Star Trek (Single-Disc Edition) |  | Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: PARD348504D
UPC: 097363485049
EAN: 0097363485049
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: November 17, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG CREWS MAIDEN VOYAGE ONBOARD THE MOST ADVANCED STARSHIP EVER CREATED: THE USS ENTERPRISE.IN THE MIDST OF AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FULL OF OPTIMISM, INTRIGUE, COMEDY AND COSMIC PERIL, THE NEW RECRUITS MUST FIND A WAY TO STOP AN EVIL BEING WHOSE MISSION OF VENGEANCE THREATENS MANKIND.
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J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature film was billed as "not your father's Star Trek," but your father will probably love it anyway. And what's not to love? It has enough action, emotional impact, humor, and sheer fun for any moviegoer, and Trekkers will enjoy plenty of insider references and a cast that seems ideally suited to portray the characters we know they'll become later. Both a prequel and a reboot, Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine of The Princess Diaries 2), a sharp but aimless young man who's prodded by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to enlist and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a Vulcan commander named Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), but their conflict has to take a back seat when Starfleet, including its new ship, the Enterprise, has to answer an emergency call from Vulcan. What follows is a stirring tale of genocide and revenge launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we get to see the familiar crew come together, including McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin), and Scottie (Simon Pegg).The action and visuals make for a spectacular Big-Screen Movie, though the plot by Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together on Transformers and with Abrams on Alias and Mission Impossible III), and his producers (fellow Losties Damon Lindeloff and Bryan Burk) can be a bit of a mind-bender (no surprise there for Lost fans). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick may find faults, but resistance is futile when you can watch Kirk take on the Kobayashi Maru scenario or hear McCoy bark, "Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and hearing the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some sequels to this terrific prequel. --David Horiuchi
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 Boldly Going to War. November 25, 2009
K. Ostrowski
You know, it's funny. I've said, in the past, that I hate movies based on things, but when I look at the movies I've watched over the last ten years, the vast majority of them have been based on something. So be it, then. Maybe I just like to risk causing myself unreasonable pain and suffering.
Fortunately, I didn't find myself experiencing such unreasonable suffering with Abrams' remake of Star Trek, though I couldn't say I really enjoyed it either.
This movie did a lot of things right, which is more than I can say for most movies based on things, so before I get into the gripes, let me tell you what it got right.
First, there are scenes of people flying through space in starships. Their technology is mostly workable and realistically-portrayed, with the exception of one scene of a voice-recognition program that apparently can't penetrate an accent. Most of the character portrayals are dead-on and believable, and someone in red armor dies at one point. There's a plot involving time travel that needs to be resolved, and James Kirk handles the no-win test in the same way we heard about during previous Star Trek movies.
That may seem like a lot of things to get right, to the point where the movie should deserve a high grade, but I'm afraid that it got quite a few things wrong as well. Most people who've never heard of Star Trek before won't notice most of these, but then, those people are probably in comas or hiding under rocks, and won't notice this movie either, so here goes.
First, this movie is a movie about war, and the Federation is depicted as an armada, yet, without the strict, military discipline that was previously Star Trek's defining characteristic. This is a complete reversal on nearly every level. What made classic Star Trek stand out from every other science fiction series before and since then was that in Star Trek, the characters didn't need to fight everything they came across. Most of the time, the solution could be arrived at peacefully, and frequently, it was just a matter of thinking about the problem a certain way. Furthermore, military discipline was the overall mood of everything Star Trek; which differentiated it from Star Wars, where there was little or no discipline among the heroes.
Because of that, this movie is basically what the Star Wars prequels should have been. It has the right mood, feel and genre to be another Star Wars movie, and fans of Star Wars will probably enjoy it as well. However, it doesn't have the sense of peace that Star Trek radiated. In fact, most of the movie is spent in mindless fighting.
Still, that's something that most other Star Trek movies also got wrong, so I won't come down on the movie too hard for that.
Secondly, in this movie, Mister Spock is fiery and emotional, and so is James Kirk. Neither of them shows any signs of maturity or responsibility, and that makes many of their interactions painful to watch. Showing Starfleet officers as young people can work as long as they act mature, but removing their maturity carries all the feeling of a bratty toddler aiming a phaser at your head. These are not the kind of people you want to trust the fate of the Earth to, and no. That's not a good thing.
Unfortunately, when robbed of his logic and self-control, Mister Spock becomes an abrasive, selfish, arrogant jerk; easily infuriated by the people around him. There's nothing left of the Spock seen in previous films and episodes. Just the fact that Spock seems to be the most emotional member of the crew should have told Abrams that he was on the wrong track in this respect, though. Kirk, in turn, when he stops acting calm and composed, comes off as a hyper, overeager, self-centered and overconfident fool with a tendency to throw himself on women, and hope they give him the chance to take advantage of them. The idea of him being in control of the Enterprise is more of a crime than a joy in that state. In fact, at every stage, Abrams seemed determined to bring out and exaggerate the worst qualities of each of the two main characters, or even fabricate new ones, which does nothing to inspire or delight those who originally looked to Star Trek for hope that the future would be filled with maturity, peace, and intelligent thought.
I should also mention here that the plot of trying to rewrite canon Star Trek into a new, less-mature, less-likable timeline is a rotten thing to do, and I refuse to accept it, because I enjoyed the first Star Trek series' so much, and this so little, but it doesn't make a huge impact on me, because, as I said, my mind refuses to accept it.
On a much more minor note, I should say that given how far in the future this apparently takes place, I was disappointed with the appearance of the Enterprise engine room. Every other part of the ship seems nice and spiffy, but the engine room looks like a beer brewery, and there's no good reason for that. Antimatter fusion definitely does not make use of water as a coolant, nor are huge, bulky water tubes needed to keep the engines going.
