Star Trek

Never watched the series before, such space space thingie never intrigue me. Also, watching men in red spandex, beam here, beam there, beam beam, anywhere here there doesn't really excite. And I think most of the series dialogues are slow and very 琼瑶. But overall this movie entertains, it delivered just enough, with a new cast protraying the series characters when young.

Chris Pine as James T Kirk, while Zachary Quinto as Spock. Both wanted to serve the USS enterprise but with their opposite style, the fiery impetuos James vs the logical and seem calm Spock whom being half vulcan and human was able to control his emotion. And on board a crew of United Nations, even "Harold" got a role as Zulu, the pilot. My friend sweared he saw Kumar also in the movie. Then we have Bones, friend of James who is the medical doctor. Not to mention, the russian whiz kid, his accent adds some funny moments.

He tried to help him to get board one of the 7 ship that was scheduled to fly to Vulcan to save the planet. First giving him a shot to make him ill, thus allowing his own patient on board. Then running around to reverse the effect of this shot. When James found out that, an lightning storm was around when the vulcan incident happened, he charged to warn Captain Pike, this could be a trap set by the Nero, commander of the invading ship.

James did convince the captain but it was slightly too late. They arrived in warp speed then found themselves facing the invading spaceship, they simply couldn't stop them. And captain was have no choice by to go on board the enemy ship. While James and Zulu parachuted onto the spaceship where they need to destroy the thingie that disabled the USS transporter. They did eventually. Then Spock beamed into Vulcan and saved a few old people and his father and mother. But his mother died while was almost being beam back.

Back on ship, James wanted to save the captain while Spock logically rebuted doing that is not possible. Thus, as captain, Spock send James away, he landed in some planet with just snow and ice around. On the planet, he met Spock, not the one that send him here but is the same Spock but came from the future. He gave him some tips on how to handle the invasion.

James went to some USS outpost and found Scotty, beam back to the enterprise with him. Using the what future Spock told him, he became Captain after Spock stepped down as he found himself overtaken by emotion, still filled with anger by his mother death. Anyway in the end, they co-operated and won the battle. 7/10