Star Trek (2009)

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Star Trek
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Producer:

J.J. Abrams

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Release Date:

May 8, 2009

Website:

StarTrekMovie.com

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Star Trek is a chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. The movie creates a clean break from TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY continuity -- nothing in the movie or any of its sequels needs to be consistent with events from those series or related movies. Whether the rebooted franchise will attempt to be consistent with ENT continuity remains to be seen.

Synopsis (obviously full of spoilers)

Act One

A strange starship emerges from a black hole and attacks the Federation starship USS Kelvin. The commander of the strange ship contacts the Kelvin, demanding that the captain fly over in a shuttle to discuss surrender terms. The Kelvin's captain agrees, leaving Lieutenant George Kirk in command.

On the alien ship, its Romulan captain -- Nero -- first asks the Federation captain where he can find Spock, and when the commander doesn't know, he asks to know the stardate. Upon learning that, he kills the Kelvin's captain. Lt. Kirk orders the evacuation of the Kelvin and pilots it into the Romulan ship, buying time for the ship's crew -- including his wife and newborn son -- to escape.

Act Two

George Kirk's son, James T. Kirk, grows up without his father. While brilliant, he is a rebellious underachiever. A chance encounter with Captain Christopher Pike convinces him to join Starfleet.

Meanwhile, on Vulcan, Spock -- born of a Vulcan father and a human mother -- has difficulty deciding how he wants to lead his life. Feeling that the Vulcan Science Academy has insulted him by accepting his application "in spite of" his human ancestry, he chooses to join Starfleet.

Kirk completes the four-year Starfleet Academy training program in three years, but is accused of cheating on the "Kobayshi Maru" test. His accuser is Spock, who designed the test. Before the matter is decided, however, Starfleet scrambles all of the cadets to respond to a planetary emergency on Vulcan. Although suspended from duty until the cheating question is resolved, Kirk manages to get on board the Enterprise with the help of Leonard McCoy.

Act Three

En route to Vulcan, Kirk hears a description of events occurring near the Klingon neutral zone and then at Vulcan, compares them to reports of the battle that resulted in his father's death, and concludes that the fleet heading toward Vulcan is falling into a trap. He manages to convince Captain Pike, who prepares the ship for battle before emerging from warp speed.

Due to a delay leaving Earth, the Enterprise is the last ship in the fleet to arrive at Vulcan. They emerge from warp to find the rest of the fleet destroyed. The Romulan ship is in low orbit over Vulcan with a drilling device suspended into the atmosphere, blasting a path to the planet's core; the beam also interferes with transporter function in the system. Captain Nero recognizes the Enterprise and hails the ship. He asks Captain Pike to fly over to his ship in a shuttle to negotiate. Pike recognizes a trap, but agrees. He puts Spock in command and appoints Kirk as his first officer, then takes Kirk, Sulu, and an additional Red Shirt to his shuttle.

As the shuttle flies to Nero's ship, Kirk, Sulu, and the Red Shirt jump out, HALO jumping down the mining rig. The Red Shirt misses the landing and falls to his death, but Kirk and Sulu manage to land on the end of the rig and -- after a fight with some Romulan guards -- disable it. With the beam disabled, the Enterprise is able to beam them back up.

Meanwhile, Nero realizes that his mining rig has been disabled, but it had already succeeded in drilling a deep enough shaft into Vulcan. He launches a charge of red matter down the shaft, causing a black hole to form that begins to consume the planet. The Enterprise crew realize what's happening, and Spock beams down to rescue his parents and the Vulcan high council. The Enterprise attempts to beam them back just as the area collapses, and Spock's mother falls to her death before the Enterprise can transport her away.

Act Four

With Vulcan destroyed, Nero's ship leaves the system for Earth. Nero proceeds to torture Captain Pike for information about Earth's defenses.

As acting Captain, Spock decides to rendezvous with the rest of the Federation fleet in the Laurentian system, based on the logic that the Enterprise alone is no match for Nero's ship. Kirk argues that Earth will be destroyed by the time the Enterprise can gather the rest of the fleet, so they need to pursue Nero themselves, regardless of the risk. As Kirk is insubordinate, Spock has him ejected from the ship in an escape pod, which lands on Delta Vega.

On the icy surface of Delta Vega, Kirk is saved from local predators by an elderly Vulcan, who introduces himself as Spock. Using a mind meld, Spock explains that in the future, a supernova threatened to destroy Romulus and many other planets in the galaxy. Spock promised to save Romulus using red matter to create a black hole that would consume the exploding star. Unfortunately, Spock was not able to reach Romulus in time, and the planet was destroyed before he could launch the red matter. Captain Nero blamed Spock for the destruction of his homeworld and attacked Spock's ship. Spock escaped by flying into the black hole, emerging in the past. Nero pursued, but he emerged from the black hole twenty-five years earlier than Spock. Obsessed with vengeance, Nero waited for Spock's ship to emerge from the black hole and captured it, obtaining the supply of red matter. Nero explained his intent to destroy everything Spock valued, starting with Vulcan. Nero then marooned Spock on Delta Vega, from which he would be able to observe the destruction of Vulcan.

Spock agrees with Kirk that Nero must be stopped before he can reach Earth and deploy the red matter. To do that, Kirk will have to assume command of the Enterprise. Kirk doesn't see how that will be possible, but Spock explains that his younger self will have to relinquish command if it can be shown that he is emotionally compromised. All they need to do is get Kirk onto the Enterprise. To do that, they head toward a Federation outpost on the Delta Vega.

The outpost turns out to be manned only by Montgomery Scott and an alien assistant. The outpost doesn't have a ship that could catch up with the Enterprise, but it does have a transporter. Scotty explains that he was working on a way to transport objects over interplanetary distances and onto ships travelling at warp, but he hadn't figured it out yet. Spock tells him that one day he will, and then enters that very formula into the transporter system, which he then uses to transport Kirk and Scotty to the Enterprise.

Kirk and Scott arrive in engineering, where they are picked up by a security team. Spock has them brought to the bridge for questioning, but Kirk refuses to cooperate, taunting Spock about his lack of feelings for the loss of his planet, people, and mother, instead. Spock loses his temper and attacks Kirk, nearly killing him before relenting and declaring himself unfit for command. As acting first officer, Kirk assumes command of the Enterprise.

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