trek movies, so focused on special effects, violence, and intricate revenge plots, have frequently strayed from Trek ’s original mission. And while there’s plenty of action and excitement in Star Trek Beyond , there’s also a clear attempt to return this series to its core principles: Exploration, diplomacy, teamwork, and the hope for a better tomorrow. After the missteps of the punishingly bleak and the unfortunately rehashy Star Trek Into Darkness , it’s a necessary and welcome course correction; a Star Trek back into the light.

Full review at ScreenCrush .

Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 4

Basically Into Darkness only, you know, graceful and self contained instead of dour busyness cluttering frame after frame and referential setbacks. Justin Lin links TOS's color and adventure with the modern sensibility of JJ's Trek, and it's essentially a perfect balance until it decides to overstay its welcome (the final climax is ooooooooof). But until then, Beyond offers some of the most balletic, vivid set-pieces in a recent sci-fi fantasy (Lin loops and loops for dizzying effect, vibrant hues strobe in and out, warfare is fought in the expanse of space and it's still claustrophobic); reconfiguring the past (ie: the utter bullshit of Into Darkness ) until it literally crashes back to its roots. In the wasteland known as summer 2016, this is a goddamned marvel, never stopping but unafraid to take in all the exotic sights and sounds. Pure and simple.

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Remembering John G. Trimble

StarTrek.com honors the luminary whose contributions saved the Star Trek universe.

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StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of John G. Trimble, who passed away the morning of April 19, 2024, as confirmed by his daughter Lora Boem in a post .

Star Trek and fandom as we know it all stems from the efforts and passion of John and his wife Bjo Trimble , the couple who launched a grassroots letter writing campaign to Save Star Trek following NBC’s cancellation of the Original Series, resulting in a third season. With enough episodes then, Star Trek was able to enter syndication, propelling it into a phenomenon that warranted an animated series in 1973 and big-budget feature in 1979.

John and Bjo Trimble, in 2016, were brought on stage at Star Trek Las Vegas in celebration of the 50th anniversary, and the Star Trek franchise team surprised and honored them with a painted portrait of them by artist JK Woodward.

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Recalling their efforts after a visit to the Original Series set , following the 50th anniversary honor, John Trimble told StarTrek.com, "When we saw the change in the cast and crew during the filming of 'The Deadly Years' from what it had been before, we knew something was going on. It had been a very up cast and crew, and now it was very down, the mood. We found out by going to craft services, the underground gossip source, that they were probably going to cancel the show after the second season. We had to leave and go back to Oakland, where we lived at the time, and on the way, we were talking about what a change it had been in the cast. I turned to Bjo and I said, 'There ought to be something we can do about that,' knowing full well that that was throwing down the challenge."

The couple immediately sprang into action. John Trimble added, "We spent the rest of the trip going up the Central Valley, before Interstate 5, back to Oakland, discussing how to do it and putting together the Save Star Trek campaign."

Bjo Trimble credited John for building out the framework of their grassroots campaign, "We knew, of course, we were going to have to both mail letters. John went down to the post office, learned all about mail rules, and brand new was the zip code system. They told us, flat out, that if material wasn't zip coded it wouldn't go out as bulk mail, that it would just sit in the post office. John got all the books in those days, and it was stacks of them, and learned about the zip code rules. And we came home and put those into effect when we mailed out letters. John was downstairs with a hand-cranked mimeograph machine, turning out the letters, which we still have a copy or two. We folded them, labeled them and stamped them, and put them in bulk mail. He was doing a whole bunch of the physical work, the grunt work. I was more getting people over to help us. It was actually wonderful. We would work the volunteers hard all weekend. John was everywhere; he was the one who ran the errands. He's the one who lifted, toted, and basically it simply was not possible for me to do it alone. This is why we're a pair."

The decades following their legendary writing campaign, John and Bjo Trimble remained ambassadors for science fiction, the space program, and the Society of Creative Anachronism. The pair continued to attend Star Trek premiere and events, meeting fellow fans and sharing their enthusiasm for each new iteration of Star Trek and generation of fandom, including last year’s Star Trek: Picard Season 3 red carpet premiere in Hollywood, CA.

The entire Star Trek family sends their condolences to Trimble’s family, friends, and loved ones around the world.

