Star Trek XI, good mannered or a bold sci-fi movie?

by Alex Vermeule posted May 14th, 2009 at 17:42

Star Trek has always been the most decent kid in the Sci-Fi class. You will never hear any inappropriate words and almost always get a happy ending.

The new Start Trek-movie called Star Trek XI had its world wide launch about a week ago. When looking at the trailer, you see young Kirk, Spock and some fantastic visual effects. So no surprises there (except for Zachary Quinto aka Sylar from Heroes playing young Mr. Spock). Any geek and ‘Trekkie’ (like me ) is probably going to checkout this movie soon.

However, will it also attract a larger audience?

Besides the special effects and the cast, you get the change to

• See Leonard Nimoy (age 78) in action, probably for the last time as Mr. Spock Prime.
• See Winona Ryder in action as mother of Mr. Spock.
• See Dutch kickbox champion Lucia Rijker play a Romulan.
• Hear Majel Barret, the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, for the last time as the voice of the main computer (she passed away last December).

The real ace up this movie’s sleeve is that it’s got a great producer and director: J.J. Abrams, best known for creating the series Lost. Next week Monday I will be checking out Star Trek XI in the IMAX theatre in Amsterdam and truly hope we are going to see a darker, less perfect world and characters. Also the new brigde is supposedly ‘look even slicker than an Apple store’, according to Abrams, inspiring the design/geek in all of us.

Have you seen this movie? What did you think? Bold Sci-Fi or still good mannered?

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