Star Trek is a 2009 science fiction film directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It is the eleventh film based on the Star Trek franchise and features the main characters of the original Star Trek series, who are portrayed by a new cast. The film introduces a parallel universe/alternate timelinecontinuity of the original series and the previous movies.^[4] It explores the previously unexplored backstories of James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto), before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from the future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. Released to traditional and IMAX theaters, the film debuted internationally (with some advance showings in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States) on May 7, 2009, and was widely released in North America, Brazil, Ireland and the United Kingdom on May 8, 2009. separate from the

Development of the film began in 2005 when Paramount Pictures contacted Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman for ideas to revive the franchise. The creative team contrasted Orci and Lindelof, who consider themselves "Trekkies", with casual fans like Abrams, who all aimed to create a film that would interest a general audience. They wanted to be faithful to the Star Trek canon, but they also introduced elements of their favorite novels, modified continuity with the time travel storyline, and modernized the production design of the original show. Filming took place from November 2007 to March 2008 under intense secrecy. Midway through the shoot, Paramount chose to delay the release date from December 25, 2008 to May 2009, believing the film could reach a wider audience.

In the year 2387, Romulus is threatened by a supernova. Ambassador Spock pilots a Vulcan ship carrying "red matter" which can create a gravitational singularity, drawing the supernova into a black hole. However, Spock is too late, and Romulus is destroyed. Captain Nero of the Romulan mining ship Narada attempts to exact revenge on Spock for letting Romulus be destroyed, but both ships are caught in the black hole's event horizon, traveling into the past and creating an alternate reality from the original Star Trek series. The NaradaFederation starship, the USS Kelvin. As the Kelvin is evacuated, acting-Captain George Kirk is forced to stay behind to provide cover for the fleeing shuttlecraft, dying moments after his son, James Tiberius Kirk, is born. When Ambassador Spock arrives 25 years later, Nero captures his ship and the remaining red matter. Spock is left marooned on the planet Delta Vega near Vulcan so that he may witness the destruction of his homeworld. arrives 153 years before the supernova, and immediately attacks a nearby

After growing up without a father, Kirk has become an intelligent, reckless, and cynical young man. Captain Christopher Pike, dismayed that Kirk is wasting his intelligence on self-destructive behavior, tells him of his late father's heroic efforts and convinces him to join Starfleet. At Starfleet Academy, Kirk befriends fellow cadets Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Uhura. In his third year at the Academy, Kirk is accused of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru test by the test's current programmer, Commander Spock. In the midst of the ensuing hearing, during which Kirk is placed on academic suspension, Starfleet receives a distress signal from Vulcan. The cadets are mobilized to help man the ships in orbit. Acting as his attending physician, Dr. McCoy brings Kirk on board the USS Enterprise, to which both Spock and Uhura have been assigned under Pike's command.

Kirk, recognizing similarities between the distress call from Vulcan and the encounter that destroyed the Kelvin, warns Pike that the fleet is heading into a trap. The Enterprise arrives late, by which time the fleet has been wiped out. The Narada is drilling into Vulcan's core. Nero disables the Enterprise and orders Pike to surrender himself via shuttlecraft. Pike agrees, leaving Spock in command and Kirk as first officer. En route to the Narada, Pike arranges for Kirk, Hikaru Sulu, and Chief Engineer Olsen to perform an orbital skydive onto the drilling platform and destroy it. Olsen is killed, but Kirk and Sulu stop the drill. However, it has already reached the planet's core, and Nero launches red matter into the core, collapsing the planet into a black hole. Spock rescues most of the planet's elders, including his father, but his mother dies, along with nearly six billion Vulcans. Spock estimates only ten thousand Vulcans are left. Nero intends to do the same to Earth, and tortures Pike for the command codes to Earth's perimeter defenses.

Kirk attempts to convince Spock to travel to Earth to stop Nero, but Spock maroons him on Delta Vega and orders the ship to rendezvous with the rest of the fleet. On Delta Vega, Kirk encounters the elderly Ambassador Spock, who relays the future's events through a mind meld and insists that Kirk must become captain of the Enterprise. The two travel to a nearby Starfleet outpost where they meet the talented Montgomery Scott. Spock helps Scott refine his equations for "transwarp transportation" to allow Kirk and Scott to beam aboard the Enterprise. Kirk manages to anger Spock, forcing him to cede command due to being emotionally compromised. Spock, Scott, and Pavel Chekov devise a plan to bring the Enterprise to Titan and take advantage of Saturn's magnetosphere to disguise their presence, allowing them to beam Kirk and Spock aboard the Narada unnoticed. While Kirk rescues Pike, Spock retakes the future Ambassador Spock's ship, using it to destroy the drill and lure the Narada away from Earth before piloting a collision course into the Narada. The Enterprise arrives and beams Kirk, Pike, and Spock away before the collision, which releases the remaining red matter and creates a black hole within the Narada's superstructure. Kirk offers to help rescue Nero and his crew, but the Romulan refuses. The Narada is torn apart, and the Enterprise narrowly escapes the same fate by igniting the ship's warp drive reactor cores, the resulting explosion pushing them clear.

Kirk is promoted to captain of the Enterprise, relieving the newly promoted but wheelchair-bound Admiral Pike. While searching for his father, Spock encounters his older self in a hangar; Ambassador Spock is departing to help found a new colony for the remaining Vulcans. Spock informs his older self of his intention to leave Starfleet to help in the rebuilding. Ambassador Spock tells his younger self that he and Kirk need each other and that he should remain in Starfleet. Taking his older self's advice, Spock does so, becoming first officer under Kirk's command. As the Enterprise warps away, Leonard Nimoy recites a version of the "Where no man has gone before" monologue.

Recommendation: 4/5 Interesting show. I was expecting an emotionless, shallow action flick, especially after th seeing the trailers. I didn't give much "hope" on the film. BUT, I was seriously wrong. This has far greater emotionel depth as compared to what I had expected. As for the actors, they do fit well, reimagining the characters and feel right for a modernized view of them. Overall, GOOD! Now, it leads me wondering, will Earth be like this many many years down the road? It's kind of boring to be on the spaceship, with no shopping, no movies etc. @_@ But for once, there is 1 thing I would like to have NOW. The beams! I will I can just beam and energize myself to and fro work. Which means I will wake up at 8.45am and reach up at 6.05pm. Well, I will try harder.

 

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