To boldly go

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2018)

JJ Abrams and his creative team with added lens flare have rebooted the Star Trek films and gone off to another timeline.
This preserves the stories of the earlier Star Trek adventures and its sequel shows but allows Abrams to concentrate on new stories a younger crew of the Enterprise. That was the plan with Star Trek. Unfortunately it all went awry immediately with the sequels.
However here we see the adventures of the younger James T Kirk, a rather wayward young man encountering Spock, Sulu, Scott and Bones as well as other crew members.
The writers have created conflict between Kirk and Spock as the Vulcan is unhappy with Kirk's breach of ethics and later after Spock's planet his destroyed, Kirk's inability to follow orders as Spock kicks him off the Enterprise which leads Kirk to meet the older, alternative Spock.
The plot is a renegade Romulan attacking Federation ships, who might be from another time and his anger is focussed on Spock. It is an action oriented film, with fun and humour.
The best acting performance is from Karl Urban who just oozes the spirit of Doctor McCoy, very few thought that Urban had it in him to deliver such a marvellous performance.