• “I ripped my shirt again”
  
• “If an earth girl says, ‘It’s me, not you’, it’s definitely you”
  
• “I am fully conscious, Doctor, I was merely contemplating mortality”
  
• “Put your phaser down!! please”
  
• “’Do you even know what it looks like!?’ ‘It’s that square thing, right?’ ‘It’s round!!’”
  
• “I have a nose for danger” *walks into a trap*
  
• “Montgomery Scotty”
  
• “’You gave your girlfriend radioactive jewelry, how romantic,’ ‘It’s harmless, but it does emit a strong signal,’ ‘You gave your girlfriend a tracking device!?’ *pause* ‘That was not the intention, but yes’”
  
• “Don’t break my music!”
  
• *Beastie Boys starts playing*
• “You know, Scotch was actually inwented by a leetle old lady in Russia”
  
• “’Sulu, can you fly this thing?’ ‘Are you kidding?’”
  
• “He likes that chair”
  

-large aliens actually being smol
-Kirk ripped his shirt
-So many Anton Yelchin scenes
-Seriously thank all 3 of the writers for the more equal screen time for the crew members this time around
-Bones actually gets to do more than speak witty one-liners
-Jaylah
-Everything about Jaylah was great. She’s not sexualized, she’s not there to be a romantic subplot, she’s smart and actually has a key roll in the film. Without her and her technology skills Yorktown would have been destroyed
-Jaylah’s traps
-Montgomery Scotty
-James T
-When Jaylah and Scotty go to investigate the set off trap and Scotty just had a rock to defend himself.
-Kirk asked for his crewmember’s help by name. She got no screentime and we as an audience don’t know her, but that crew is FAMILY and Kirk knows, trusts, and cares about everyone
-Uhura separating the ship
-The crew knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that Kirk was coming to rescue them
-Sulu’s family
-Chekov saying “inwented in Russia”
-Jaylah sitting in the captain’s chair
-Spock being delirious
-Spock volunteering Bones for a mission he knows Bones won’t like
-Kirk’s reaction to Spock volunteering Bones
-BONES’ reaction to Spock volunteering Bones
-All of the crew genuinely cares for each other and it shows
-No unnecessary Uhura/Spock drama
-Simon Pegg basically confirming that none of the crew is straight
-The USS Enterprise in warp
-beautiful cinematography all around
-NO LENSE FLARES
-Awesome new uniforms
-CLASSICAL MUSIC
-For once we actually get to explore strange new worlds instead of protecting earth- again

so going to star trek beyond last night literally exhausted me like I came back at like 10 and was out like a light at 11:30 it was AMAZING let me explain:

• simon pegg, the slick bastard, actually knows how to utilize an ensemble cast without it getting overly crowded or reducing everyone to cameos
  
• like, he knows how to write multiple interwoven storylines that showcase each character’s strengths and weaknesses and it’s great
• NO. FUCKING. LENS. FLARE.
• so many references to the original series, but not like the first movie where I got the sense they’d only seen like three, no, this was clearly written by someone who’d watched the whole series
• SUCH A GIANT FUCK-YOU TO THE CURRENT TREND OF MILITARISM IN THE STAR TREK MOVIES WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY HAVING MULTIPLE THRILLING ACTION SEQUENCES
• zero, I am telling you, ZERO fan service. no naked ladies lounging around for the camera. NONE.
• there is romance but it’s minimal and with the already-established couple of spock/uhura. NO LOVE INTERESTS FOR ANYONE ELSE.
• a really tight plot with humor and suspense, with almost no plot holes or hanging threads. like, every chekov’s gun gets fired.
• there’s a subplot about leonard nimoy spock prime that is so touching and moving and oh my god
• I NEARLY CRIED AT THE END. IT WAS AMAZING.
• also I’m just going to put this line in with zero context but spoiler alert anyway: “better to have died saving lives than to live having taken them”

it blows the other two movies out of the water, I’m saying this as a huge fan of the original series who thought the first movie was meh and the second was goddawful, GO SEE STAR TREK: BEYOND!