Star Trek Beyond: 25 Easter Eggs, References & In-Jokes
4. The Other Call-Backs
At times, Beyond feels like a Greatest Hits of Star Trek moments. To start with, the birthday scene exchange between Bones and Kirk is of course from The Wrath Of Khan.
The Enterprise being destroyed in the third film in this series mirrors the fact that it was in the third film in the first film series.
The saucer section of the Enterprise separating and crashing on a planet was very much reminiscent of the same thing happening in Star Trek: Generations' most impactful scene.
And the motorbike sequence might be incredibly contrived, but it at least calls back to his younger years in Star Trek (2009).