Watch This Space

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2009)

Having watched between twelve and twenty TV reruns of both the William Shatner and Patrick Stewart versions of the franchise but none of the feature films I am arguably one of the best or one of the worst people to post a comment here. Overall I enjoyed this, the first full length Star Trek I have seen; it's true I can live without the technological aspect, all that hardware is lost on me but the 'people' side more than compensated and it was a great idea to do something of a 'Smallville' i.e. retrogress to a time before we met the primary characters. Again the emphasis is on the pre-'captain' Kirk and the Vulcan Spock but the others, Bones McCoy, Sulu, Scotty, Uhuru, all have their own entrances and, of course, all come together professionally in both senses of the word. All in all a fine effort.