Over the weekend, I took the biggest fan of Star Trek to watch the movie – My Mum!! And enjoy it we both did – immensely!!
Everyone in my family are diehard Star Trek fans but none like my mother who has followed all the possible Star Trek serials be it with William Shatner as James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise or with Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard or with Kate Mulgrew as Katherine Janeway the female captain of the Enterprise (bet you didn’t know of this captain!!). All three actors did justice to their role but when one thinks of Star Trek you can only think of James Kirk a.k.a William Shatner as captain!!
The movie was different from the previous movies on Star Trek because here all the characters are introduced and are brought together to serve as the crew of the USS Enterprise. The characterizations have been done well and I think that the producers and the directors actually managed to get actors slightly resembling the veteran crew except for Uhura! Chris Pine playing the new James T. Kirk was good though he kept getting hit a lot!! A little romance was plugged in between Spock and Uhura and was totally unexpected! The special appearance by the original Spock was the icing on the cake!! Though he looks old now his voice as he raises his hand to say “Live Long and Prosper” still carries its original punch!
All in all a good movie to watch and add it to your existing Star Trek collection. And I would like to end this post with my all-time favourite lines in Star Trek history –
Space – The Final Frontier
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, its continuing mission to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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