by Manny The Movie Guy

Created on: May 27, 2009

In the Star Trek universe, The Undiscovered Country to be exact, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) once asked Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) if they have outlived their usefulness. Have no fear folks, in the new Star Trek reboot, director J.J. Abrams found a way to make all the characters useful once again.

The greatest aspect of the film is its intelligent script. Like Spock, the screenplay is part emotional, part logical and 100% amazing! Abrams' film boldly goes where no other remakes have gone before. He actually made a compelling and fresh film from a source material that's over forty years old.

Star Trek is an entertaining story about two bitter rivals born worlds apart. One, James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine), is a smart but hotheaded Iowa farm boy who's a rebel without a cause. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), grows up in the planet Vulcan and is an outcast due to his half-human background.

Spock is the first of his kind to be accepted into the Starfleet Academy. His meticulous logic becomes the antithesis to Kirk's unmitigated passion. Both are fighting each other to be among the special few chosen to join the crew of the most advanced starship ever created, the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the duo who gave us Transformers, the script is smart for focusing on the characters. If you're a fan of the Star Trek franchise, you will love the way each character is introduced into the narrative.

The U.S.S. Enterprise is headed by Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood). Joining him are the ship's Medical Officer Leonard Bones McCoy (the funny Karl Urban); the ship's eventual Chief Engineer, Montgomery Scotty Scott (Simon Pegg); Communications Officer Uhura (Zoe Saldana); Helmsman Sulu (John Cho); and the 17-year old prodigy Chekov (Anton Yelchin).

The crew's untried loyalty is put to the test by the arrival of Nero (Eric Bana), a time-travelling Romulan who's holding a really mean grudge. But the crew has a time-tested ally in the form of the old Spock, played by the great Leonard Nimoy.

Nimoy is the heart of the film. His presence is the glue that binds the original Star Trek with the 2009 reboot. Your heart will flutter with joy when you see the old Spock (he's now credited as Spock Prime) giving advice to the young Spock about the importance of human emotion.

By bringing the Star Trek franchise back to its roots, Abrams was able to pump new life to the characters we all know and love. Their

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