Enjoyable sci-fi action

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2009)

Trekkies must be fuming from anger: someone has taken their precious Star Trek, which has been for decades their special little play ground, and turned it into something a regular, non canon obsessed person can actually enjoy.
It's actually quite brilliant: from a future comes a Romulan villain, who is seeking vengeance upon Spock and other Vulcans. He waits for old Spock (the man from the original series, Leonard Nimoy) to come in the past, so Nero (brilliant Eric Bana) can make him watch the destruction of his home world in the past. This all establishes a time line, that is quite different, yet still similar to the old one.
This also give the change to reintroduce all those familiar faces with new actors. James Kirk is played quite nicely by Chris Pine while the role of young Spock has been given Heroes series arch villain Zachary Quinto. It was actually quite a pleasure to see more seasoned portrayal of Nimoy and an role of Quinto, who is still trying to figure out who Spock really is: a human or a Vulcan. And it also was quite nice to see Spock having emotional contact with Uhura (beautiul Zoe Saldana). The rest of the cast is also manned with a great cast, such as Carl Urban as Bones and Winona Ryder as Spock mother.
All in all, Star Trek is very enjoyable, reasonably well written and easily the most enjoyable Star Trek movie for people, who aren't very, or not at all, familiar with the original series or previous movies, which always felt like they were directly tailored to a small core audience.