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‘Heroes’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

NBC’s Heroes was packed with shocking twists and turns that still have fans reeling, years after the show’s 2010 finale.

The show, which ran for 4 seasons from 2006 to 2010, followed seemingly ordinary people who discover that they have supernatural abilities and are forced to band together to prevent life-changing disasters. The successful NBC series – which received 14 Emmy nominations during it’s time on air – starred several notable stars including Hayden Panettiere , Jack Coleman , Milo Ventimiglia , Kristen Bell, Leonard Roberts , Ali Larter and more.

More than a decade after the finale’s end, Roberts opened up about his post- Heroes experience and described “tension” between him and Larter, his on screen wife.

“I was tarnishing her brand,” Roberts alleged in a lengthy Variety essay, recalling the day he found out he was being written off the show. “In a short voicemail message, [creator Tim Kring ] said that due to ‘the Ali Larter situation,’ when the show returned for Season 2, audiences would learn that [my character] had died, and that I was free to call him if I wanted to talk. I was stunned.”

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Larter later issued a statement in response to Roberts’ allegations, noting that she was “deeply saddened” and “heartbroken” by his description of their working relationship. “I am truly sorry for any role I may have played in his painful experience during that time and I wish him and his family the very best,” she told Us Weekly  at the time.

Keep scrolling to find out what Panettiere, Ventimiglia and more Heroes alums are doing now:

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'Heroes' Cast: Where Are They Now?

NBC’s Heroes was packed with shocking twists and turns that still have fans reeling, years after the show’s 2010 finale. The show, which ran for 4 seasons from 2006 to 2010, followed seemingly ordinary people who discover that they have supernatural abilities and are forced to band together to prevent life-changing disasters. The successful NBC series – which received 14 Emmy nominations during it’s time on air – starred several notable stars including Hayden Panettiere , Jack Coleman , Milo Ventimiglia , Kristen Bell, Leonard Roberts , Ali Larter and more. More than a decade after the finale’s end, Roberts opened up about his post- Heroes experience and described “tension” between him and Larter, his on screen wife. “I was tarnishing her brand,” Roberts alleged in a lengthy Variety essay, recalling the day he found out he was being written off the show. “In a short voicemail message, [creator Tim Kring ] said that due to ‘the Ali Larter situation,’ when the show returned for Season 2, audiences would learn that [my character] had died, and that I was free to call him if I wanted to talk. I was stunned.” Larter later issued a statement in response to Roberts’ allegations, noting that she was “deeply saddened” and “heartbroken” by his description of their working relationship. “I am truly sorry for any role I may have played in his painful experience during that time and I wish him and his family the very best,” she told Us Weekly  at the time. Keep scrolling to find out what Panettiere, Ventimiglia and more Heroes alums are doing now:

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Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet)

Following her four seasons on Heroes , Panettiere went on to star as Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT drama Nashville from 2012 to 2018. She is also known for her roles in 2000’s Remember the Titans , 2006’s Bring It On: All or Nothing , 2009’s I Love You, Beth Cooper , 2011’s Scream 4 and 2023’s Scream 6 . While working on Heroes , Panettiere sparked a two-year romance with costar Milo Ventimiglia until they called it quits in 2009. She later moved on with Wladimir Klitschko , who proposed in October 2013 . They welcomed daughter Kaya in October 2014 and ended their engagement four years later.

Panettiere started dating Brian Hickerson in August 2018 but the pair split two years later after a dispute led to Hickerson’s second arrest for domestic violence charges.

Jack Coleman (Noah Bennet)

Previously known for a six-year stint on Dynasty in the 1980s, Coleman portrayed Claire Bennet’s father, Noah, on the supernatural NBC series. He later secured recurring roles as State Senator Robert Lipton on The Office from 2010 to 2013 and as United States Senator William Bracken on Castle from 2012 to 2015.

Coleman is married to Beth Toussaint and the couple share daughter Tess.

Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli)

Ventimiglia was a major teen heartthrob in the mid-2000s after playing Rory Gilmore’s misunderstood love interest Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls , a role he reprised in Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life in 2016. After Heroes introduced him to a broader audience, Ventimiglia went on to star in 2013’s Mob City, 2015’s The Whispers and This is Us from 2016 to 2022. He also appeared on the big screen in 2012’s That’s My Boy , 2013’s Kiss of the Damned , 2014’s Grace of Monaco , 2017’s Devil’s Gate , 2018’s Creed II and 2019’s The Art of Racing in the Rain .

