Excellent, Unique, and Wonderful Re-invention!

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2009)

Being a long time Trekkie, sci-fi/fantasy fan, and regular movie goer I had my doubts about a new Star Trek film. My wife and I went this evening to see it and I was more than pleasantly surprised, as was my wife. In most cases remakes and sequels have a tendency to hardly ever live up to the original and often massacres what was originally a very good story. In this case, this was altogether a grand success in both mine and my wife's opinion. Her experience with Star Trek mainly involves some episodes of ST: TNG, so she only went because I wanted to go, but she came out nearly raving about how great she thought this movie was. I have loved ST since first seeing Captain James T. Kirk take the captains chair when I was a child, it may well have been the root of my love of sci-fi and fantasy.
Going in to see this film I had my doubts and hopes as well. Going all the way back and giving the series a new starting point and a new spin. Almost a new universe for grand new adventures! I sincerely hope that the this rebirth gives rise to additional movies and the possibilities of new series for TV.