Friday’s openings: To infinity and ‘Beyond’

Get ready to go where no human (man, woman or other) has gone before on Friday when the new "Star Trek" offering opens. The week's scheduled national releases are as follows:

"Star Trek Beyond": The crew of the Enterprise finds itself stranded on a distant world and has to band together to defeat a force that threatens to destroy them all. In other words, pretty much the same plot of every "Star Trek" episode ever made. Expect loads of CGI.

"Ice Age: Collision Course": Engaged in their respective middle-age crises, the familiar characters in this fifth entry in the "Ice Age" series face an even bigger challenge — how to avoid extinction coming in the form of a giant asteroid. Fiction, meet reality.

"Lights Out": Turns out something is lurking in the dark, and a young mother must struggle to discover the source of its power. One question: Where are the Warrens?

This is a tentative list. I'll update as needed.