Star Trek: Premieres and reviews

Star Trek movie has UK premiere The stars of the new Star Trek movie have gathered in London’s West End for the film’s British premiere. Actors from the latest sci-fi outing, including Simon Pegg and Chris Pine – who plays Captain Kirk – were greeted by hundreds of fans.

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Eric Bana at the UK premiere of Star Trek

Star Trek Plot – Kirk (Pine) runs wild after his dad dies on the Starship Kelvin. Vulcan Spock (Quinto) is an outsider because of his human mother. Both end up at Starfleet Academy, where they clash — can a futuristic threat unite them?

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Star Trek is ‘out of this world’ The first reviews are out and critics are saying that the latest installment of the Star Trek franchise has what it takes to boldly go the distance.

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Star Trek’s stellar return Hollywood loves remakes or re-versions or reboots or, God forbid, re-imaginings. Whatever you want to call this new trend, a slate of them are in the pipeline including Footloose, Robocop and Total Recall. But if anyone could have a decent crack at resurrecting Star Trek – one of television and cinema’s longest running franchises – it could be worse than self-confessed fan, Lost creator JJ Abrams. But does he manage it?

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