Second time viewing

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2013)

Having watched Start Trek second time round after a two-year pause, this time prefaced by Abrahams himself explaining his own unique "twist" of the Roddenberry saga I feel, as lifelong fan of the Star Trek series to add some constructive but positive comments. It must be mainly a preserve of the male sex in that we sometimes long for dreams from which we never have to awaken. My emotions in identifying with the characters I had literally grown up with were ones of blissful reassurance. The five main characters they had somehow been plucked from the multitude to resemble the previous ones right down to the peculiar mannerisms that entranced and entertained us during on those cathode ray tube 70s days. I think the plot would not have been as plausible without other Hollywood blockbusters such as the Back-To trilogy that had preceded it to prepare and mollify our perceptions as to the implications of the space/time paradox. I think the reality of the situation by the end of the movie had just about dawned upon me - that there was no going back, and that the reality of the "new future" and follow-on movies would start from this "Idée fixe". I really loved the suspense and the swashbuckling antics of Chris Pines' new Kirk. Undeniably the best movie of 2009.