


Abrams shot the film for a modern audience, and Transformers scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman infuse the script with humor, action, and nice dialog winks to classic character moments. The tagline that "this isn\'t your father\'s Star Trek" is quite accurate. There\'s a lot more going on than what I\'ve talked about here, but I really don\'t want to give any more away. When it turns out that the situation at Vulcan is more complicated than anyone envisioned, and Pike is captured by Nero, Kirk tries to take charge, but Spock is the one in command. There we meet Sulu (John Cho) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). Leonard McCoy (Karl Urband), manages to get him on board the new U.S.S. But there\'s a distress call from Vulcan, and Kirk\'s good friend, the bitter Dr. Soon everyone is in Starfleet, and when Kirk is accused of cheating to beat a no-win scenario test (designed by Spock) the two immediately have resentment towards each other. His vulcan father (Ben Cross) tries to explain how logic essentially led him to marry a human (Winona Ryder), but the racism he encounters from "pure" vulcans only further pushes Spock to join Starfleet. Meanwhile on Vulcan, the half-human, half-vulcan Spock (Zachary Quinto) is trying to keep his emotions in check. After one such brawl, Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) tries to convince Kirk to get some order in his life, and join Starfleet - since he has the capability to be a great leader like his father. Kirk (Chris Pine) grows up to be a bit of a rebellious farm boy, stealing his stepfather\'s car, hitting on anything with two breasts (in this case Uhura, played by Zoe Saldana), and eventually getting into bar fights. Kelvin (helmed for a few short minutes by George Kirk), he changes the direction of history. When rogue Romulan Nero (Eric Bana) emerges from a space anomoly and destroys the U.S.S. Thankfully, with J.J Abrams taking on Gene Roddenberry\'s baby, there\'s a few twists and turns that not only give him the freedom to do whatever the heck he wants without worrying about the fans, but he also delivers a Trek film that actually delivers fun, thrills, excitement, and a nice wink-and-nod to the original cast. Lately, anything Star Trek related has been mired in over 40 years of canon, with fans shrieking every time something doesn\'t quite match the established narrative.
