Star Trek: Great Galactic Glory

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2009)

WOW, being a Star Trek fan is good again!
Pine as Kirk: Not a clone of Shatner, but often engages his "Kirk-isms". With his mannerisms, intonement and posturing, he often did resemble Shatner but definitely made his own Kirk.
Quinto as Spock: Again, not a clone. Definitely a great choice as Spock, especially a youthful Spock who is learning how to be human and Vulcan, merging logic with emotion. Quinto also perfectly puts to use some terrific mannerisms which were made famous by Nimoy.
Urban as Bones: If only DeForest Kelley could have seen this movie... Urban was spot on PERFECT as Bones. Everything he did was an homage to DeForest Kelley. And there was nothing wrong with that.
The movie may have failed without them. But I will say not one single performer did a bad job. Bana as Nero, Greenwood as Pike, Zoe Saldana(excuse me while I drool) as Uhura, Pegg as Scotty, Cho as Sulu, Yelchin as Chekov were all as perfect can be. Leonard Nimoy could just stand around and be given credit for his performance as the elder Spock, but thankfully, he did more than that. I cannot leave this one out, Chris Hemsworth as James Kirk's father was fantastic! For what little time he had in the movie, what a great job of portraying the brave father of a newly born legend! He blew me away.
The brilliant use of current movie making technology gave us hopeful insight to future technology without drawing us back into our "viewership" status. To me, the escapism we often seek in movies like this drew me into the very core of this alternate reality created by Gene Roddenberry and revived by J J Abrams. Abrams, who has admitted not being a fan of the TV series(probably because he had other things going on), latched onto all the gimmicks, gadgetry and glory of this "old friend" from days gone by and made them new - a "genesis" of sorts. The old sounds and old visuals were enhanced and made to feel new. Putting it all together the way everyone did, this was as good as it gets.
My hopes for the next Star Trek movie consist of holding onto the camaraderie and technology with subtle and relative humor, not going overboard for the laughs as old Star Trek sometimes did. That said, I loved all the attempts for laughter in this movie. It was acceptable here because it was Star Trek coming home after being gone for an eternity.
Perfect is as perfect does and perfect gets 10/10