Star Trek Beyond: 25 Easter Eggs, References & In-Jokes
16. Paris
After Kirk returns from his first mission and expresses his boredom to Bones, he is called to a mission briefing when a mysterious alien captain appears at Yorktown with a distress call.
That meeting is presided over by Shohreh Aghdashloo's Commodore Paris - a late addition to the film added during reshoots. The name should ring bells, like her later relation Tom Paris (and his father Owen) she's a member of one of Starfleet's first families.
Kirk reveals in this meeting that he's planning on taking a cushy desk job out of boredom after three years. That, of course, is how long the Original Series lasted, and by the time he reappeared (in Star Trek: The Motion Picture), he was an admiral.