Star Trek

I have never had any kind of passion for Star Trek, but J. J. Abram’s new adaptation of the Star Trek franchise is absolutely stunning. This film will undoubtedly be the premier blockbuster film of the summer and even rivals previous blockbuster hits such as The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Star Trek is pleasurable in so many facets; it successfully pulls off comedy, action, adventure, and most importantly science-fiction. The latest installment of the Star Trek series is aesthetically brilliant with its complex action sequences and wonderful CGI.

The film opens with USS Kelvin and an advanced and hostile Romulan vessel. While the volatile, pugnacious Romulans are destroying the Kelvin, all occupants evacuate the ship, all but its acting captain George Kirk, father of James Tiberius Kirk. Next the film moves to James’s childhood in Iowa of all places. James Kirk is a polymath yet a rebellious one. After a tussle with some Starfleet Academy trainees at a local bar, he is urged to join the Fleet by Captain Christopher Pike, who preformed his dissertation onboard the Kelvin, and challenges James to outperform his father. Kirk initially ignores Pike’s pleas, but ultimately accepts the challenge laid before him. Kirk goes on to excel at Starfleet Academy and along the way befriends Dr. McCoy. During his studies he partakes in the impossibly exigent Kobayashi-Maru Test, which is a simulation designed to test mettle and commanding capability of the Academy’s enrollees. On Kirk’s third attempt, he passes with apparent ease, which subsequently arouses suspicion in the test’s designer, Spock. In the middle of the trial to determine the legitimacy of Kirk’s test results, the Romulans that attacked the Kelvin are beginning an assault on Spock’s native planet Vulcan. A distress signal is sent from Vulcan to the Starfleet who immediately respond in a planned rescue mission. Then the madness ensues. A progression of cumbersome yet entirely functional events advances the plot along, eventually concluding in an engulfed Vulcan, a protected Earth, and a new captain for the USS Enterprise.

Star Trek’s story is intermittently infused with time travel, portable black holes, Romulans with terrorist sympathies, and inter-species erotica; however, none of these detract from wholly entertaining and bemusing adventure that is Star Trek. I am supremely confident that all sci-fi neophytes and seasoned, fanatical experts will thoroughly enjoy the newest chapter of the allegorical Star Trek saga.