If you've never heard of Star Trek, then I don't know where you've been. However, with a large number of films and multiple spin off TV series, the fans have become a tad eccentric, to the point of ridicule.

Not unlike Bond and Batman, Star Trek was due a reboot and a credible one this was.

A ship emerges from a wormhole and attacks a Federation space station. Kirk evacuates the station, including his wife and newborn son, Jim. Many years later, the now teenage James T Kirk is causing all kind of trouble at home on Earth, when a general comes to visit him in the hope of recruiting him.

Reluctantly at first, he applies and meets Mackoy, a doctor, and Ohura, a fellow cadet. Three years later, after cheating on an unwinnable test, he is brought up on disciplinary charges by Spock, who wrote the program.

When an emergency situation presents itself on Vulcan, the whole fleet come to the rescue, but soon they realise it was a trap. A trap orchestrated by the same people who blew up the space station on the day of his birth, but unlike in most Star Trek films, disaster is not fully averted resulting in a major change to the known Trekkie universe.

The actors that play the characters were chosen very well, though Zachary Quinto who plays Spock also plays Sylar from Heroes, so I always expected him to suddenly rip someone's head open.

The special effects were amazing, the plot good and the comic relief good too. I can't complain about any part of this film, which is a hard thing to admit - because it makes me a Trekkie. Something I never wanted to be.

Still don't expect to see me dressed in Star Trek pyjamas with pointy ears or anything...

see also:
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, X Men: First Class, Avatar, I Am Legend

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