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The soundtrack to Star Trek Beyond, a 2016 Movie , track list, listen to the soundtrack, play 18 sample OST music & 3 trailer songs. View who sings all the songs used in the movie. Read scene descriptions when the film plays at the cinema.

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Star Trek Beyond official OST album tracklist, original motion picture score. Original release date: July 22, 2016 Label: Varese Sarabande Song previews provided courtesy of iTunes Original music composed by Michael Giacchino

1. Logo And Prosper https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/19/17/9d/19179dae-8088-9e71-df58-565ed03ca461/mzaf_2694584596190105781.plus.aac.p.m4a

2. Thank Your Lucky Star Date https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview20/v4/44/da/ec/44daec1f-ccb2-249a-8c3a-8c40295e082d/mzaf_5993383035155679023.plus.aac.p.m4a

3. Night On The Yorktown https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview30/v4/0d/85/33/0d85331f-b396-7689-06ee-9efd7aa4b4f9/mzaf_6467588203710531089.plus.aac.p.m4a

4. The Dance Of The Nebula https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/26/12/a1/2612a1cc-4cb8-a253-9d7e-3ce1288a77a9/mzaf_8108480046350141689.plus.aac.p.m4a

5. A Swarm Reception https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview60/v4/14/46/04/14460443-e9b6-5d77-db20-697a14c3cdb5/mzaf_8592220292563770818.plus.aac.p.m4a

6. Hitting The Saucer A Little Hard https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview60/v4/ad/7a/d2/ad7ad2aa-7ee5-a858-b68c-29bc05b14411/mzaf_5335851394738521411.plus.aac.p.m4a

7. Jaylah Damage https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview20/v4/02/84/36/02843629-8eed-f581-f78e-b3864d58cfb6/mzaf_6370566996609652567.plus.aac.p.m4a

8. In Artifacts As In Life https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview20/v4/e9/c4/51/e9c451c1-c860-a52a-a5ca-a4bd74c32dd3/mzaf_1738959789497183747.plus.aac.p.m4a

9. Franklin, My Dear https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview20/v4/cf/da/0a/cfda0aa7-1951-f398-51ef-e57ac5737b56/mzaf_8410543631451326305.plus.aac.p.m4a

10. A Lesson In Vulcan Mineralogy https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/2d/8d/12/2d8d12c1-2414-8780-131c-1aa532d7b24e/mzaf_5991668679945213516.plus.aac.p.m4a

11. MotorCycles Of Relief https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview30/v4/15/7a/af/157aaf74-7de5-ac6d-a790-a00460e62154/mzaf_4310421198998603732.plus.aac.p.m4a

12. Mocking Jaylah https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview30/v4/0d/90/b7/0d90b7fa-dc12-8abc-15e7-34e05202fcf1/mzaf_2733269164413515304.plus.aac.p.m4a

13. Crash Decisions https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/39/86/64/3986645e-eb96-8eae-d2dc-41c913aa7b80/mzaf_3174878075263976040.plus.aac.p.m4a

14. Krall-y Krall-y Oxen Free https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview60/v4/b0/03/bd/b003bd5f-9d6d-9937-6891-67ce3564ebb5/mzaf_4427008582675026074.plus.aac.p.m4a

15. Shutdown Happens https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/51/70/41/517041d9-3047-f453-01c9-f3ce776ba06a/mzaf_169962593765401879.plus.aac.p.m4a

16. Cater-Krall In Zero G https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/eb/48/1e/eb481e23-1d7f-489e-694c-6a2a5d15c95b/mzaf_3024282097296179033.plus.aac.p.m4a

17. Par-tay For The Course https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview18/v4/23/43/73/234373b9-5729-ea80-2c38-781147688212/mzaf_5645895636343381146.plus.aac.p.m4a

18. Star Trek Main Theme https://audio.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-000001/AudioPreview20/v4/90/4a/c6/904ac64e-be6b-fc77-1c16-5f5f4b6d8711/mzaf_1060874300495271146.plus.aac.p.m4a

Star Trek Beyond Film information Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Release date (wide): 22 July 2016 Runtime: 2h

Director: Justin Lin Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban

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Comic-con: ‘star trek beyond’ composer reveals what j.j. abrams was “adamant” he keep in the sequel.

Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino shares how he convinced Paramount to allow the score to be performed live at the film's world premiere in San Diego.

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Audiences may have never seen Michael  Giacchino , but they have definitely heard his work.

The Oscar-winning composer is responsible for the music in films like  Jurassic World , The Incredibles , Zootopia , Tomorrowland  and Inside Ou t. His next feature film is Star Trek Beyond , director Justin Lin’s franchise film that sees Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew’s return to their continued mission aboard the Enterprise.    

The world premiere of the third installment in Paramount’s space-set series will be taking place at Comic-Con on Wednesday night, outdoors on the San Diego waterfront, on an IMAX screen, with a live accompaniment of the Giacchino’s score.  

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“It is the most crazy tightrope walk. It is the first time it is ever being played and the first time it has ever being seen,”  Giachinno  tells  The Hollywood Reporter , ahead of the splashy event. 

The scores for J.J. Abram-directed  Star Trek and Star Trek  Into Darkness have been performed along with screening of the films at previous Comic-Cons, but this year marks the first time Giacchino’s  music will be performed along with the world premiere of a Star Trek movie.

“I have been pitching to do a premiere like this to several different studios for several different projects and it just never worked out,” he says. “A month ago we suggested it to Paramount and we said, ‘Look, we can do this. We have been doing this.'”

Paramount took them up on the offer and got the San Diego Symphony Orchestra on board, along with conductor Richard Kaufman.

Kaufman, who will be conducting about ninety musicians, was personally asked to head-up the orchestra by Giachhino . Of the score, the conductor said: “The drama, humor and action and the environment of outer space — Michael’s music really brings all of it to life. He uses the orchestra in an amazing way and makes it like a character in the film.”

Between the previous two  Star Trek  films, moviegoers have spent over four hours with the rebooted versions of Kirk, Spock (Zachary Quinto ),  Chekov (Anton Yelchin ),  Sulu (John Cho),  Uhura  (Zoe Saldana ) and Bones (Karl Urban), so Giachinno appreciated the new challenges that came with composing Beyond.

“What was great about this film is that it presented new opportunities to present new music, including new characters and different situations,” he says. Adding, “And it is the first of the new films that doesn’t head back to Earth for any reason.”

Who was Giachinno’s favorite new character to compose for? Sofia Boutella’s mysterious alien,  Jaylah .

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In spite of the new faces and change of scenery, the composer says that it was important that some things remain the same.

“The one thing we want to keep consistent — and J.J. has always been very adamant about this — is that we keep the main theme. Even when Justin came in he goes, ‘I definitely want that main theme.'”

Giacchino  goes on to say he enjoys writing the music for those big action sequences but he really loves composing the small, personal moments. Like Kirk’s birth in the first movie and his would-be death in the second. For this reason, his favorite character to compose for is the emotionally fraught Spock, played by  Quinto .

Giacchino explains: “There is something really wonderful about that character — he is split between two worlds. Everyone one of us, in one way or another, is split between two worlds. We have our private inner selves and our outer selves.” 

Star Trek Beyond hits theater nationwide July 22. As for what audience can expect to see in the movie, the composer says it will be a lot of what attracted fans to the original Star Trek TV show in the first place.

“ Star Trek for me has always been about the core feeling that a team is much more functional and effective together,” says  Giacchino . “[ Beyond ] feels like an adult, grown-up, more action packed version of an episode from the original show.”

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The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the te... Read all The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.

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• Goofs The amount of ships and soldiers that the enemy has in its swarm changes dramatically during the final battle, from a few thousand to tens/hundreds of thousands when they attack the station. However, previously in the film, it is stated that the planet has deep and large underground caverns so it is entirely possible that there were more ships underground. Also, the amount of soldiers that would be needed to pilot all the ships would be huge as it was shown that they contain at least one soldier in each ship. But when they were watching the video logs near the film's ending, Captain Edison clearly states that they found drones. It is quite possible that the bulk of the enemy fleet is made up of drones and controlled by the hive mind that the music disrupts.

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Commander Spock : If I may adopt a parlance with which you are familiar, I can confirm your theory to be horseshit.

