Star Trek (2009) A Review

Star Trek (2009) is a wonderful, action packed, humor filled, and loving reboot of the classic original Trek series. Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, and John Cho are awesome. Zachary Quinto is spectacular as Spock.


Eric Bana is great as the villain Nero. He gives depth to his character, a character that we've seen in Trek before: a man bent on a self-destructive obsession to hurt the one that had hurt him in the past, like the brilliantly mad Khan in ST:TWOK. Nero could have ended up being a one dimensional cartoon villain, but Bana is a very good actor and brings much to the role.


Like Khan, Nero is a man obsessed with vengeance. He wants to hurt Spock, just as Khan had wanted to hurt Kirk.

Nero blames Ambassador Spock (Leonard Nimoy in an ST:TNG episode) for the destruction of his home world Romulus and the death of his family. Nero wishes to destroy Vulcan and to force a helpless Spock to watch.

Zachary Quinto as Spock and Zoe Saldana as Uhura bring out levels of feelings and emotions not found in the original series or movies. They have a very touching, very close, and very real relationship, the type of relation ship that Dr. Chapel on the original series had always wanted with Spock.


Saldana portrays Uhura not only smart, funny and tough but also as a very caring human being. She truly cares for Spock and unlike, Nurse Chapel, Uhura has managed to get emotionally close to Quinto's Spock. So, in a way, we can get a glimpse of how Spock's mother, Amanda, must have bonded with Sarek during their own courtship.

In Star Trek (2009) there is a subtle acknowledgment by Ambassador Spock the events in this movie are taking place in an alternate time-line. Nero fell through a black hole that existed within the TNG universe and he fell into this movie's alternate time line

Thus the destinies of some of our beloved characters, in addition to Kirk, such as Spock, Uhura, and Scotty, are totally screwed up.

That screw up in the time-line could also explain why the Enterprise is built on Earth, in Iowa, instead of at the San Francisco Ship Yards.

This is the most beautiful looking Trek movie since The Motion Picture. The visual effects are top-notch. The production design is imaginative and a delight to behold. The Enterprise Bridge is a thing of beauty. It's like being inside of a futuristic Apple computer.


The re-visioned Enterprise is a true work of art. Hard core Trekkers will not be disappointed. Yes, there are some minor differences, for example, the Boussard collectors are larger than on the original ship, making the warp nacelles a bit thicker. But overall, this ship is as beautiful as The Motion Picture Enterprise.

Star Trek (2009) is the best movie of 2009. A perfect movie.