Latest reviews about Star Trek

LisaCarey says "Go where no movie has gone before and I didn't want to come back" about Star Trek

LisaCarey — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:33:55 GMT

I admit it, I am a "Trekie." Having grown up watching Capt. Kirk and Spock as well as the rest of the crew of the Enterprise, to become an adult and parent watching each of the new "generations" as well as each movie (and even owning them) I was sure that Star Trek was coming to an end. Honestly after ST: TNG I was pretty much over it as many of the newer shows and movies may have had better sound effects and more technology on the ship the story lines just didn't cut it.

But WOW! You can read in all the other reviews about the amazing cast of characters and IMDB.com can give you a list of them on the newest Star Trek (2009) . I have to say that Bruce Greenwood (Capt. Pike) and Zachary Quinto (Spock and most well known from Heroes) gave stand out performances. The cast and the crew of the newest and oldest Enterprise really have it all. They are amazingly smart (geniuses all), sexy, and daring. The ship itself offered more bells and whistles and while this may have been the oldest...

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CindyML says "Amazing" about Star Trek

CindyML — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:36:13 GMT

I admit, I am not a Star Trek fan.. I have never even seen a previous episode of Star Trek before, and the only reason why I went to go see this movie was because I thought that Chris Pine was really cute. All I can say is that when I left the theater, I thought this was an AMAZING movie... best movie since well... ever. It was funny, and action packed and I am dying for it to come on DVD so I can buy it.

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rainexpert says "It's back!" about Star Trek

rainexpert — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:46:25 GMT

I'd like to say that I was one of the original Star Trek fans, but that wouldn't be quite true. I only saw bits and pieces of one episode when the original series was still on NBC, and didn't quite know what to make of it then. But soon, Kirk, Spock and McCoy were in syndication and a life-long interest was born. I've waited in line to see every single Star Trek movie (watch out for the odd-numbered ones!). With Nemesis, though, I resigned myself to the fact that the end had come at last.

Until word came that more was on the way, and that we'd do a little time traveling ourselves! We were going back to the future - back to the early days of the characters from the original series that we already knew.

And what a joy it was! Despite the entirely understandable, yet somewhat unsettling, ads that proclaimed, "This isn't your father's Star Trek," I found that it actually was - and more!

Back was the focus on characters! Back was the action! Back was the humor and passion! ...

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jrg2005 says "An adventure for all sci-fi fans" about Star Trek

jrg2005 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:19:34 GMT

Me and husband went to the new the Star Trek movie.I'm not a Star Trek fan but my husband is.I went into the movie knowing very little about the series.I was pleastly surprised.Even thought I knew next to nothing I really liked the movie.I did not feel left out or in the dark about anything that happened.It was action packed and a nice way to start the summer movie season.The special effects are great and the story line is clever and refreshing for a series that has been about for so long.I'm really looking forward to when it comes out on dvd.

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madburns57 says "Action packed and dazzeling" about Star Trek

madburns57 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:17:17 GMT

Star Trek (2009) Remake or reinvention... Most people think when you go back to write something as a prequel or so it will be a flop or worse than the original. Star Trek was just the opposite. It open doors to new fans and re-energized it so to say. With the all new cast (aside from Nimoy) created something "sexy" in a sense about Star Trek. The only flaw in the cast I suppose that anyone could have argued with was the selection of Simon Pegg (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). I think anyone who heard that who loves Star Trek was sure that was a flopped selection... but soon proven wrong by his performance. The story was well written, usually when you have anything to do with the future and time travel it seems so far out and childishly stupid... this played very well with the theme of the movie staying fast paced, emotional, and full of vegence. I believe that starting out with Captain Chrisopher Pike was a great way of staying true to the begining of Star Trek the Original Series but...

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LauraBelle says "Doing the Original Justice" about Star Trek

LauraBelle — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:37:07 GMT

The latest Star Trek movie gets the Star Wars treatment, in that we see how it all started. Instead of starting out with Captain Kirk already manning the Enterprise, we start out with his father, Captain George Kirk, manning the USS Kelvin. They allow just enough background in early on for us to know there's a connection, yet not give it all away.

