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The new Star Trek<\/a><\/strong> film manages to to strip away the baggage of the long running franchise and become the kind of film the Star Wars prequels<\/a> should have been.<\/p>\n I am not a huge Star Trek fan (and don’t really care if they are called Trekkies or Trekkers<\/a>), but this rebooting of the series deserves a lot of credit by focusing on the characters, maintaining a brisk pace and being a lot of fun.<\/p>\n Directed by\u00a0J. J. Abrams<\/a>\u00a0and written by\u00a0Roberto Orci<\/a>\u00a0and Alex Kurtzman<\/a>, this is essentially a prequel that explores the early years of\u00a0the main characters in the\u00a0Star Trek<\/a>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n It explores the back stories of\u00a0James T. Kirk<\/a>\u00a0(Chris Pine<\/a>) and\u00a0Spock<\/a>\u00a0(Zachary Quinto<\/a>) and their first proper mission mission aboard the\u00a0USS\u00a0Enterprise<\/a>\u00a0which sees them deal with a time travelling villain (Eric Bana<\/a>)\u00a0from the future.<\/p>\n There is also an appearance from\u00a0Leonard Nimoy<\/a>\u00a0(the original Spock) but I won’t reveal the details of it as a large chunk of the plot hinges on it.<\/p>\n What is striking though, is the way it has been paced as there is little in the way of flabby exposition, which can bog down origin stories like this.<\/p>\n Not only does Abrams move things along at a refreshing clip, but he has also chosen wisely with his young cast.<\/p>\n Pine and Quinto rise very well to the daunting task of playing such iconic characters and the supporting cast (which includes Zoe Saldana<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Uhura<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Karl Urban<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Bones<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Simon Pegg<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Scotty<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Anton Yelchin<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Pavel Chekov<\/span><\/a>) are equally as good.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The set pieces are well executed and have the visual effects that you would expect for a summer blockbuster, but the real trick here is that time and attention has been spent on the main characters.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Although William Shatner<\/a> and Leonard Nimoy<\/a> have been ingrained on pop culture for decades, the leads here\u00a0manage to breathe new life into these characters and shake off the cobwebs that had plagued the more recent movies<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n This is a film that will appeal to long term fans but also a new audience who either weren’t keen on it before or even alive when the TV series and subsequent film franchise began.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Ironically, one of selling points of the film (the return of Nimoy) is perhaps the most unnecessary, as the new cast do a good enough job standing on their own two feet.<\/p>\n Having said that, the writers do find a clever way to work in the ‘old’ Spock and give themselves new possibilities in the future.<\/p>\n Perhaps the best compliment you could pay to JJ Abrams and his team though is that this is what the Star Wars prequels should have been – lean, imaginative and entertaining.<\/p>\n > Official site for the film<\/a> The new Star Trek film manages to to strip away the baggage of the long running franchise and become the kind of film the Star Wars prequels should have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[941,940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n> Reviews at Metacritic<\/a>
\n> Brush up on Star Trek at Wikipedia<\/a> and The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"