Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood ...( see more  see more... ) , Karl Urban , Zoe Saldana , Simon Pegg , John Cho , Anton Yelchin , Ben Cross , Winona Ryder , Chris Hemsworth , Jennifer Morrison , Rachel Nichols

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emoti...( read more  read more... )on. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.

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PG-13, 2 hr. 6 min.

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Release Date: May 7, 2009

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DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009

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  • May 12, 2009
    Quite easily the best "Trek" movie that outdoes the previous nine film in the series. The most riveting & fun adventure that you'll see twice.
  • February 1, 2010
    Warning - spoliers! This movie will introduce Star Trek to a whole new generation. It unites the cast of the Enterprise from a young age. All the favourites are there - Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, etc. For once Kirk doesn't get the girl! Sorry to spoil it but it was amusing! It ...( read more)has a great storyline, baddies and special effects. New Spock is the best character. Eric Bana makes a brilliant baddie. Strange Winona Ryder plays an old lady - Spock's mum. Fabulous! When is the next movie?
  • January 17, 2010
    this is a great movie!!! I wasnt sure at first and I thought it would just be a stupid fanboy action movie...but DANG!! this was gooood!
    Deeply emotional... I was close to crying in the first 10 min.
    This story is soo good! Its not just go out and save the universe...its comp...( read more)lex, and like I said before, emotional. Christ Pine and Zachary Quinto are both PERFECT for thier roles. Good to see Leonord Nimoy too.
    Having never watched Star Treck before in my life, i was very happy that i was not completely confused... Eric Bana is also very good. And who every it was that played the Russian...I thought he was ADORABLE! possibly my favorite in the movieXD

    This special effects in this movie were AMAZING!!! I really belive that this movie should win for best special effects when oscar time rolls around.
    and J.J. Abrams OMG!!! This guy is amazing. This movie was eyecady from beging to end and NEVER disapointed!! Abrams is one of the most talented young directors in hollywood right now..
  • January 8, 2010
    An amazing ride. It had strangely some things very familiar and some things different. Star Trek has been revived after the death of Data and TNG in that awful Nemesis movie.

    Since the 1970's -- I always wondered how Kirk and Spock and the others would meet each other; but not m...( read more)uch of that was shown in this movie. I was hoping for more classroom sessions at the Federatiion with cool training simulations, but that was skipped. (Perhaps a TV series of Teen-Trek: The Federation Years might be in order!)

    Instead awesome director J.J. threw us into the action immediately with a bit disappointing time travel plot involving a Khan/Shinzon Romulan psycho captain. (Trek relies on time travel too often I think.) I was shocked and pleased how the story re-wrote Vulcan histoy, but I hope they set things back to the old continuum by the next few movies, for the sake of continuity.

    The red/blue/yellow costumes were great to see revived. The casting of all the characters was good indeed. The new white/bright enterprise bridge was cool. The ship combat special effects were amazingly real with motion blurred craft, detailed debris and heat-glowing energy bursts. The new Trek musical theme was powerful and memorable.

    After viewing theatrically, I was disturbed by the Uhura/Spock sexy petting, the curly-haired boy-Chekov, the car-driving Kirk kid, Scotty's alien assistant and Kirk with the puffy ailment - but rewatching on home theatre, I could look past those blemishes and enjoy the overall experience. It keeps getting better each viewing.
  • January 6, 2010
    ''Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including yours. I dare you to do better. Enlist in Starfleet.''

    A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.

    Chris Pine: James T.

    ...( read more)Kirk

    To put it simply Star Trek isn't just a reboot of a dying franchise, Star Trek isn't just a summer blockbuster, Star Trek isn't just sci-fi effect laden fun, Star Trek is an adventure, experience and humourous coming together of characters and creatures. This gives Star Wars a run for it's money and ultimately taps into something new the originals and new sequels lacked, spontaneity.