In October 2023, Us Weekly confirmed that Ventimiglia tied the knot with Jarah Mariano earlier that year.

Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins)

Apart from Heroes, Roberts is known for playing Sean Taylor in 2002’s Drumline and Forrest Gates in season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , which aired in 1999. He went onto star in several TV shows after Heroes , including 2013’s The Client List , 2016’s The People v. O.J. Simpson , Mom from 2017 to 2018, 2019’s 9-1-1 , Charmed from 2020 to 2022, 2022’s All American: Homecoming and 2023’s Goosebumps . In December 2020, Roberts made headlines after claiming that he felt singled out as a Black actor on Heroes and noted there was tension with costar Ali Larter, which resulted in him being fired from the series.

Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura)

After appearing on Heroes , Oka starred on CBS' Hawaii Five-0 remake as Doctor Max Bergman from 2010 to 2017 and later reprised the role in 2019. Aside from TV, Oka also starred in 2011’s Friends with Benefits , 2013’s Jobs , 2017’s Death Note , 2018’s The Meg , 2019’s Spies in Disguise and 2022’s Bullet Train .

Ali Larter (Niki Sanders/Tracy Strauss)

Following her appearance in Heroes, Larter starred in 2014’s Legends , 2016’s Pitch and The Rookie from 2019 to 2020. The Final Destination actress also appeared on the big screen in 2014’s Lovesick and You’re Not You , 2015’s The Diabolical , 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter , 2021’s The Last Victim and 2022’s The Hater .

Larter tied the knot with Hayes MacArthur in August 2009 and the twosome went on to welcome son Theodore and daughter Vivienne in 2010 and 2015, respectively.

Zachary Quinto (Gabriel Gray)

In 2009, Quinto took over the role of Spock from the late Leonard Nimoy in J.J. Abrams’ modern Star Trek adaptation, which also starred Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana . He reprised the role in sequels Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond in 2013 and 2016, respectively. Aside from his work in Star Trek , Quinto also appeared in 2011’s Margin Call , 2015’s Hitman: Agent 47 , 2016’s Snowden and 2018’s Hotel Artemis . On TV, Quinto starred on 2011’s American Horror Story: Murder House , 2012’s AHS: Asylum , 2019’s NOS4A2 and 2022’s AHS: NYC .

Aside from his work in the film industry, Quinto appeared on Broadway in 2013’s The Glass Menagerie and 2018’s The Boys in The Band.

Quinto began dating musician Miles McMillan in 2013, however, the twosome ended their relationship in 2019.

Kristen Bell (Elle Bishop)

Bell joined the cast of Heroes for its second and third seasons in 2007 and 2008, shortly after UPN’s Veronica Mars came to an end. Following her work on Heroes , Bell appeared as Jeannie van der Hooven in House of Lies from 2012 to 2016, Eleanor Shellstrop in The Good Place from 2016 to 2020, Molly Tillerman on Central Park from 2020 to 2022 and Anna Whitaker in 2022’s The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window . She has also starred in numerous films including 2009’s Couples Retreat , 2010’s When in Rome , 2010’s You Again , 2013’s Frozen , 2016’s The Boss and 2019’s Frozen II.

Bell tied the knot with Dax Shepard in October 2013 and the couple welcomed daughters Lincoln and Delta in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli)

Pasdar appeared on Heroes as Nathan Petrelli from 2006 to 2009. Following his stint on the show, he appeared in The Lying Game from 2011 to 2013, Avengers Assemble from 2013 to 2017 and Supergirl from 2017 to 2018.

Pasdar announced in 2017 that he Natalie Maines of The Chicks were divorcing after 17 years of marriage . The pair share two sons, Jackson and Beckett, born in 2001 and 2004, respectively.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh)

After starring on Heroes from 2006 to 2010, Ramamurthy appeared in Covert Affairs from 2010 to 2012, Beauty & The Beast from 2013 to 2014, The Flash from 2019 to 2023 and Never Have I Ever from 2020 to 2023.

Ramamurthy is married to Olga Sosnovska and the twosome share daughter Halina and son Alex, born in 2005 and 2008, respectively.

Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman)

Grunberg starred as Matt Parkman on Heroes from 2006 to 2010 and went on to star on The Client List from 2012 to 2013. He has also appeared in 2013’s Big Ass Spider! , 2014’s Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife , 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens , 2016's Star Trek Beyond , 2018’s A Star Is Born , 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker , 2020’s M ax Reload and the Nether Blaster and 2022’s The Fabelmans .

Grunberg is married to Elizabeth Dawn Wershow and the couple share three sons together: Jake, Ben and Sam born in 1996, 1999 and 2003, respectively.

James Kyson (Ando Masahashi)

Since Heroes concluded in 2010, Kyson has guest starred in several shows including Hawaii Five-0 in 2011, Adventure Time in 2012 and 2016, NCIS: Los Angeles in 2016 and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders in 2017.

He has been married to Jamee Kyson since 2015.

Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli)

Aside from Heroes , Rose starred on How I Met Your Mother from 2006 to 2014 and 2017’s Trial & Error . Since 2010, she has appeared in various films as well including 2011’s Take Me Home and 2014’s Muffin Top: A Love Story.

Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders)

Following the end of Heroes , Gray-Cabey went on to pursue higher education at Harvard University before reprising his role of Micah in 2015’s Heroes Reborn miniseries and starring in Code Black from 2016 to 2018. The actor also appeared on P retty Little Liars: The Perfectionists in 2019 and All American from 2021 to 2023.

Malcolm McDowell (Daniel Linderman)

McDowell starred on Heroes from 2006 to 2007 and went on to appear in Metalocalypse from 2007 to 2012, Phineas and Ferb from 2008 to 2014, Franklin & Bash from 2011 to 2014, Mozart in the Jungle from 2014 to 2018 and Gossip Girl from 2021 to 2023. He has also starred in numerous films such as 2008’s Doomsday , 2010’s Easy A , 2011’s The Artist and 2019’s Bombshell.

McDowell was married to Margot Bennett from 1975 to 1980 and later moved on with Mary Steenburgen in 1978. The twosome welcomed daughter Lilly and son Charlie in 1981 and 1983, respectively, before divorcing in 1990. Following his divorce, McDowell married Kelley Kuhr in 1991 and the couple welcomed sons Beckett, Finnian and Seamus, born in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively.

Stephen Tobolowsky (Bob Bishop)

Following his role on Heroes from 2007 to 2008, Tobolowsky went on to star in Californication from 2011 to 2014, The Goldbergs from 2014 to 2023 and 2023’s Lopez vs Lopez . Tobolowsky has appeared on the big screen as well in 2009’s The Time Traveler’s Wife , 2010’s Buried , 2012’s The Lorax , 2014’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman and 2023’s Candy Cane Lane. He is also the host of his own podcast, The Tobolowsky Files.

Tobolowsky is married to Ann Hearn and the couple share two children.

George Takei (Kaito Nakamura)

The Star Trek alum appeared on Heroes from 2007 to 2010 and went on to star in Supah Ninjas from 2011 to 2013, The Neighbors from 2013 to 2014 and various other guest starring roles. He also appeared in films such as 2011’s Larry Crowne , 2014’s To Be Takei and 2022’s Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank.

George has been married to Brad Takei since 2008.

Dania Ramirez (Maya Herrera)

Known for her work on Entourage and The Sopranos , Ramirez joined Heroes in season 2 and made her last appearance in season 3. Her next major roles were on Lifetime’s Devious Maids from 2013 to 2016, Once Upon a Time from 2017 to 2018, Tell Me a Story from 2018 to 2019, 2021’s Sweet Tooth and Alert: Missing Persons Unit from 2023 onwards. She has also appeared in films such as 2009’s The Devil’s Tomb , 2012’s Premium Rush , 2015’s Mojave , 2018’s Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay , 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level and 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

Ramirez married John Beverly “Bev” Land in February 2012 and the couple welcomed twins in 2013. (Land also shares son Kai from a previous marriage.)

Eric Roberts (Agent Thompson)

Julia Roberts’ brother only appeared briefly on the NBC series but his career spans decades in both television and film, including 2008’s The Dark Knight , 2014’s Inherent Vice and 2022’s Babylon.

