Are you looking forward to the new Star Trek flick due out in May? It has quiently been gaining steam as geeks and freaks get prepared to camp out for the premiere. I won't be curled up in my sleeping bag waiting for the big day, but I will probably be one of the first to see it. I'm a big Heroes fan and I'm looking forward to seeing what Zachary Quinto (Sylar on Heroes) does with the Spock character. Star Trek legend, Leonard Nimoy also stars (I thought he was going to play Spock's old man) and Chris Pine will take on William Shatner's role as Captain James Tiberius Kirk. All this of course happens pre-Star Trek, the series from the 1960s when the world was introduced to Gene Roddenberry's intrepid crew of the Enterprise.
The premise of the movie, in case you don't know, is about what happens while Kirk and Spock are still cadets at Starfleet Academy. The character of Captain Christopher Pike is also brought back, played by Bruce Greenwood. Pike is the Captain who is imprisioned by aliens using mind control in the classic Trek episode, The Cage. A lot of the old familiar characters are back, Bones (the Doctor McCoy), the space receptionist, er, communications officer Uhura, Scotty, the engineer, Checkov and even Winona Ryder pops in as Amanda Grayson.
Plot?
So far, all we have is that the movie will be "A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members".
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