The USS Kelvin is attacked by Captain Nero of the Romulan mining ship Narada. Captain George Kirk orders everyone off the ship, including his wife who is going into labor. He's coaxed aboard the Nero, being asked if he knows the location of Ambassador Spock. Again, it's another connection that we know from earlier to prod us along. This Captain Kirk has a different first name, isn't piloting the Enterprise, yet there's the mention of Spock. His wife delivers a baby and names him James Tiberius Kirk, and we start to understand more and more.

As we meet the rest of the characters we remember from the original Star Trek series, we have to smile....

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bkovacs says "To loudly go where quite a few have gone before" about Star Trek

bkovacs — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:41:53 GMT

I'm a huge Star Trek fan, having watched nearly every episode of all the TV series, starting with the original on NBC so many years ago. I've also seen all the movies, including the latest, which is simply called Star Trek. No numbers, no colon with a following phrase such as "The Wrath of Khan" or "The Voyage Home." It takes a lot of chutzpah to call your film "Star Trek" when those two words have been painstakingly defined over the past 40-odd years.

Star Trek has that chutzpah in abundance. What it doesn't have is much originality.

Star Trek starts by resetting the original Star Trek characters, including James T. Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Dr. McCoy, Sulu, Uhura and Chekov. In the case of Kirk and Spock, it goes back to their childhoods, all the way to birth in the case of Kirk. Then it figures out a way for Kirk to break every rule and still get into the captain's seat of the Enterprise at an impossibly young age. Therefore we see Kirk at age 10 screaming down the highway in a stolen...

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MikeMaroon says "The Creator of LOST Rescues Star Trek From That Very Fate" about Star Trek

MikeMaroon — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:40:21 GMT

I'm a Star Trek fan but NOT a Trekkie. Let's get that clear right up front. There's a difference. I've seen all the Star Trek movies and incarnations of the series I thought were worth my time. Several of the later ones were not worth anyone's time and because of that, a franchise once iconic in stature teetered on the brink of irrelevance.

Whatever possessed J.J.Abrams, the man responsible for such TV series as LOST, Felicity and Alias along with the films Armageddon, Mission Impossible III, and Cloverfield, to tackle this once beloved franchise and its instantly recognizable characters I don't know. But I want to thank them. Mr. Abrams decided to give us a vision of Star Trek we hadn't seen before, the very beginning. Oh, we've had bits and pieces of it in past films and series, but nothing like this. Instead of trying to make us believe new faces in the form of old, beloved characters, he gave us new faces in the form of young, yet to be beloved characters. Abrams...

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Fardreamer says "J.J. Abrams' resucitates Star Trek with bold 'reboot'" about Star Trek

Fardreamer — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:36:16 GMT

Some time after the year 1989, the year in which William Shatner's Star Trek V: The Final Frontier put a brake on the movie series' seemingly endless run of box office successes, executive producer Harve Bennett came up with a radical idea to save Paramount's premier franchise from extinction.

Knowing that Star Trek's 25th Anniversary was going to be celebrated in 1991 and that the studio was considering, albeit with some hesitation, a sixth feature film based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry, Bennett and screenwriter David Loughery pitched a story titled Starfleet Academy.

Its exact storyline has never been revealed because Paramount was determined to close out the Original Series-derived film cycle with Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, De Forest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei aboard the USS Enterprise, but Starfleet Academy would have focused on how a young and rebellious James T. Kirk and a half-Vulcan, half-human Starfleet officer...

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cmohr80 says "The BEST Star Trek EVER and the BEST action film in years!!!" about Star Trek

cmohr80 — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:24:11 GMT

Directed by J.J Abrams, director of Mission: Impossible III, as well as the executive producer of a few "Lost" episodes, the latest Star Trek installment goes back to the story lines of the original characters in an action-packed, fun-filled adventure in a prequel of it's own. Starring Chris Pine (Just My Luck, Princess Diaries 2) as Captain Kirk, Zachary Quinto as young Spock who plays the role, made famous by Leonard Nimoy, well. Karl Urban and Simon Pegg do pretty right on impressions of McCoy and Scotty, made famous by DeForest Kelley and James Doohan. John Cho (Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle) plays hand combatting, handsome Sulu. Anton Yelchin does an incredibly uncanny rendition of Pelvil Chekov and Zoe Saldana plays the young, intelligent and sexy Uhura. With the big surprise of Leonard Nimoy, rounding out the cast. Tyler Perry fans: He's in it too!

