Star Fleet vessel, Enterprise as it appears on "Star Trek Beyond." (Photo : screengrab image/YouTube)
Paramount Pictures released the first official trailer for its upcoming movie, “Star Trek Beyond,” giving audiences a look at the rebooted franchise’s third installment.
The trailer was initially leaked online on YouTube on Dec. 14, Monday, featuring actors speaking their lines in dubbed German. Paramount followed the leak with its official trailer right after, this time in English.
In the trailer, the Star Fleet vessel encounters an armada of enemy ships that initially appear to be an asteroid belt. The small sentient alien spacecraft repeatedly ram into the Enterprise, forcing it into a crash landing on a strange planet,
During the crash, several of the crew, including Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and McCoy are separated after an emergency ejection.
The main characters find themselves on a possibly hostile planet without their ship or crew, and with more of the small alien ships approaching.
Spock and McCoy are cornered by two such spacecraft after they emerge from their ejection pods when Spock is suddenly beamed away by an unknown entity, leaving McCoy to face the ships alone.
Captain Kirk is also seen speeding through the planet’s rocky canyon on what appears to be a motorcycle.
The cast from the 2013 sequel, “Star Trek Into Darkness” reprise their roles in the upcoming film, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Zoe Saldana, and Anton Yelchin.
“Thor” actor Idris Elba joins them as a villainous alien while “Kingsman: The Secret Service’s” Sofia Boutella appears as an albino-like sword-wielding alien on the planet the Enterprise crash lands on.
Pegg plays Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott and co-wrote the screenplay, according to Wall Street Journal.
Justin Lin, who directed four of the "Fast & Furious" movies, has taken over the director's chair from J.J. Abrams, who produced and directed the previous two "Star Trek" films, according to Slash Film.
“Star Trek Beyond” is set to premiere in theaters on July 22, 2016.