Roberts shares daughter Emma Roberts with ex Kelly Cunningham and has two stepchildren: Keaton Simons and Morgan Simons . The Oscar nominee has been married to Eliza Garrett since 1992.

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Knuckles voice cast & live-action character guide.

The Knuckles TV show has released its first trailer, and here is a complete cast and character guide of the show's new and returning characters.

• Meet Idris Elba as Knuckles in the new Paramount+ series, bringing the iconic character to life with a mix of live-action and animation.
• The star-studded voice cast includes talented actors like Adam Pally, Edi Patterson, and Stockard Channing reprising their roles.
• Get ready for a new adventure with Knuckles, as he teams up with familiar faces like Sonic and Tails to take on a mysterious villain.

Knuckles , the Sonic the Hedgehog movie series spinoff show, is almost here, and here is a complete guide of the series' voice cast and live-action characters. Knuckles is one of the most anticipated shows on Paramount Plus' 2024 slate , with the series combining live-action and animation in order to bring the world of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie series to the streaming service. Due to the connection between the two shows, Knuckles will feature some major stars, with many of the actors from the movie series reprising their roles in the spin-off show.

Knuckles the Echidna is one of the most recognizable characters from SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, with him first appearing in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 1994. Knuckles has gone on to become an integral part of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, with him being one of the titular blue blur's best friends and the stone-faced brawler of the group. Knuckles made his movie series debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , and now that the first trailer for Knuckles is out , many are excited to see him return in the now-released spinoff show on Paramount+.

Idris Elba As Knuckles

Date of birth: september 6, 1972.

Active Since: 1994

Actor: Idris Elba, 51, is an English actor who was born in London, England in 1972, with him going on to become an A-list actor who has proven to be successful in all kinds of different genres. Idris Elba took on various stage and television roles throughout the 1990s, leading to him scoring a supporting role on Law & Order in a 2001 episode. This led to him being cast on HBO's The Wire , with the acclaimed series being his big break, one that still remains one of his most well-known roles to his day.

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Character : Knuckles the Echidna is one of the most important characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, with him being a warrior member of the Echidna Tribe who was deceived into working with Dr. Robotnik , believing that he was the key to finding the Master Emerald . Knuckles started out as an adversary of Sonic and Tails, with him later joining them after discovering Robotnik's true motives. In Knuckles , the titular Echidna now lives with the same human family as Sonic and Tails after making a vow to them, with him going solo to take down an all-new threat.

Adam Pally As Wade Whipple

Date of birth: march 18, 1982.

Active Since: 2002

Actor: Adam Pally, 41, was born in New York City, New York in 1981, with him becoming a prolific comedian and actor throughout his professional career. Pally is a comedy writer and actor who started out contributing to the website Funny or Die , with him hosting the celebrity interview show Riding Shotgun with Adam Pally . Pally went on to have minor roles in major films like Iron Man 3 and Dirty Grandpa , and while he did appear in both Sonic the Hedgehog films, Knuckles will expand on his role even further.

Character: Adam Pally will be playing Wade Whipple, one of Green Hills' deputy sheriffs who has been portrayed as a bumbling coworker of James Marsden's Tom Wachowski in the previous two films. However, Knuckles is set to evolve the character of Wade, with Knuckles deciding to train him to become a true echidna warrior. However, it seems that Wade becomes caught up in Knuckles' newest conflict, with him joining the red echidna on a journey to take the new threat down.

Edi Patterson As Wanda Whipple

Date of birth: september 19, 1974.

Active Since: 1998

Actor: Edi Patterson, 49, was born in Texas City, Texas on September 19, 1974. The comedian and actor had her big break in the TV sketch comedy series The Underground , with her going on to have a prolific television career. Edi Patterson has been a frequent collaborator with Danny McBride, appearing in HBO series like Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones .

Character: In Knuckles , Edi Patterson plays Wanda Whipple, the sister of Wade Whipple. Wanda is an FBI agent who doesn't get along with her brother, although she does join him on his journey to Reno, Nevada.

Stockard Channing As Wendy Whipple

Date of birth: february 13, 1944.

Active Since: 1971

Actor: Stockard Channing, 80, was born in New York City, New York on February 13, 1944. Channing has had a prolific career in film and television, with her role as Betty Rizzo in Grease being her big break . Since then, Channing has appeared in beloved movies and TV shows like The West Wing , Batman Beyond , The Good Wife , and now Knuckles .

