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May 7, 2009 Star Trek’s Multi-Culti Spirit Throwback To Original
J.J. Abram’s (Lost, Cloverfield) mega-budget Star Trek, hitting theatres nationwide tomorrow (Friday the 8th), introduces a slew of new actors not known to the big screen. Abrams is attempting a large task; something a lot of directors may not be ballsy enough to handle – dealing with a Star Trek backstory that has never been told before. This latest installment (the 11th, to be exact) deals with the characters’ lives before the Starship Enterprise as we know it – indeed Abrams is going where no man has gone before.
The film has already caused some controversy and extra scrutiny among die-hard Trekkies because it attempts to deal with material that’s never been covered, and for small detail changes like the Starship being docked in Iowa instead of San Francisco.
The fresh-faced and earnest cast includes: Chris Pine as the hot-blooded Kirk; Zachary Quinto as logical Spock; Zoe Saldana as the beautiful Lt. Uhura; Karl Urban is Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy; Simon Pegg plays engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott; John Cho is Sulu; and Anton Yelchin appears as Pavel Chekov.
You may remember Saldana from her role as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, and Cho from his roles in the Harold & Kumar movies.
Pine puts it best when he draws a comparison between the times in which the original television series ran, to today’s times with the release of the film. The original TV series was revolutionary in putting people of all ethnic background and sexes together, fighting against a common evil. Differences among themselves did not seem to be a factor; a scenario that seems to be becoming more and more a reality is today’s America. The series was truly a head of its time in this respect.
“The original series comes out in the late ’60s during a time of social unrest and two wars, and then you look at the bridge of the Enterprise, and it’s a veritable United Nations of colors, races and sexes,” he says.
“I mean, all you have to do is look around the world, and we’re trying to kill each other more often than not,” Pine added. “What a wonderful thing to look at a bunch of people working together against one common enemy that’s out there.”
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Brandi
May 8, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Oh my goodness, Zoe looks like Lil Mama in that picture. And well…Lil Mama looks like Shad Moss. I’m glad that’s only a movie, because she’s prettier than that.
I don’t know if I’m ready for a Star Trek return.
browngirl411
May 9, 2009 at 1:04 am
I just saw the movie and…..it….was……AWSOME!!!!! It was 10x better than I was expecting it to be. I had been disappointed by the last few Star Trek movies and wasn’t excited to see this one but they brought new life and much needed action back to the Star Trek Movie franchise on this one. It’s a must see!!!
Spicy Goddess
May 9, 2009 at 2:28 am
I hope the movie is good, I hear it is….
honey
May 9, 2009 at 8:59 am
she looks lke beyonce in that pic
Deva Diabolical
May 10, 2009 at 2:48 am
That movie is AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGG … Even if you’re not a Star Trek fan, you’ll love it.
Ro
May 10, 2009 at 4:34 am
The Multi-Kulti element is what attracted me to Star Trek as a kid. Being Multi-racial and having experienced racism from all sides, it was nice to at least see it on a show that was from the 60’s. Couldnt get into all the rest, but i really want to see this movie!