Fairly good Star Trek; but not suitable for very young kids

Rating: 6/10 (20 November 2009)

This is a fairly good redo of Star Trek origins. (Yes, I saw the very first Star Trek and so on...). Yet it's not for grade school kids unless you want to have them snicker when Kirk grabs Uhura's chest and when he is on top of a woman in a quick bedroom scene...
However, the rest of the film is suitable for most grade school and older kids...if they like fast paced action and stylized sci fi types of action...! ***** (Suggest parents view the DVD & plan to skip these 2 early scenes...We all know Captain Kirk was a ladies' man in the 60's TV show without seeing detail...and this film already establishes Kirk's reputation as a brash ladies' man before these two brief scenes retell the "Kirk likes women" idea...
Otherwise, maybe later family TV versions of STAR TREK will edit out these minor sexual portions...the main plot is unharmed!
The casting, more than the special effects, will help us middle-aged Trekkies connect back to that great ORIGINAL TV Show...and may well inspire young Treksters to view the great original Star Trek TV series on DVD. The best moments on the TV show were not the now-weak special effects...but the character interaction.
Ah, yes, good characters, good script live on forever...
The 1960's Spock, Captain Kirk, "Bones", "Scotty", Uhuru and Sulu are echoed by their 2009 counterparts.
Spoiler is - Old original Spock is in this movie.