Movie: Star Trek
Year: 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama/Action
Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg

Snapshot of Story:
The phenomenal success of the Star Trek movie series is followed by this helping where we are taken to the early days of James T Kirk as he embarks on his career in the Star Trek cadet school and almost immediately flung into his first adventure.

Storyline:
Like many well known series there comes a time when producers of movies go back in time and tell a story of the ‘first happenings’ and how it all came to be. This maybe fueled in part by the huge success of the original series and the audiences desire to seek more. In any case, it is a challenge for producers to come up with something unique and in the process retell a story that is in the past with many references made from the series. For example, in many of the series Kirk or other members of the ship will recollect some events in the past while they were in the cadet which had an amusing tale or twist. Thankfully, many hardcore-fans will be pleased to learn that most of those historical facts are in tact in this story. A most notable past event that has been referenced many times was how Kirk single-handedly defeated the computer war program as part of his training, something which no other person was able to do. This scene was well portrayed and some of the dialogues exchanged between Kirk and Spock marked the hallway towards their future relationship and in particular their contrasting nature of thinking ie. rationality as opposed to logic.

In this movie we see a Spock played by Zachary Quinto which at first seems at odds end to the Spock that we have all come to know and love. Spock is portrayed by a ruthless sense of logic that makes him so cold and unapproachable and a character that many would like to disassociate. However, as we progress through the movie we see the ‘softening’ of Spock and a shift towards the character that we have come to appreciate today.

By far the two most important characters in this movie are Kirk and Spock with of course the arch nemesis to make the storyline. The young Kirk is well portrayed as a care-free immature man longing for something more and how his character becomes more refined and mature through each step of the movie. In typical Star Trek fashion, Kirk needs to make quick instantaneous decisions that can mean the difference between life and death. There is much action in this movie to keep all the action fans happy as well as those who seek to see the youthful star trek teams and how they came to be assembled in their current form.

Final Thoughts:
The director JJ Abrams has done a great job of putting together a movie of what could have had potential holes and leave the audience wanting. His portrayal of the characters were unique and accurate and the entire movie is highly watchable for Trekkie fans as well as an excellent movie in it’s own right.

Rating:
8.5/10

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