    It's not just fresh visuals and new characters the music is new also giving the whole film a fresh, reborn, vibrant feel. J.J Abrams has successfully tapped into his vein of originality, poise and vision with stunning effectiveness. LOST, Mission Impossible 3, the writing behind Cloverfield and now Star Trek show us how imaginative a director Abrams is, and that we can expect more to come from this man.
    Star Trek features some of the best effects and action sequences, to rival anything Transformers or Wolverine can throw at us. Indeed they surpass the former attempts in some cases. An example of a fight scene on planet Vulcan, on a very large coil, was an amazing adrenaline rushing experience, with swordplay and fisticuff fighting between Kirk and some Romulan assailants. The space battles were competition for Revenge of the Sith with some of the best visuals to appear to date, reminiscent of the Halo series in terms of looks and execution.

    ''Live long, and Prosper.''

    Characters are relatable and likeable to audiences. Whether it be rebellious Kirk, Intellectual Spock and their fiery relationship and clashing of personas, wonderfully played by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who strike the nail on the head perfectly. Eric Bana plays villainous Nero effortlessly, Bruce Greenwood excels as Capt. Christopher Pike, Karl Urban is likeable as the quirky witty Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, Zoe Saldana is the beautiful Nyota Uhura, Simon Pegg is the comical Scotty, John Chothe sword trained Hikaru Sulu, Anton Yelchin the Russian Pavel Chekov, Ben Cross as Sarek and Winona Ryder as Amanda Grayson Spock's Mother.

    The film has been compared to Iron Man in more than one review the similarities are clear. Both films feature excellent dialogue and character interactions, swift, clever characterization, a minimum of laborious exposition, and also have a common flaw: a rushed plot which overall is almost a side plot. The only reboot to truly escape this pitfall thus far is Casino Royale, which successfully told a very tight story and also consistently developed Bond as a character. Bana is menacing enough and his ship is well-designed but overall he's no Khan or Chang and was much better-written in the Countdown prequel comic than in the film itself. There are also a series of massive contrivances to get everything where it needs to be which will have viewers rolling their eyes, but even these are handled well by the script, which is smooth and fast as opposed to clunky and sterile. Plus, they're necessary for this origin story not to be a typical boring origin story and become what it is.

    It's a new directive, yet totally faithful to Trek where it needs to be: in spirit and inspiration. In a world of dreary blockbusters and 'dark' reboots, this Trek, though grittier in terms of design than anything before, shines, from opening to closing, as an example of optimistic, exciting, thrilling, humorous, and thoroughly enjoyable adventure action packed sci-fi cinema.

    ''Space... the final frontier.''

  • February 8, 2010
    Abrams. Orci. Kurtzman. Quinto. Nimoy. AMAZING.

    one of the best of 2009. ♥

    ** full review to come **
  • February 8, 2010
    Loyal to the original canon AND full of awesome GQMFs! Yay!
  • February 8, 2010
    Wow its brilliant, totally worthy of the TV series and all the other films that went before it, I really loved it. And Chris Pine really does seem like a young Kirk, he's got the right attitude and front to be great Kirk. I loved Simon Pegg's Scotty if a little hammy, considerin...( read more)g the original was no real Scott, it doesn't really matter that its OTT. Bones was almost exactly like the original bones, brilliant! The only let down was that John Cho just wasn't camp enough and I would have liked to see Shatner in it too. I'm shocked he wasn't!!
  • February 7, 2010
    JJ Abrams nailed it. What is it with this generation of filmmakers rejuvenating old franchises? From Batman to James Bond and now Star Trek, these prequels have all gotten it RIGHT. Their attention to story and character is what's most impressive. Star Trek has the perfect blend ...( read more)of both action and drama. The actors perfectly pay tribute to their well-known classic characters and fittingly Kirk and Spock are the two that shine the strongest. Never mind the impeccable special effects and stirring new score, this film had me in tears within the first ten minutes. And I'm not even a Trekkie! There are so many wonderful lines throughout the script and the tension never lets up for a second. Plus, the film has countless self-reverential moments that never seem to come across contrived. They work totally organic to the story. This Trek film is also, hands down, the most action packed of the series. Lastly, what's most impressive is how the writers managed to come up with not just a prequel but an actual sequel to the original series. Instead of just trying to re-start the franchise by ignoring everything that's come before; they've continued the series in a new direction, while enhancing what's come before. Truly brilliant.
  • February 7, 2010
    I have never been a Star Trek fan, but I enjoyed this movie very much. It's funny, has action and from what I gather it's true enough to the series. Kudos. Real nice job!