In the words of Wubbzy, "Wow! Wow! Wow!" And I mean WOW! As a Star Trek fan, I was expecting a lot, very...

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TheBard says "The origins of Kirk and the gang in a not so bad film" about Star Trek

TheBard — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:52:55 GMT

The Star Trek franchise has been alive for over forty-five years and through all of the various incarnations: Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nice, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as nine motion pictures, I have been an eager and loyal fan.

The latest Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek: Enterprise only lasted a short while before being canceled due to low ratings in 2005 and Paramount needed to jumpstart concept lest it fade from American popular culture. Enter Star Trek directed by adrenaline junky JJ Abrams and staring a cast of (virtual) young unknowns.

The Story-Line

This Star Trek the movie once again explores the oft-misunderstood and frequently filmed world of time travel. The movie explores the birth of the legend that will become James T. Kirk in the Star Trek universe. The baddies are once again the Romulans, or in this case one Romulan in particular, named Nero portrayed by Eric Bana. Nero, who captains an...

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meowmixlp says "The new Star Trek movie is fabulous" about Star Trek

meowmixlp — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:45:52 GMT

This was actually my very first Star Trek experience, but it was well worth it. The movie was fun, and I jumped a few times, too.

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lafchef says "the action scenes were good, music was fake!" about Star Trek

lafchef — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:15:36 GMT

We waited months for this movie Star Trek. Simon Pegg was brilliant. James T. was oK...loved the dynamic between young spock and love interest. also great to see real spock. but his teeth were not right. I guess the budget did not include getting some well fitting teeth for such an Icon. and the music. that had to be the biggest let down. Since when do we equate great epic movie scores with ripped off digital sound bites? I have heard the Star Trek score from an orchestra and that is as it should be. Another disappointment was the costumes. Not the great red polyester ones that the general public sported. but the creepy cotton ones in the last scene that looked like they dug them out of the bottom of the clothes hamper. Please. Kirk would never have his shirt tail bunched up in front. Poor edit work. overall I am generous to give Star Trek a 3.

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NubtheSquirrel says "Have me go where no one has gone before; I want more!" about Star Trek

NubtheSquirrel — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:34:46 GMT

Seriously, how good is the latest Star Trek?

Allow me to put it in perspective this reviewer's state of mind with this film. I am a hardcore classic Trek fan. That's not to say that I have seen every single episode, know every movie by heart, or even seen the animated series. Far from it. In fact, I've seen a few of the episodes, I have seen all the Classic Trek movies, but don't know them by heart, and I've seen very few of the animated series. That's not to say that I am a Star Trek fan. In fact, I am a huge fan. In fact, one would say I would be called a Trekkie, if not for the fact that I don't wear the pointed ears or the Starfleet uniform in real life. Hell, I don't even own a Star Trek action figure. (My wife owns the classic Trek Barbies though, but that's another story...)

Imagine my shock and wonderful surprise when I saw the trailer for Star Trek. I was not expecting to go as absolutely insane over this movie as I did based on the trailer alone. ...

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renfield1969 says "So good, you'll ignore the stupid plot." about Star Trek

renfield1969 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:00 GMT

When I say the plot is stupid, I mean it's more than just "Star Trek bad". No one involved put more than two seconds of thought into how black holes or time travel might actually work. The science has always been a little flimsy in this franchise, but usually when they wrote themselves into something that might seem nonsensical the TV show could always be counted on to throw some magic wand at it in the form of "warp fields", or "calculations", or even "miraculously, it worked". But this is J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, where science does not even warrant a nod and a wink.

Fortunately, it has always been the characters that made Star Trek such a lasting American icon, and here their recast counterparts are used to their fullest. It is a treat to watch all the beloved characters interacting with each other. The action, spirit, and whimsy of the original show has truly been recaptured (for the whimsy, sometimes even too much.) The film opens with an attack on Kirk's father's starship by...

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