Character: In Knuckles , Stockard Channing plays Wendy Whipple, the mother to Wade and Wanda Whipple. Wendy immediately forms a close bond with Knuckles due to Knuckles' appreciation of her Jewish identity, with her joining her children and the echidna on thier journey to Reno.

Cary Elwes As "Pistol" Pete Whipple

Date of birth: october 26, 1962.

Active Since: 1979

Actor: Cary Elwes, 61, was born in Westminster, London, England on October 26, 1962. After having appeared in a few less successful films, Cary Elwes had his big break in 1987's The Princess Bride , where he played Westley. Elwes has gone on to appear in all kinds of popular projects, such as Glory , Robin Hood: Men in Tights , Twister , Saw , Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One , and more.

Character: In Knuckles , Cary Elwes plays "Pistol" Pete Whipple. Whipple is a famous bowling champion, but he is also Wade's father, with him having abandoned the family when Wade was a child.

Scott Mescudi As Agent Mason

Date of birth: january 30, 1984.

Active Since: 2003

Actor: Scott Mescudi, 40, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on January 30, 1984. Mescudi got his start as a musician, going by the stage name Kid Cudi, although he made his film big break in 2014's Need for Speed .

Character: In Knuckles , Scott Mescudi plays Agent Mason, a rogue GUN agent who works alongside Agent Willoughby in order to kidnap Knuckles and sell his powers on the black market.

Ellie Taylor As Agent Willoughby

Date of birth: november 4, 1983.

Active Since: 2011

Actor: Ellie Taylor, 40, was born in Brentwood, Essex on November 4, 1983. Taylor got her start in stand up comedy, with her making her big break on the comedy competition series Show Me the Funny . Taylor has appeared in a variety of stand up speicals and sketch comedy shows, but Knuckles is her biggest project yet.

Character: In Knuckles , Ellie Taylor plays Agent Willoughby, another rogue GUN agent who works to kidnap Knuckles and sell his quills for profit.

Rory McCann As The Buyer

Date of birth: april 24, 1969.

Active Since: 1999

Actor: Rory McCann, 54, is a Scottish actor who was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1969. McCann's first acting job was as an extra on the film Willow , which he was fired from. However, McCann was seriously able to rebound, with him going on to have major roles in shows like Shameless , Game of Thrones , and now Knuckles , as well as movies like Hot Fuzz and Jumanji: The Next Level .

Character: The trailer for Knuckles reveals that Rory McCann is playing a mysterious villain known only as " the buyer ," with very little being revealed about the character. It is known that the buyer used to work for Dr. Robotnik, with him going off on his own to attempt to steal Knuckles' powers, similar to Robotnik's plan in the first film. It is possible that the buyer may be hiding something, with many fans hoping that he has a bigger connection to a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 villain .

Christopher Lloyd As Pachacamac

Date of birth: october 22, 1938.

Active Since: 1961

Actor: Christopher Lloyd, 85, is an American actor who was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1938. Lloyd started out as a prominent theater actor, spending several decades working his way up the industry and eventually scoring several roles on Broadway. Lloyd made the transition to film in 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , with him then cementing his stardom in the TV series Taxi and the Back to the Future trilogy.

Character: Pachacamac is an elderly echidna who served as the warlord leader of the Echidna Tribe for many years , with Knuckles believing that he died during the Echidna Tribe's hunt for Longclaw in the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie . However, the Knuckles trailer revealed that Pachacamac is still alive and has seemingly made his way to Earth, with Knuckles presumably running into his former leader at some point during the series.

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Knuckles supporting cast & characters.

The Knuckles series also has an extensive supporting cast, and here is every other supporting character that appears in the new Paramount+ series.

• Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog
• Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Miles "Tails" Prower
• Tika Sumpter as Maddie Wachowski
• Julian Barratt as Jack Sinclair

Knuckles is a spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise created for Paramount+. Idris Elba reprises his role as Knuckles the Echidna in the action-adventure series, and the show will follow him on a new adventure as he meets new allies and faces new foes.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Scotty Actor Addresses How He's Making The Character More Authentic For Season 3

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be the first time a Scottish actor will play the role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, and new-ish recruit Martin Quinn wants to make sure he's doing it right. The actor recently revealed that during the filming for Season 3, he'd made suggestions about how to make his character more authentic and perhaps a bit less stereotypical than past iterations of the chief engineer. Naething wrong wi' that!

