Released during the weekend was the trailer for the new "Star Trek" movie, which is about one of the earliest missions of James Tiberius Kirk and the rest of the original U.S.S. Enterprise crew.
If the movie trailer is any indication,"Star Trek" is more than visually impressive, and it surpasses the simplistic backdrops used in the original TV series to portray the experience of visiting aliens on faraway planets.
In the opening cut alone, a young Kirk drives a car he clearly is too young to legally drive so as to flee from a robotic traffic cop covered in black garb from head to toe and riding on a hovering scooter. Driving toward a cliff, young Kirk jumps out of the car, which falls to its destruction as he clings to the edge.
What detracts from the sequence is that it involves what seems to be action concocted by screenwriters with a penchant for exaggeration as opposed to subtlety.
While the aim is to establish that Kirk is a bad seed from a young age who struggles to find his place in the world, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurztman could have had the character first go through puberty.
Jimmy Bennett, the actor portraying the boy who would be Kirk, is only 12 years old, showing that the character's antics as a pre-teen are simply overkill.
Saving the action cut is young Kirk's red and gray jacket that looks very similar to the adjustably-sized one Marty McFly wears in "Back to the Future II."
Continuing the overwhelming need to overcome the limitations of visual effects in the 1960s, the movie trailer shows Spock teleporting, The Enterprise entering an actual hyper space region instead of jetting off screen, an updated physiological look for Romulans that no longer makes them look like grumpy Vulcans, explosions, a space slug creature, more explosions and so forth.
Not to mention Zoe Saldana's Uhura showing her bra and Chris Pine's Kirk having movie sex in the dark to get audiences other than hardcore Trekkies to buy tickets to this mile-a-minute, blow-'em-up space extravaganza that is being plugged as a time-travel story and not a reboot in case it blows up in director J.J. Abrams' face.
How the trailer makes the movie look promising is that it introduces Kirk and Spock (Zachary Quinto) to audiences who are either too young to have seen "Star Trek" or could care less about the TV show, its subsequent spin-offs and movies.
At the same time there is not any clear indication as to whether Pine can convincingly portray Kirk as a rebel without a cause that rallies together the Enterprise crew or simply as a young William Shatner epigone.
Quinto's acting is also sparingly showcased. WATCH THE NEW TRAILER!
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