Star Trek May 21, '09

This aint your dads (or grandfathers for that manner) Star Trek thats for sure. With this stand alone Star Trek joining the franchise a whole new generation will no doubt be joining the brotherhood. Director J.J. Abrams wasnt kidding around when he said he was going to stretch the definition of what a Star Trek experience is. Die hard Trekkies may be miffed over some of the in continuities but what was their option? The Star Trek franchise has been a hit and miss proposition these past three decades and somebody had to reboot Roddenburys dream. The joke was that the even numbered movies starting with Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan were the ones worth watching before the Next Generation premiered. I like to refer to this Star Trek as Twilight but with warp drive. The cast is young, cool and ironically everybody here was born after the original television series premiered back in 1966. . With this new movie we not only get to see how the young cadets graduate from Starfleet Academy but also get to see the first incarnation of the Enterprise and how it would be called their home from here on out. Among those young cadets is a rebellious and very cocky James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Dr. Bones McCoy (Karl Urban) and one of my favorite Brit actors, Simon Pegg plays Scotty. By the way anything with Pegg in it for the most part id a very entertaining experience. Zoe Saldana plays Nyota Uhura who most Star Trek fans know was never given a first name dating back to the sixties television series. I just assumed she never had one but later discovered that series creator Gene Roddenbury never assigned one to her. Way to go Abrams as this franchise needed a makeover. Looking forward now to the next installment in a very revitalized classic.

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