Star Trek

J.J. Abrams has breathed a whole new life into the Star Trek franchise with the latest addition opening last weekend. The film stars Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, Heroes’ Zachary Quinto as Spock, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and Eric Bana plays villain Nero. The movie picks up from the roots of their legendary characters and tells the story of their first mission together and brings the Enterprise crew together with an unsuspected twist to the story as far as the relationship with the crew of this movie with the crew of the original series relates. The pieces start to fall in place when James T. Kirk is introduced as a bar brawling drifter who happens to be son of a great captain who died saving his son and wife. After hitting on Uhura and brawling with her federation peers he falls into enlisting to try and do better than his dad. As the move progress he meets his future crew mates one by one and the movie shows you how things aren’t so euphoric with this crew. The movie has a surprising amount of humor mixed in with the expected amount of heart pounding action and edge of your seat excitement, and a supporting cameo role by Lenard Nemoy. All in all this was a great movie and I was never a trekkie.


Star Trek trailer