Star Trek (2009)

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Writers:

Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman,

Stars:

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy

Top 250 #223 | Won 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 50 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Pine	...	Kirk
Zachary Quinto	...	Spock
Leonard Nimoy	...	Spock Prime
Eric Bana	...	Nero
Bruce Greenwood	...	Pike
Karl Urban	...	Bones
Zoe Saldana	...	Uhura (as Zoë Saldana)
Simon Pegg	...	Scotty
John Cho	...	Hikaru Sulu
Anton Yelchin	...	Chekov
Ben Cross	...	Sarek
Winona Ryder	...	Amanda Grayson
Chris Hemsworth	...	George Kirk
Jennifer Morrison	...	Winona Kirk
Rachel Nichols	...	Gaila

Storyline

On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien time-traveling vessel looking for Ambassador Spock, who, in this time, is also a child on Vulcan disdained by his neighbors for his half-human heritage. Twenty-five years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. Challenged by Captain Christopher Pike to realize his potential in Starfleet, he comes to annoy instructors like young Commander Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself, thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever as a new version of it begins.

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Plot Keywords:

captain | vulcan | romulan | alien | planet | 

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Taglines:

The future begins.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 May 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Star Trek XI

Filming Locations:

Bakersfield, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$140,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£5,950,203 (UK) (8 May 2009)

Gross:

$257,704,099 (USA) (25 September 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Bad Robot

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min

Sound Mix:

DTS SDDS Dolby Digital Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to Simon Pegg, J.J. Abrams wanted to emphasize the size of the ship and gave the Engine Room a highly industrial appearance; he explained to Pegg that he was inspired by Titanic, which depicted "a sleek ship with an incredible gut."

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Goofs

After the Narada comes through the black hole the next shot shows the bridge of the Kelvin and the red alert klaxon is playing. Next, the helmsman says "I have a reading, they've locked weapons on us." The captain then announces red alert even though the klaxon is already playing.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Communication Operator: U.S.S. Kelvin, go for Starfleet Base.
Kelvin Crew Member: Starfleet Base, we've sent you a transmission. Did you receive?
Starfleet Base: Kelvin, have you double-checked those readings?
Kelvin Crew Member: Our gravitational sensors are going crazy here. You should see this. It looks like a lightning storm.
Starfleet Base: What you've sent us doesn't seem possible.
Kelvin Crew Member: Yes ma'am. I understand. That's why we sent it.

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Crazy Credits

There are no opening credits in the film except for the title card, making this the second consecutive Star Trek film that doesn't list its cast at the beginning.

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Connections

Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: 2012/The Messenger/Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Awadoruk Jam"
Written & Performed by Cyrano Jones
Courtesy of Bad Robot Music and Video LLC

User Reviews

Great movie

Apparently a lot of die-hard trekkies hate this film, but I doubt anyone could make a film that would satisfy them.

I personally loved the movie, I'm not a trekkie, far from to be honest, but this one was great.

I've seen all the old movies, and liked them, my girlfriend hates them though, she watched a whole 15 minutes of the one where they go back to earth in the 80's and hated it.

So she was obviously extremely suspecious when I rented this movie, but she ended up being extremely excited about it, and said that she'd deffo watch any sequel to this new version of star trek.

And I personally liked it more than the old star trek movies.

It's abit like James Bond, the new James Bond movies are very different to the original ones with Sean Connery.