Star Trek is a 2009 science fiction film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the eleventh film based on the Star Trek franchise and features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series, who are portrayed by a new cast. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The story establishes an alternate reality through time-travel by both Nero and the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy), freeing the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints.
Development of the film began in 2005. The production's aim was to be faithful to the Star Trek canon, modifying continuity with the time-travel storyline, and modernizing the production design of the original show. Filming took place from November 2007 to March 2008 under intense secrecy. Midway through the shoot, Paramount chose to delay the release date from December 25, 2008 to May 2009, believing the film could reach a wider audience.
Star Trek earned high critical praise, gaining a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2009 — fifth-highest within North America — and has become the highest-grossing film in the Star Trek series and is credited by the media as a reboot of the series.
Plot
The Federation starship USS Kelvin is investigating a massive lightning storm in space, when a Romulan ship, the Narada , emerges from within the storm, overpowers them, and demands their captain, Robau, transport to their ship. When questioned by the Romulan captain Nero, Robau professes no knowledge of the Vulcan Ambassador Spock, and that the year is 2233, prompting the Romulans to realize that they have somehow traveled back in time. Nero kills Robau and orders the Kelvin' s destruction. Acting Captain George Samuel Kirk, Sr. orders the evacuation of the ship onto shuttlecrafts, including his pregnant wife Wynona, who is entering labor. While he sacrifices his life to steer the Kelvin on a collision course into the Narada , he leaves open a communications channel and hears his wife give birth. He names his new son James before the collision, which destroys the Kelvin but only damages the Narada while the shuttlecraft escape.
Several years later, a young Vulcan named Spock grows up on planet Vulcan and eventually joins Starfleet. On Earth, James Tiberius Kirk has a run-in at a local bar where Captain Christopher Pike challenges him to emulate his father's heroism, inviting him to join Starfleet, which he accepts. Three years later, Kirk draws the ire of Spock by cheating during the Kobayashi Maru test, which was written by him. During Kirk's suspension hearing, Starfleet receives a distress signal from Vulcan and with the primary fleet away, the cadets are mobilized to help crew the ships in orbit. Leonard McCoy smuggles Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise . Onboard, Kirk warns Pike that the fleet is heading into a trap. The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan to find the fleet destroyed and the Narada drilling into the planet's core. The Narada attacks the Enterprise and Nero orders Pike to surrender himself. Pike agrees, promoting Spock to captain and Kirk to first officer. En route to the Narada , Kirk and Hikaru Sulu perform an orbital skydive onto the drilling platform and destroy it. Nero launches red matter into the planet's core which creates a black hole within it. As the planet is destroyed, Spock rescues some of the planet's elders, but his mother dies along with the majority of the planet's population. Nero sets a course for Earth.
After a heated argument with Spock, Kirk is marooned on Delta Vega for mutiny. On the planet, Kirk encounters Ambassador Spock, who tells Kirk he is from the future and to save time, relays his story through a mind meld. The Ambassador explains that, in the year 2387, he was on a mission to stop a supernova from destroying the galaxy by using the red matter to create a black hole to consume it. Before he could enact his plan, the supernova had destroyed the planet Romulus. Nero, one of the few surviving Romulans, plotted his revenge on Spock. During his attack on Spock, both were caught in the event horizon of the black hole, sending them back in time; the Narada arrived first, and when Spock eventually appeared, they captured his ship, and stranded him on Delta Vega to watch Vulcan's destruction.
Ambassador Spock insists that Kirk must become captain of the Enterprise and the two travel to a nearby Starfleet outpost. There, they meet Montgomery Scott who beams onto the Enterprise with Kirk. Once aboard, Kirk deliberately enrages Commander Spock to force him to acknowledge that he is emotionally compromised, thereby forfeiting command to Kirk. The crew devises a plan to ambush the Narada by hiding behind Saturn's moon, Titan, and once there, Kirk and Spock beam aboard the Narada . Kirk rescues Pike while Spock retakes Ambassador Spock's ship, destroys the drill, and lures the Narada away from Earth before piloting a collision course. The Enterprise arrives and beams Kirk, Pike, and Spock away. Spock's ship and the Narada collide, which ignites the remaining red matter destroying both ships and creating a black hole. The Enterprise escapes by ejecting and then igniting the ship's warp core, with the resulting explosion pushing them clear of the black hole.
Back on Earth, Kirk is promoted to captain of the Enterprise and Captain Pike to Admiral. Soon after, Spock encounters his older self in a hangar. Ambassador Spock is departing to help establish a new colony with the remaining Vulcans. The younger Spock informs his older self of his wishes to leave Starfleet to aid his people. Ambassador Spock tells his younger self that he and Kirk need each other and that he should do what feels right. Taking his advice, Spock remains in Starfleet, becoming first officer under Kirk's command.
Cast
- Chris Pine as James T. Kirk. Pine described his first audition as awful, because he could not take himself seriously as a leader. Abrams did not see Pine's first audition, and it was only after Pine's agent met Abrams' wife that the director decided to give him another audition opposite Quinto. Quinto was supportive of Pine's casting because they knew each other as they worked out at the same gym. After getting the part, Pine sent William Shatner a letter and received a reply containing Shatner's approval. Pine watched classic episodes and read encyclopedias about the Star Trek universe, but stopped as he felt weighed down by the feeling he had to copy Shatner. Pine felt he had to show Kirk's "humor, arrogance and decisiveness", but not Shatner's speech pattern, which would have bordered on imitation. Pine said when watching the original series, he was also struck by how Shatner's performance was characterized by humor. Instead, Pine chose to incorporate elements of Tom Cruise from Top Gun and Harrison Ford's portrayals of Indiana Jones and Han Solo.
- Jimmy Bennett plays James Kirk as a boy.
- Zachary Quinto as Spock. Quinto expressed interest in the role because of the duality of Spock's half-human, half Vulcan heritage, and how "he is constantly exploring that notion of how to evolve in a responsible way and how to evolve in a respectful way. I think those are all things that we as a society, and certainly the world, could implement." He mentioned he heard about the new film and revealed his interest in the role in a December 2006 interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : the article was widely circulated and he attracted Abrams' interest. For the audition, Quinto wore a blue shirt and flattened his hair down to feel more like Spock. He bound his fingers to practice the Vulcan salute, shaved his eyebrows and grew and dyed his hair for the role. He conveyed many of Spock's attributes, such as his stillness and the way Nimoy would hold his hands behind his back. Quinto commented the physical transformation aided in portraying an alien, joking "I just felt like a nerd. I felt like I was 12 again. You look back at those pictures and you see the bowl cut. There's no question I was born to play the Spock role. I was sporting that look for a good four or five years." Adrien Brody had discussed playing the role with the director before Quinto was cast.
- Jacob Kogan plays Spock as a child.
- Leonard Nimoy reprises his role as the elder Spock (referred to in the ending credits as Spock Prime), who has come from the future. Nimoy befriended Quinto after being cast in the role. Although Quinto watched some episodes of the show during breaks in filming, Nimoy was his main resource in playing Spock. Nimoy also chose the actor who portrayed his character "Spock" in the movie. Abrams and the writers met Nimoy at his house; writer Roberto Orci recalled the actor gave a " 'Who are you guys and what are you up to?' vibe" before being told how important he was to them. He was silent, and Nimoy's wife Susan Bay told the creative team he had remained in his chair after their conversation, emotionally overwhelmed by his decision after turning down many opportunities to revisit the role. Had Nimoy disliked the script, production would have been
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