The depictions of Earth and Vulcan are both nearly unforgivable. For starters, the vulcans are shown to have prejudice against Spock, despite their logic, which is entirely different from the way things originally were; probably intended to make me hate the planet Vulcan, so I wouldn't mind so much, when Abrams decided to blow it up later on. However, as much as Abrams made me hate Vulcan, he made me hate Earth a lot more. His depictions of Earth contained no scenes of good people living peacefully. Nearly every scene involved some kind of war, violence or sex; sometimes more than one of those things. How am I supposed to root for the good guys if they absolutely refuse to be good? Honestly, as much of a psychopath as the bad guy was, he at least seemed to take his actions seriously, to the point where I really would have rather just let him win.
So having said all this, why didn't I rate the movie lower? Well, the characters of Uhura, Mccoy, Chekov and Sulu were all very faithfully depicted. Scotty was a little much, but it was nice to see Leonard Nimoy again, if only as a guest chatacter. It also shouldn't be said that I can't appreciate a good action sequence or some nice dialogue, and the story isn't a bad one. As I said, it's just not Star Trek.
So in the end; no. This movie didn't cause me unreasonable pain and suffering; just the moderate kind. I didn't find it enjoyable, I wouldn't watch it again, and I certainly wouldn't watch a sequel to it, but in terms of what it gets right and wrong, this movie is a middle-of-the-road kind of experience. It's average, so average is the grade that I'll give it, in spite of my personal disappointment over the opportunities they wasted.
 I rolled my eyes at the beginning of the trailer...then "BAM!" I was hooked! November 25, 2009
Catnip (NY)
Yes, I thought, "Oh Lord, not another one!" Esp. since I was a fan of the original series and not any of the others. You can't top the first one out of the gate. Then I saw that this was a pre-series character discovery. The more of the trailer I saw the more I was thinking, "Ok, I have to see this!" That night(I saw the trailer in the theater before the James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace") I got onto Netflix and added Star Trek to my queue, so I wouldn't forget.
Months later, I received it in the mail and was thoroughly entertained, impressed, etc... The story was a little thin, not bad though. There were things that bothered me, the whole Vulcan being destroyed, but then, thankfully, Spock came to the rescue. My concern was that they weren't following anything from many of the previous Star Trek movies. Vulcan hadn't been destroyed, etc...they were changing so many things. But, then Spock came about and talked about how all their destiny's had been changed because that nasty dude, Nero, came through and destroyed that ship and killed Kirks dad and so forth. Things had totally been changed, I needed that pointed out, made things clearer, and whenever I got a tad confused I went back to that.
The characters were great! The people playing them were spot on! Quinto was vintage Spock. Kirk, handsome and rebellious, Bones, pissy and emotional with his little quirks; Scotty, what can I say freakin funny (LOL), Sulu, Chekov, his speaking was funny and sweet and he played the roll great...all perfect. The humor was fantastic and not over the top but placed perfectly. I was bothered at times, like when they eject Kirk and maroon him on that frozen ice cube, seemed to get a tad off topic but then it quickly showed why. Had to get to the older Spock and then find Scotty (who was a freakin hoot!)
The music wasn't the greatest, seemed campy, maybe they wanted it that way. Loved the way they filmed it, imperfect and real, light flares everywhere, made it authentic. I'm sick of people always going for perfection, that takes away the realism sometimes. Abrams did a fantastic job and I hope he'll happily sign-on and do another one. They left it wide open for more to come, and I very much hope they do!
Excellent November 25, 2009
J.L.A. (Missouri United States)
I am not surprised at some of the negative reviews. I suppose for die-hard Trekkies there are things that would upset them. However, I consider myself a moderate Trekkie and I loved this movie. The effects are awesome, the cast was great and the story was interesting. Sure, they changed the Star Trek universe time-line. They had to refresh the series. Anyone who truly knows how time-travel (in the Star Trek world) works knows this is hardly a big deal.
The new Star Trek timeline opens up a new pathway for the series and makes it new and refreshing. They would hardly have done well to just remake what we've already seen.
There are a few things in this new movie that bothered me, like Spock and Uhura hooking up. The other things are kind of hard to describe, but none of these things detracted (at least for me) from an exciting movie that I hope brings a whole new generation of people to a wonderful franchise as well as future awesome movies.
 Blechhh ... Micheal Dunn would be Embarrassed. November 25, 2009
Steve D. Heckenlively (Camarillo, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The actors can't save the writing in this movie. Quinto and Urban are notable; I see hints they may have studied other Trek actors besides Nimoy and Kelley, namely Russ and Picardo. They deserve better than this driftwood of a flick ...
I was hoping for something on the same level as Tim Burton's remake of "Planet of the Apes", but "ST" doesn't come close. I'm not knocking JJ Abrams, but when a good director is forced to work in a straightjacket, you get mud. Blame Hollywood, which really doesn't know anymore why people would want to see a movie, nor why anyone would want to *make* a movie.
After the TV series "Enterprise" was cancelled, one of the Trek producer/writers said "We went to the well once too often." Six months later this movie was announced. It was a very bad idea then, and it is almost as bad a fact, now. So much hard work, and so little to show for it in the end. Ugh ...
What should you buy instead? I don't know, try a big-ticket release from the not-so-recent past, and tell us about it. Ever wonder who "They" are? Check out the movie "Them", ah-hahahahahah ...
Smiles Smiles Smiles November 24, 2009
Victoria Lord (Catonsville, Maryland United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This wonderful film is exciting, humorous, touching, thrilling. The DVD extras are great too. Highly recommend.
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