Not only did J.J. Abrams capture the greatness of the original he also managed to injected new life into a dead franchise.
As a side note, I came across this article pointing out some =similarities between this film and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Well, basically it’s “Star Wars” with James Tiberius Kirk as Luke Skywalker — or, as my pal V.Q. told me yesterday, “He’s Kirk playing Han playing Luke.” Let me know if any of this sounds in any way familiar:
“Star Trek” opens with one spaceship getting smacked around by a much-larger spaceship from a large empire. The main villain on the much-larger ship is looking for someone associated with a device that can destroy planets.
Cut to a farmboy (Kirk) who lost his warrior father and loves fast vehicles. He doesn’t get along with the man who raised him, and dreams of a better life in outer space. An older mentor inspires the boy to leave home — where he gathers an ad-hoc family of vivid, bickering characters who bond under pressure in a really fast spaceship as they try to (a) rescue someone from the aforementioned much-larger spaceship and (b) prevent the villain from blowing up planets.
There might even be an awards ceremony, a retractable sword, and a bar full of aliens in there somewhere.
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