J.J. 2009 Abrams film was rated as "not your father's Star Trek," but his father probably love it anyway. And what is love? It has enough action, the emotional impact, humor and pure fun for any movie buff, and Trekkers will enjoy a lot of insider references and a cast that seems ideal to portray the characters we know will be later. Both a prequel and a reboot, Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine from The Princess Diaries 2), an acute man but aimless young man who is pushed by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to obtain and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a commander called Vulcan Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), but the conflict must take a back seat when Starfleet, including its newest ship, the Enterprise must respond to an emergency call of Vulcan. What follows is a moving account of genocide and retaliation launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we see the crew families meet, as McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin) and Scottie (Simon Pegg).
The action and visual effects make for a great dramatic movie screen, though the plot of Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together in transformers and with Abrams on Alias and Mission Impossible III), and its makers (partners Damon Lindeloff survivors and Bryan Burk) can be a bit more of a hallucinogen (no surprise to fans of Lost). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick can find fault, but resistance is futile when you can see Kirk take on the Kobayashi Maru scenario or hear the bark McCoy, "Damn, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and listen to the end of Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer by simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some consequences of this terrible consequence.
- Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
- Directors: J.J. Abrams
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1 ES Matrix), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1 ES Matrix)
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Studio: Paramount
- DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009
- Run Time: 126 minutes
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