Earlier, Kirk had described the mission as “straightforward,” but then, though indubitably the bravest of commanders, he was never really the brightest. To be honest, the whole darn crew seems frayed, so it’s something of a blessing-or, at any rate, a bonding exercise-when the Enterprise, traversing a distant nebula to rescue a stranded vessel, is peppered and pulled apart.

That she might ever tire of making out with a Vulcan sounds illogical, but the heart has its reasons, even in zero gravity. Kirk is mulling over a promotion, to a grander but flightless role, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) has career plans of his own, possibly connected to the cooling of his relationship with Lieutenant Uhura (Zoë Saldana). At the start of the film, on his nine hundred and sixty-sixth day in deep space, he quietly confesses that “things have started to feel episodic.” We’re with you, Jim, especially those of us who are now sitting down to our thirteenth “Star Trek” movie. On the other hand, it does give Kirk a dose of pep and purpose. Even agnostics, unmoved by the remorseless reboots of the “Star Trek” franchise, may find themselves mourning the loss. Kirk (Chris Pine), safe in his ejection pod, gazing through the windshield at the flaming corpse of his beloved ship, which plunges down toward the crags of an unwelcoming planet. There’s a wonderful shot of Captain James T. In short, everybody’s favorite spacecraft has just turned into one big galactic Frisbee. First of all, its main thrusters are sheared off, which must-though I’m no expert-spell trouble for the warp drive, and then the tubular body drops away, leaving only the central saucer.

Barely half an hour has passed in “Star Trek Beyond,” and the USS Enterprise is already getting a haircut.

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