Star Trek - 2009

I love it. I know some trekkers don't so much because it changes everything, from the start it creates an alternate reality in which what we know may never have happened, who knows, we are back in the past. But in a way that's why I like it, because it was a great way to bring it back, and now it's fresh and young people (or people who have never watched it) can start from here if they want and enjoy it, and this means there could be lots and lots more! I also love the way they did it, which is to start from the beginning, describing the characters for those who don't know them, but still having lots of things for a fan like me. The only thing that left me puzzled was hearing Uhura ordering a Cardassian Sunrise. Do they know the Cardassians already? Their world is far far away...
I mean the only thing character-wise, there are some other things that puzzle me science-wise...
First thing first, we meet Kirk senior, right where the things go different, which is when old Spock and the villain Nero come back from the future and change everything. Nero attacks them and kills the captain, so Kirk acts as captain during the minutes (12 I think) of the battle; Nero destroys the ship, and they have to evacuate, but they would never make it under Nero's ship's fire, so Kirk stays on his ship and covers their escape, saves a lot of people including his wife and kid. It was a moving scene, very heroic, and he gets to name the child: not Tiberius like his father because it's terrible (:-p) but Jim like her father :-)  We see Kirk's mother for a bit (Jennifer Morrison, one of the main stars in Once Upon a Time). Then we meet young Jim Kirk and young Spock, who is mistreated from the other Vulcan kids because of his human mother. Those kids are big bullies to be Vulcan, but after all they've not gone through the ritual that purges them from emotions yet... and they make him angry insulting his mother, so he fights with them. Well done, young Spock!
Of course his father goes all logical on him, saying that marrying his mother was the logical thing to do, but later on he'll admit to adult Spock that he married her because he loved her, pretty much like he did in an episode of the original series. I love that scene, it's very important and moving.
Once they've grown up, we see Spock being accepted at the Vulcan academy but refusing the honor to join Starfleet (these Vulcan are real racist, aren't they?); we see Kirk in a bar fight being persuaded to join the Starfleet academy (well, challenged by Pike to do as well as his father did), where he meets doctor Leonard McCoy, all grumpy because he hates flying, and saying that a divorce has left him only the bones.. :-p
 We understand that Spock is older because he's the one who programmed the famous Kobayashi-maru test for the last 4 years, and like the Kirk we used to know this one finds a way to cheat! I admit I was totally on Spock's side here, Kirk cheated making a spectacle of the test, really not understanding the purpose of it at all.
It's funny when Kirk asks who is the pointy-ears-jerk and Bones says I don't know, but I like him :lol: well, probably funnier if you know them already.
Uhura is studying at the academy too, but is very decisive and won't accept to be assigned to another ship, she wants to be on the Enterprise, so he satisfys her 'request'. Kirk shouldn't be there because of the 'cheating' problem, but Bones makes him ill so he can bring him on the Enterprise to cure him: Bones is the funniest! I was laughing a lot every time Bones gave Kirk a shot, because I was thinking that he was like the Bones I knew, always ready to inject people with something :-p
When we saw Uhura and Spock kissing I was thrilled, because I've always liked them together, since the first time he played music for her and Uhura started singing "his alien love could victimise" in the original series (not 100% sure of the words, without checking). I'm so happy that they are an item, here, I love them together!
Nero blames Spock for the destruction of Romulus, although he was only trying to help (the Empire is not gone, just a planet, right?). So he does the same thing to him.
It was sad when Vulcan was destroyed and Spock's mother died, very sad indeed, and the expression on Spock's face was heartbreaking :'(
Apparently our old Spock came here from 129 years in the future, and when he finally appears, that was a great moment! I love every scene with him. He meets Kirk when Spock throws him out of the Enterprise and he finds himself on an iced planet with dangerous beasts, and  old-Spock helps him. They talk and he explains to Kirk what he must do. It was great to see our old Spock again! Legend!
They go see Scotty because they need him to get Kirk back on his ship.
Scotty being punished for 'losing' Admiral Archer's beagle was something (sad for Porthos, of course) , it states clearly how the ENT series is the only one not affected by any change, being set before Kirk's time! Although I admit it is a bit puzzling because it should be set long before Kirk's time, not just before. Archer made the first trip of the humans with a ship that at the beginning didn't have a functioning teleport, and it lasted 4 years, until they created the Federation. Of course sooner or later he was made an admiral, but for Porthos to be still alive, it would mean not many years have passed... but again, details we can accept as they are.
Kirk and Scotty get back aboard the Enterprise, and Kirk provokes Spock like old-Spock told him to do: get from him an emotional response in order to become himself the captain of the ship. He starts about Nero, himself, Vulcan, but then he tells Spock he didn't care about his mother and never loved her and Spock loses it :-p I love that :-D
Spock beats him a little and almost chokes him - and nobody says or does anything, either too shocked to see their Vulcan act like that or unable to decide if they can do anything being all young and being Spock their captain at the moment; yes, because on the bridge they are all young, they were all cadets.
Only Sarek calls his name and eventually Spock stops and resigns his post because too emotionally involved :!!! It's then that Sarek follows him and tells him that he married his mother because he loved her! And that's big! It also shows how Vulcans do have emotions: sometimes people say that they don't have them, but they do, their emotions were very strong and that's why they found a way to control them and win them. They bury them deep.
So, this Kirk is now Captain: that's how fate works, he was about to be thrown out, or at least punished for cheating, but due to the extreme circumstances he ends up being the Captain, in the end. Makes you think of the Voyager series, doesn't it?
Now he can do what he wanted to do, go after Nero. They stop him when he tries to do the same to Earth as he did to Vulcan; Kirk and Spock go on his ship and I love the scene where Spock is so sure that Kirk has his back that he melts with a Romulan not caring about the other Romulans around.
I also love the scene when Kirk saves Pike and Pike picks up his gun and shoots two men behind Kirk - he may very well be in need of medical attention, but he is a captain and can stand his own.
So, our heroes win, Kirk is officially the captain of the Enterprise and Admiral Pike is on a wheelchair.
And what about Uhura's beautiful happy smile when Spock is made first officer at the end, and so he can continue on the Enterprise with her?  'yeaaaah , my boyfriend, we're still together!!!!'
I love it! I could go on watching it 100 times!
I love it because it's new and modern but still the characters are the characters I knew, they reflect perfectly the essence of the ones I know :-)

Just a word about the science, though. Do black holes last forever, as long as there is something to eat in their galaxy? Does this mean that they created a black hole where Vulcan was and that that black hole will stay there now? Does this also mean that they created a very big, a huuuuge black hole not too far from Earth when Nero's ship was destroyed? Black holes can't be closed, can they? Because if they are still there, they would change a lot of things in the entire galaxy....


Kirk was Chris Pine, Spock was Zachary Quinto (great) , Uhura =Zoe Saldana, Spock Prime=Leonard Nimoy, Nero=Eric Bana, Bones=Karl Urban , Scotty=Simon Pegg , Sulu=John Cho , Chekov=Anton Yelchin .
Chris Hemsworth was George Kirk, and Winona Ryder was Amanda, Spock's mother.