FILM REVIEW: Star Trek (2009)
2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/adaptation/app005
ISSN1755-0645
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoIn 1991 at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the cast of the original Star Trek television series literally signed off in the end credits. Although some of them would appear in the Next Generation television spin-off and films, the whole ensemble would not again onscreen go boldly where no one has gone before. As the Trek franchise itself sputtered out with the box office failure of the tenth film, Nemesis, and the premature cancellation of the fifth series, Enterprise, it seemed unlikely these characters would ever reunite. But 18 years later, they are back, in a flashy franchise reboot, a breakneck, stylish, and thoroughly entertaining summer blockbuster. For all their familiarity over the past 43 years, the Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov portrayed here traverse unfamiliar ground, and not just because the parts have been recast. When we first met them in 1966, the ship and crew were battle-tested professionals who had served together for some part of their 5-year mission. The first pilot, ‘The Cage’, integrated into the episode ‘The Menagerie’, served as a flashback to Spock as a junior officer under Captain Christopher Pike, but we never saw the transfer of command to James T. Kirk or how the rest of the unfamiliar crew of ‘The Cage’ gave way to the series regulars. The original cast of the Trek films, made 13–25 years after the series premiered, had no choice but to go with a middle-aged command staff. The new movie, however, gives us an original story and a glimpse of the crew as young adults coming together for the first time on the maiden voyage of the Enterprise NCC-1701.
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