Star Trek, is an original American science fiction show created by Gene Roddenberry that aired in 1966 to 1969. The story took place in a futuristic universe about the captain and his crew members in a starship called The Enterprise in deep space. This original series was cancelled due to low ratings upon its third season however spawned a large fan based community which soon lead to conventional events and literally a society of star trek fan. Due to the massive popularity, people soon began to produce their own stories, short films, plays, and many more creative works of art.
Over the course of the many years, new shows were produced such as the animated series in 1973, Star Trek: Phase II in 1978, The Next Generation in 1987 (my birth year) to 1994, Deep Space Nine in 1993-1999, and Voyager in 1995-2001. Because of the fans, the Star Trek franchise has made it up to our present day.
And so…in 2009, in celebration of a 40 year old franchise, director J. J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures gives us “Star Trek” (2009).
As I was overly hyped out and excited, I noticed a very unfamiliar presence in the air. There were more old people then young people, but it didn’t bother me when I saw a group of thirty year olds cosplaying! Yes, I saw old school fanboys, and fangirls dressing up as their favorite character from Star Trek. It was pretty exciting to see this! I’m so glad my cousins came over all the way from Utica, NY. Because of them, I got to see one of the greatest summer movies to watch!
The story starts off as the film opens with the starship, USS Kelvin, where it was travelling in space until a massive black hole appeared out of nowhere. Moments later a space battle ship with very advanced weaponry comes out of the black hole firing at the USS Kelvin. The Captain of the mysterious battleship makes contact with Kelvin and orders that the captain come aboard their ship. The Captain had no choice, but to travel to an unknown ship in order to secure the safety of his crew, he tells First Commander James Tiberius Kirk he is now the captain and if he doesn’t return in 15 minutes, evacuate the ship. He heads out to the ship that is later told to the audience that it is a Romulan mining ship, the Narada, commanded by Nero, a rogue Romulan.
The captain of the Kelvin is killed in confusion when he was conversing with Nero when the captain revealed the year it currently was and where were they from. As Nero killed him, he ordered his men to destroy the USS Kelvin. Acting Captain James Kirk ordered everybody to evacuate as well as his pregnant wife who was delivering the baby at that moment. His wife shouts for Kirk to escape from the bridge to the escape pod, he tells her he will be on his way; he just needs to enable autopilot. As he attempts to tell the computer to set it to autopilot, the computer responds that the autopilot program was destroyed and only has manual pilot ability.
Over the headset, Kirk tells his wife that he can’t make it and hears the sound of his baby. As the ship is being destroyed, Kirk focuses on the conversation with his wife asking her what the name of the child should be. They decide that he should be named after himself, James Tiberius Kirk, Jim for short. The escape pod launches as the USS Kelvin is at a collision course for impact with Narada.
And so, from this point on, it explains the story of the child, James Tiberius Kirk, and his remarkable adventure that had very heart pounding thrill ride throughout the ENTIRE FILM from being a nobody to the future captain of the USS Enterprise and coming face to face with his unchangeable destiny.
I won’t be talking more about the story because I’ll just be giving out spoilers. Anyway, on to the next thing, seeing Zachary Quinto, the guy who plays Syler in Heroes, plays as Spock who is known to become the 1st Commander of the USS Enterprise (Co-Captain). Seeing him in the trailer, I laughed so hard, but when I was watching this film, he really did disappear into his role. He is definitely a great actor and has a lot potential for future films.
Asides from seeing Zachary, there is someone else in the film that made the audience literally pop their eye balls!!!!! I won’t spoil it, this is part of the movie experience, and when you see that person, YES that IS the ORIGINAL actor from the 1960 Star Trek series! ^_^
Sidd gives this movie a 10/10! I WILL WATCH IT AGAIN! INVITE ME IF YOU ARE GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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