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2016, Sci-fi/Adventure, 2h 2m

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A surprise attack in outer space forces the Enterprise to crash-land on a mysterious world. The assault came from Krall (Idris Elba), a lizard-like dictator who derives his energy by sucking the life out of his victims. Krall needs an ancient and valuable artifact that's aboard the badly damaged starship. Left stranded in a rugged wilderness, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the crew must now battle a deadly alien race while trying to find a way off their hostile planet.

Rating: PG-13 (Violence|Sequences of Sci-Fi Action)

Genre: Sci-fi, Adventure, Action, Fantasy

Original Language: English

Director: Justin Lin

Producer: J.J. Abrams , Bryan Burk , Roberto Orci

Writer: Simon Pegg , Doug Jung

Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 2016  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Oct 4, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $158.8M

Runtime: 2h 2m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Perfect Storm Entertainment, Skydance Productions, Sneaky Shark, Bad Robot, K/O Paper Products

Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Anton Yelchin

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Nice self-contained Star Trek episode, with a nice space station gravity skit, but otherwise not particularly profound in any way.

too long, too confusing, too unbelievable... but a fun ride nonetheless

I think this was the 3rd movie that the Star Trek reboot really needed. The 1st was riddled with time travel sci fi shenanigans while the 2nd was overwrought with exposition but this? This was a solid, good ol' action adventure that followed a tried and true formula. Which begs the question, what will be next? A repeat of this and the franchise may be branded as lazy, or not "Star Trek" enough. I just hope these films don't deteriorate into another overloaded Hollywood Sci Fi action-adventure. There's a balance of sophistication and fun still to be found on this "final frontier"

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"There's no relative direction in the vastness of space," a Starfleet high mucky-muck tells  Enterprise  Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) in "Star Trek Beyond." "There's only you." She's asking him whether he wants to give up his captain's seat for a chance at a powerful desk job on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, a year younger than his father was when he died. Her language is meant to spur Kirk to look inward, and for a moment we might hope that he will, and that the film will look inward with him. 

There's a precedent for this sort of thing. Where all of the TV incarnations of " Star Trek " were mainly about morality and philosophy, with characterization serving as a means of examining those dramatic values, most of the big-screen film versions, including the '80s and '90s versions of the flagship TV show, were mainly concerned with the heroes' personalities. The screenplays gave us detailed examinations of, say, the relationship between Kirk and his half-Vulcan first officer Mr. Spock, between Kirk and the United Federation of Planets, between Kirk and the Klingons who tormented his civilization and killed his only son, and between all the characters (Kirk especially) and the prospect of aging and death. It was more soap opera than space opera at times, but always fun to watch, sometimes moving. 

What undermines "Star Trek Beyond" is that it's ultimately not interested in taking a long look at the "you" of Kirk, Spock ( Zachary Quinto ), ship's doctor "Bones" McCoy ( Karl Urban ), communications officer Uhura ( Zoe Saldana ), and the rest of the NCC-1701 crew. Sure, it nods in that direction. Even the worst "Star Trek" stories do. But in the end it's mostly a good big-budget sci-fi action movie that's been marinated in "Star Trek" flavor packets—and thus not terribly different from the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot or its sequel, " Star Trek Into Darkness ."

"Star Trek Beyond" pits the crew of the  Enterprise  against another bellowing megalomaniac ( Idris Elba ) who wants to punish the United Federation of Planets for its perceived sins. It's the best of the new "Trek" films, but it's still an unsatisfying effort if you want "Star Trek" to be something more than a military-minded outer space action flick, with familiar, beloved characters shoehorned into a standard mix of martial arts slugfests, close-quarters firefights, and scenes of starships and cities being shredded and burned. Advance publicity hyped "Star Trek Beyond" as a return to the original series' roots as a showcase for a bunch of eccentric personalities traveling the galaxy, ingeniously solving problems, and indulging in populist philosophizing about civilization and the frontier as they went along. But that's not what we get here—not really. 

Yes, there's a promising setup (the  Enterprise  crew is held hostage by a vicious bad guy who rules a backwater planet a la Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness"). And there are suggestions of classic "Star Trek" style action-plus-characterization-plus-cleverness, and pleasing performances by a cast that has settled into each others' rhythms, as a real-world naval crew would after years of sailing together. 