Critic Reviews


May 8, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

With Star Trek Abrams honors the show's legacy without fossilizing its best qualities. Instead, he's whisked it off to a planet where numbing nostalgia can't kill it, and where the future is still som... full review

May 7, 2009
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

Quinto is the one person here who may leave teen-aged viewers more perplexed than puffed up; he somehow rebukes the movie's whole obsession with backstory and immaturity by seeming riper and wiser tha... full review

May 7, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

This is really the story of how the Enterprise crew meets, hammers out its differences and becomes a team, and the telling is pure bliss. full review

May 7, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

hen it comes to sheer spectacle, Star Trek, as re-imagined by J.J. Abrams, delivers. full review

May 7, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

Abrams' redo isn't just a blast from the past. It's a blast. full review

May 6, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Gene Roddenberry years, when stories might play with questions of science, ideals or philosophy, have been replaced by stories reduced to loud and colorful action. full review

May 6, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Summer officially hits warp speed. full review

May 6, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press

This Star Trek sells cuteness, sentimentality and explosive F/X as if Starship Troopers, Minority Report, Mission to Mars or even Blade Runner or The Matrix (all visionary standard-setters) never happ... full review

May 6, 2009
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com

This brilliant reninvention of the beloved sci-fi franchise boldly (and smartly) goes where no 'Star Trek' has ever gone before. full review

May 4, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

If you care about this universe (and I do, damn it), you won't sit passively through J.J. Abrams's restart Trek. You'll marvel at the smarts and wince at the senselessness. You'll nitpick it to death ... full review

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Comments


  • romilove20
    December 28, 2009
    i didn't c this film but im exciting to c it.
  • SkywalkerJones
    December 22, 2009
    Amzaing movie.You rock,JJ Abrams.Thanks for making Star Trek cool again.
  • xudumey308
    November 20, 2009
    hi guys how are u doing
  • VEM12
    November 1, 2009
    Exciting story and good drama to excite you that the spirit of Star Trek will never die off.
  • heavyarms8808
    June 24, 2009
    extremely poor film. the plot complety destroys all other trek as the planet vulcan no longer exists! they appear to have little sense of scale and there use of physics isn't just fantastic its a load of rubish.

    the special effects are fast and slightly painful on the eyes not to mention a radical departure from all previous trek.

    where is the engine in the enginering section of the ship all it seems to be is a couple of large yellow metal tubes? and the scene in the water treatment was one of the worst and cheesyest bits of cinema in the history of humanity.

    there are a few good acting performances but everytime there on the bridge it looks like a bunch of actors standing on a set not a starship.

    most of the film is extremly predictable you see the first 2-3 seconds of a scene and pratically know how its going to end, that said the film itself seems to not know where its going and randomly jumps to a conclusion that isn't half as clever as its ment to be.
  • SkywalkerJones
    June 22, 2009
    This is one of the best eveer!I want more star trek.
  • elbolero2002
    June 2, 2009
    Should have been rated "G" for the "GARBAGE" it is. JJ Abrams deserves the "Tar & Feather Award"--then needs to be tarred and feathered--for how he spit all over the official history established in all the movies and the series (to say nothing of all the gaps filled in by the novel series). Even making an "alternate timeline" HAS to conform to plausible conclusions based on what's established. JJ...do us all a favor and stick with non-sci fi stuff and especially don't get your filthy paws on Star Trek ever again. Shame Roddenberry couldn't come out of his grave and strangle you, you loser.
  • wozzy4piggy
    May 15, 2009
    i have watched Star Trek 3 times now, can someone please tell me if scotty calls kirk captain picard, my son says he does, it happens when they r escaping the black hole, thaks.
  • darabutler2011
    April 27, 2009
    I am so excited I can't wait to see this movie
  • JD5DAD
    April 11, 2009
    I have loved star trek for years and this movie looks like it is going to have what the other movies lacked ACTION ACTION ACTION its going to ROCK

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