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Star Trek (Single-Disc Edition) |  | Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: PARD348504D
UPC: 097363485049
EAN: 0097363485049
ASIN: B002HWRYJE
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: November 17, 2009 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG CREWS MAIDEN VOYAGE ONBOARD THE MOST ADVANCED STARSHIP EVER CREATED: THE USS ENTERPRISE.IN THE MIDST OF AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FULL OF OPTIMISM, INTRIGUE, COMEDY AND COSMIC PERIL, THE NEW RECRUITS MUST FIND A WAY TO STOP AN EVIL BEING WHOSE MISSION OF VENGEANCE THREATENS MANKIND.
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J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature film was billed as "not your father's Star Trek," but your father will probably love it anyway. And what's not to love? It has enough action, emotional impact, humor, and sheer fun for any moviegoer, and Trekkers will enjoy plenty of insider references and a cast that seems ideally suited to portray the characters we know they'll become later. Both a prequel and a reboot, Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine of The Princess Diaries 2), a sharp but aimless young man who's prodded by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to enlist and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a Vulcan commander named Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), but their conflict has to take a back seat when Starfleet, including its new ship, the Enterprise, has to answer an emergency call from Vulcan. What follows is a stirring tale of genocide and revenge launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we get to see the familiar crew come together, including McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin), and Scottie (Simon Pegg).The action and visuals make for a spectacular Big-Screen Movie, though the plot by Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together on Transformers and with Abrams on Alias and Mission Impossible III), and his producers (fellow Losties Damon Lindeloff and Bryan Burk) can be a bit of a mind-bender (no surprise there for Lost fans). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick may find faults, but resistance is futile when you can watch Kirk take on the Kobayashi Maru scenario or hear McCoy bark, "Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and hearing the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some sequels to this terrific prequel. --David Horiuchi
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 Deserves way more than just five stars! November 23, 2009
Amber (Georgia)
First off, I am not a Trekkie. I watched some of "The Next Generation" with my mom when I was a kid, and I know who the characters from the original series are as well as some of the events from that series, but that is pretty much it. And I still thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The action scenes were incredible, the acting was phenomenal, and I really felt myself drawn in to the characters and the story. Everyone was in character but still managed to expound on the canon, and I particularly like how the scriptwriter and director treated Spock. Everything about this movie totally rocked! I cannot possibly recommend this movie enough.
 Horrible November 23, 2009
Confederate (Bethesda, MD)
Kirk is marooned on Delta Vega. On his way to the Federation outpost there, a big bad snow creature attacks. As in STAR WARS, however, there's always a bigger fish, and one eats the smaller one and pursues Kirk to the only cave on the entire planet with Spock in it. It seems that no one hesitates these days to abuse the willing suspension of disbelief.
The new movie has some great and not so great casting. Still, someone who is familiar with STAR TREK should have done the movies. It wasn't an issue of how close they could make it to the older series, but how much different.
They should have called it SPACE DEBRIS, or better, GALAXY QUEST, PART II.
 A Whole lot of nothin' November 22, 2009
Terry Morris
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Talk about pre-hype: First off, I am a Star Trek fan. I was really waiting to see this movie, especially after all the so-called rave-reviews that were on televison. But, how disappointing the movie was (that had fine actors in it) with its lack of a credible story. The movie was all over the map that just wondered aimlessly.
I remember watching it thinking the movie is "too busy", too much like a Star Wars movie with its space battles and the crew bays with shipman departing...some were even costumed in what appeared to be Star War officer uniforms with caps to boot. Some of the aliens with their absurd character faces in the bar, another of the nurse with her over-sized eyes on the space shuttle helping to deliver old James Kirk. Granted, Star Trek has its share of wierd alien makeup, but as a whole Star Wars just seems to have a lot more cartoonish looking aliens that just didn't seem to fit well in Star Trek. Sure enough, after watching the special features, J.J. Abrams mentioned that he wanted to spice up the feel of the franchise with a Star Wars feel to it. Well, he succeeded in that, but failed miserably with the movie as a whole.
J.J. Abram needed to heed the old saying that, "less is more."
The opening scene with the Romulan space ship that looked a giant metal squid with it tentacles was ludicrous. This whole movie just seemed like a kid with too much money just "having at it" without really thinking it through and coming up with a decent story line. I think William Shatner can count his blessings that Abram's wasn't able to work him into the script, because this movie is pretty lame.
Having said all this, I would watch the next Star Trek movie that he produces, because it can't go anywhere but up. The first movie, "Star Trek, The Motion Picture" suffered from similar antics: too much specticle with little substance, but then was followed by the "Wrath of Khan." Maybe, lightning will strike twice here, and J.J. Abrams will produce a better movie the second time around.
Great Movie, Bad DVD November 22, 2009
S. A. Bennett
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really liked this movie when I saw it in the theater. So I pre-ordered it. Nice price ($9.99). Howver, the quality of the DVD is horrible. It looks like it was recorded by an amateur, with glaring reflections almost obliterating some scenes. Extremely disappointing! I would have prefered to pay more and have a good quality DVD.
The Star Trek franchise successfully reinvents itself November 22, 2009
Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
Star Trek 2009 is a hugely successful prequel to the Original Series scenario. Here, Kirk is a Midshipman at Starfleet Academy, Spock is a recent graduate, and the other members of the bridge crew are in various earlier stages of their careers. Every single one of them is well-cast in my opinion (Uhura, in particular, is excellent, and incredibly beautiful if I may say so).
The storyline is gripping, and despite almost too much action, it holds the viewer's interest at all times. By the way, the casting of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda is impeccable, and Amanda is ravishing in this prequel. No wonder Sarek fell in love with her!
The special effects in this film are spectacular, and beautiful. One anomaly, if that is what it is, is that this USS Enterprise (under command of Captain Pike) is cooler and more high tech than the original, or even than most of the Enterprise incarnations in the various films. No matter, I liked that.
Star Trek purists may have some problems with this film because it is not entirely consistent with the Star Trek universe as most of us understood it. Spock for a time is senior to Kirk, for example. Further, I always had the understanding that Kirk and Spock did not know one another, at least not well, until Kirk relieved Captain Pike as commander of the USS Enterprise. Well, this film does away with that notion! Obviously this was necessary if the main characters of the original series, i.e. Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Chekov, Sulu, McCoy, were to have major roles in this story, as indeed they do. I'll say it again: the casting here was just superb.
Inconsistencies aside, this film absolutely reinvigorates the Star Trek franchise in a big way. I am certain that all fans of Star Trek will love this film, and it will no doubt capture new adherents from the younger set. The casting is so good that the ground is set for many sequels of this prequel, I trust and hope.
Highly recommended. RJB.
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