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Cert 12 Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller/Romance) Cocksure and impetuous James T Kirk (Chris Pine) enrols at Starfleet Academy, making an instant friend in Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban). Some of the other recruits prove more difficult to win over, especially Spock (Zachary Quinto), until a Romulan attack on the Vulcan homeland unites the young men and women. With Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) at the helm, crew members Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin) and Sulu (John Cho) guide the pristine USS Enterprise into battle against Romulan warship captain Nero (Eric Bana). Star Trek is a big-budget re-imagining of the series, which breathes new life into the iconic characters. Ardent fans of the universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early 1970s will take issue with some changes, including the introduction of a forbidden romance and a time-travelling narrative thread. But like the first X-Men, JJ Abrams’s film is a solid building block for the future. Rating: 4/5