But the movie never delivers on its considerable promise because it's always in such a hurry to get to the next action scene. And aside from three magnificent setpieces—the first, crippling sneak attack by a fleet of tiny ships that swarm the  Enterprise  like explosive bees, and two vertigo-inducing chase-and-fight scenes in which geography goes all M.C. Escher on us—the action is not good enough to be the film's main course. Lin, who proved in the "Fast and Furious" series that he could do great or near-great action, here substitutes wobbly camerawork, chop-chop editing and rumbling sound effects for suspense and a sense of spatial design. It's a step up from the action in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movies, but that's not the sort of thing one should brag about. A climactic reprise of a certain overused Beastie Boys song might be the franchise's low point, rivaled only by the laughable credits sequence of "Star Trek V," which cut from a helicopter shot of a lean young stuntman scaling a craggy peak in the Pyrenees to a close-up of the 57-year-old star/director Shatner's meaty hand in a studio, gripping a fiberglas "rock."

Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's screenplay provides the right amount of homage (as when Kirk grumbles after an opening action scene that he ripped his shirt again), plus Spock/McCoy odd-couple banter and some marvelous, character-based laugh lines (Scotty demands that Kirk give an opinion on one of his engineering improvisations, because "if I mess it up, I don't want it to be just my fault"). There's psychological nuance, irony, even a political subtext (Elba's character, Krall, a reptilian Che Guevara-type who wants the galaxy's "frontier" to "push back" against the Federation's expansionism). Too bad none of these aspects are filled out with the detail they deserve. Krail's fire-and-brimstone sermonizing is turned to nonsense by a pointless and self-defeating third act "twist"—like we need another one of those after the boneheaded fan service of "Darkness"!—and there are points late in the film where "Star Trek Beyond" seems jolted by the sudden remembrance of things that it told us it was going to deal with but didn't. 

Uhura spends most of the movie in a prison camp. Kirk, Spock and even McCoy have human moments, but they spend too much of their screen time sprinting through hallways, firing phaser pistols, and piloting spaceships while yelling and grimacing in tight closeup, like the heroes of every other science fiction-flavored action movie projected in theaters recently. Krall and other characters allude to the Federation's fake-benevolent brand of imperialism, but unless you're familiar with examples from elsewhere in the "Star Trek" universe or got briefed by a super-fan before buying a ticket, you'll leave with no sense of whether the villains' grievances are legitimate, much less if you're supposed to feel mixed emotions at Kirk's inevitable triumph.  

Spock, whose home planet was destroyed by a renegade Romulan warlord in the first movie, suffers most from the filmmakers' preoccupation with  pew-pew-pew! a ction-adventure. For three movies now, Spock's been carrying a crushing load of survivor's guilt. The character's barely disguised Jewishness, brilliantly articulated by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original TV and movie series, is more pronounced in the new franchise: he's been turned into a holocaust survivor, part of a fragile Vulcan diaspora haunted by genocide. But the scripts seem scared of treating Spock's predicament with the seriousness it deserves, much less daring to put it at the center of a film. Here it's treated mainly as an explanation for why Spock can't seem to keep a relationship going with Uhura. The death of Leonard Nimoy is integrated into the story by having Vulcan diplomats inform Spock of the death of Ambassador Spock, an alternate-universe incarnation of the character who dispensed advice and plot points to new Spock whenever the screenwriters painted themselves into a corner. The film's method of mourning Nimoy's Spock makes the Spockus ex machina  thing worse. New Spock mourns classic Spock as if the two were dear friends who had dinner every Monday at the same Chinese restaurant.

The missteps of writing and direction are more depressing when you consider the excellence of the core cast. Quinto and Saldana give the Spock-Uhura relationship and their own spotlight moments a lot more than the film gives them. Pegg is a hoot as Scotty, colorful but never hammy, though we may justifiably raise a Spock-like eyebrow at all the times that the actor-screenwriter lets his character save the day. Pine's Kirk seems to be morphing seamlessly into Shatner's, complete with surprising pauses and intonations, but he's more credible as a strong, respected leader; watch how the actor grows more calm and friendly whenever Kirk's bridge crew is becoming more agitated. Elba is such a strong presence throughout, even near the end, that it's a shame Krall is never granted the depth and complexity that his character keeps threatening to disclose. 

