Having been a fan and almost a die hard follower of Mr. Spock’s logical deductions and Dr. ’Bones’ McCoy’s illogical outbursts, it was definitely - a moving experience - to re-live the characters and their beginnings through this tale of where it all began..
Star Trek.. the beginning of the future is an interesting saga of where it all ’mythically and logically’ began.First of all full marks to J J Abrams to bring this adaptation to the big screen after the Star Trek original series big screen adaptations.
The SFX by Industrial Light and Magic surely gave a very realistic spectacle of not just space, but the futuristic look to Earth, with the setting of IOWA in the future, and the planet Vulcan..Awonderful set worth the money..Watching the hypothetical beginnings of James T Kirk, the logically Vulcan commander Mr. Spock and Dr. ’Bones’ McCoy along with the dramatically presented appearances of the likes of ("beam me up") Scottie, Chekov and the tactical Mr. Sulu brought an amazing rush of old TV memories and a flood of emotions with them...
The story weaves in the charming Lt. Uhura’s beginnings also, along with tit-bits of Mr.Spock’s human feelings - as half human and in part, his emotions for her...Pleasantly surprised and completely in awe of the presence of Leonard Nimoy.. as the Original Mr. Spock of the series, in the movie.. Somewhere then I thought I imbibed unintentionally, the mythical personification of being logic and the essence of logicality from this one character..
Was wishing somehow that William Shatner also would have joined the party somewhere in some form.. off his Boston Legal presence for a change..Moving and touching for those who have been followers of the original TV series.. and an absolute must watch for them..For our new generation... maybe the series of movies need to come back onto the big screen again...
Much like the George Lucas’ Star Wars Series...I could go on and on but I must say that some witty repartee in the dialogues and an intermix of some amazing time travel tales of some key characters makes this a must watch to get the grasp of where and how it REALLY all began.. the TV tales of the "Voyages of StarShipEnterprise.."
The last shot - with the USS E departing on it’s missions into space with Leonard Nimoy’s closing narrative - "Space the final frontier... these are the voyages of the StarShip enterprise... " connected me back to the unforgettable and immortal Captain James T Kirk’s opening narrative in the original TV series... the series used to begin with these same lines...
- enough to give me goosebumps..
All-in-all, a must watch - ON THE BIG SCREEN - for those who have grown up with TV version of the Star Trek U S S Enterprise visits every Sunday morning on good ’ol Doordarshan of the80s..And for the later generations.. if you can fathom the feelings of sense of awe and a sense of deja-vu of the good old times..if you have heard from your parents and or grandparents the tales of this TV series.. you could gift them as how to re-live their wonderful moments of the good old times when SpaceTravel per se was just a figment of one’s imagination and Hollywood putthis figment of imagination through a test of reality through the adaptation of Gene Roddenbury’s Star Trek on TV.
How logically has the past of a past, been brought back into the present to take one back into the past of it’s future... which eventually was in the past...
made me wonder if those good old times will ever come back. Hollywood sure has a ’magical’ and logical way to touch the inner beings..Maythe souls of the characters of this wonderful series who have passed away with the glory of STAR TREK with them.... rest at peace