Quinn recently spoke to The BBC about following in the footsteps of Trek vets such as James Doohan and Simon Pegg in portraying Scotty, and his experience thus far on the show. Quinn first appeared during Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 2 ending and he'll have a larger presence in Season 3 of the upcoming Trek series . In the interview, the actor revealed some of the smaller ways he's trying to make the role feel more authentic during production, and the efforts being made by the writing staff. In his words:

They let me put in the word 'baw-heid' instead of 'turnip-heid. Maybe they think all Scottish people are farmers? But they were very gracious about it. And [the writers] are wanting to be authentic to Scotland as well, and that's really nice - not everyone's like that.

Martin Quinn and the writers have made some tweaks to make Scotty at least sound more Scottish, which is something fans from the country will likely appreciate, since even the best performative accent only goes as far as how valid the vocabulary is. I'd imagine we'll be seeing a lot more of the character in Season 3 and beyond, as showrunner Henry Alonso Myers previously said the goal was to put the original Star Trek characters on the ship before they become their actualized selves.

With the news that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was renewed for Season 4, Scotty will definitely have more time to become the miracle worker chief engineer that fans know too well. For a little while he'll have the support of his former instructor and current Enterprise chief engineer Pelia, played by the legendary actress Carol Kane . Martin Quinn seems to be enjoying the job so far, but did mention there are some hiccups in being one of the only Scottish actors on the crew:

I'm constantly having to enunciate because I don't think they know what I'm saying. It’s trying to find the balance, because it’s not just Scottish people watching this TV show, but I want to be as authentic as possible to how I speak.

I can't fault him for that, and seeing as Outlander is a hit show primarily set in Scotland, I think audiences outside of the country are able to adapt to his voice regardless. I'm eager to see him and the cast back in new episodes, and I'm still crossing my fingers we can get at least one episode released before 2025 .

Martin Quinn's quotes about keeping Scotty authentic are interesting, and it leads me to wonder what other ways TOS characters may change as they are introduced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . (Will Spock be "more Vulcan" or something?) That said, this change stems more from Quinn' attempting to correct the misguided attempts to create a character previously portrayed as Scottish, so it remains to be seen if other characters will change at all when they're brought in.

As fans wait for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, they can stream the previous two seasons with a Paramount+ subscription . Of course, they can also catch the final season of Discovery , which is streaming new episodes on Thursdays.

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Beyond Paradise confirmed for season 3 and special episode

Humphrey and Martha's story isn't over.

The BBC announced the exciting news about the Death in Paradise spin-off following its hugely emotional season finale on Friday (April 26).

"The response to series two has been fantastic. So much love goes into the making of the show, and we’re delighted that the audience have enjoyed it so much," said executive producer Tim Key.

"We can’t wait to get back to Shipton Abbott for another Christmas special and series to continue the story and learn more about our characters and the town they live in – I can promise that we’ll be making the viewers laugh, cry, laugh a bit more and then baffling them with a series of ingenious puzzles. There will also be a duck.”

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The second season of Beyond Paradise has continued to be a ratings winner for BBC One, with its opening episode attracting an impressive 7.5 million viewers thus far.

Friday's finale provided some resolution about the future of Shipton Abbott's station house following CS Charlie Wood's internal investigation, as well as an emotional decision for Martha and Humphrey about their future together.

The finale episode included Hollyoaks legend Jeff Rawle in a guest role as curator of the Shipton Abbott Museum, while Doctor Who 's Peter Davison recurred throughout the second season .

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" Beyond Paradise has become such a huge hit with millions of viewers across the UK. It’s a show that is absolutely on a roll, and we’re beyond pleased to bring more fiendishly clever mysteries from the Shipton Abbott team to the BBC," BBC Director of Drama, Lindsay Salt, said.

This renewal news for Beyond Paradise comes ahead of sweeping changes to the companion show Death in Paradise after Ralf Little recently departed as lead detective Neville Parker.

Death in Paradise and its spin-off, Beyond Paradise , both air on BBC One and stream on BBC iPlayer.

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