At this point it's worth asking what, if anything, this franchise is good for besides generating cash for Paramount and its above-the-line talent. Everything that made the original TV series and its follow-ups, small- and big-screen, seem so open-hearted, intelligent and playful is marginalized to make room for hyperactively edited action scenes and displays of hardware and production design. These are technically state-of-the-art but ultimately not all that different from what you see in most other CGI-driven action pictures, superhero as well as sci-fi—long, loud spectacles that are filled with people fighting, blowing up cities and planets, and crashing things into other things, instead of finding some other, more surprising way to move the plot along. What's the point of giving up pleasures that the "Star Trek" franchise is good at providing, to make more room for pleasures that most big-budget science fiction and fantasy already give us, month after month and year after year? Why boldly go where everyone else is already going? 

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.

120 minutes

Chris Pine as Kirk

Zachary Quinto as Spock

Karl Urban as Bones

Zoe Saldana as Uhura

Simon Pegg as Scotty

John Cho as Sulu

Anton Yelchin as Chekov

Idris Elba as Krall

Sofia Boutella as Jaylah

Deep Roy as Keenser

Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus

Writer (television series "Star Trek")

• Gene Roddenberry

Writer (uncredited)

• Roberto Orci
• Patrick McKay
• John D. Payne

Cinematographer

• Stephen F. Windon
• Greg D'Auria
• Dylan Highsmith
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Steven Sprung
• Michael Giacchino

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a brief cameo in a season 6 episode of Star Trek: Voyager, a role that was one of his first forays into acting.

During his time as a professional wrestler, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made one of his first forays into acting with a cameo appearance on  Star Trek: Voyager . Johnson, who was born in 1972, left a career in football to pursue professional wrestling in 1996 and began working for World Wrestling Entertainment , which at the time was called the World Wrestling Federation . During his time with WWE , Johnson gained worldwide fame as "The Rock" and is still regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Today, Johnson is also an acclaimed actor who has played roles in the Fast & Furious franchise,  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  and its sequel, and  Moana .

Johnson had already begun branching out into acting as early as 1999; his first official role was in an episode of That 70s Show , followed quickly by his appearance on Star Trek: Voyager in 2000. Johnson guest-starred in Voyager  season 6 in an episode entitled "Tsunkatse", portraying an unnamed alien from a race called the Pendari. Johnson's character faced off against Seven of Nine after she was captured while on an away mission and forced to fight in broadcasted matches of the alien martial art that gave the episode its name. The scene where Johnson appeared was towards the beginning of the episode, and was brief, with Johnson's Pendari Champion easily winning his match against a reluctant Seven.

Related: Star Trek Theory: Seven Of Nine Was Rejected From Starfleet

Johnson's cameo on Star Trek: Voyager would have been immensely enjoyable for both Star Trek and WWF  fans at the time, and his appearance on Voyager also had an interesting reason behind it. In 2000, Voyager was airing on the United Paramount Network, having been one of UPN's flagship shows since season 1 premiered in 1995. The year before, WWF's  newest show  WWF Smackdown!  had also joined UPN, airing on Thursday nights. Johnson's appearance on Voyager was a bit of a cross-promotional venture for both shows, made easier by the fact that they were on the same network. Indeed, getting someone as famous as The Rock in "Tsunkatse" earned Voyager its highest Neilsen rating for the whole season, clocking in at 4.1 million homes.

The scene where the Pendari and Seven of Nine fight also contained a couple of important nods to Johnson's career with WWE . When the Pendari first entered the ring, he did "The People's Eyebrow", one of The Rock's signature facial gestures, for the crowd of cheering fans. Additionally, The Pendari ended the fight with Seven by executing "The Rock Bottom" which was Johnson's often used finishing move during his pro wrestling matches. These moves would have been instantly recognizable to his fans at the time, and today are enjoyable Easter eggs for anyone who continues to appreciate Johnson's career in professional wrestling.

Johnson was the first pro wrestler to appear in a Star Trek show , but interestingly enough, would not be the last. Two other WWE stars, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. and The Big Show would both go on to cameo in separate episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise , the series that came after Voyager . It is also likely that Star Trek  was one of the things that helped Johnson realize that he was interested in acting as a more full-time career since he began moving away from wrestling and on to bigger acting roles shortly after. One thing is certain: while Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's cameo in Star Trek: Voyager might not be a well-remembered part of  Star Trek history, it will always be a memorable moment for diehard Voyager  and WWE fans.

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