Star Trek (Three-Disc +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] | ![Star Trek (Three-Disc +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RfGsmoLVL._SL160_.jpg) | Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: PARBR071824
UPC: 097360718249
EAN: 0097360718249
ASIN: B001AVCFK6
Theatrical Release Date: May 9, 2009
Release Date: November 17, 2009 (New: This Week)
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/17/2009
Amazon.com
J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature film was billed as "not your father's Star Trek," but your father will probably love it anyway. And what's not to love? It has enough action, emotional impact, humor, and sheer fun for any moviegoer, and Trekkers will enjoy plenty of insider references and a cast that seems ideally suited to portray the characters we know they'll become later. Both a prequel and a reboot, Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine of The Princess Diaries 2), a sharp but aimless young man who's prodded by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to enlist and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a Vulcan commander named Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), but their conflict has to take a back seat when Starfleet, including its new ship, the Enterprise, has to answer an emergency call from Vulcan. What follows is a stirring tale of genocide and revenge launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we get to see the familiar crew come together, including McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin), and Scottie (Simon Pegg).The action and visuals make for a spectacular Big-Screen Movie, though the plot by Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together on Transformers and with Abrams on Alias and Mission Impossible III), and his producers (fellow Losties Damon Lindeloff and Bryan Burk) can be a bit of a mind-bender (no surprise there for Lost fans). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick may find faults, but resistance is futile when you can watch Kirk take on the Kobayashi Maru scenario or hear McCoy bark, "Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and hearing the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some sequels to this terrific prequel. --David Horiuchi
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 I really miss Gene Roddenberry. November 21, 2009
David Witsil (Middletown, PA USA)
If you are quite young and experiencing Star Trek for the first time, you will probably enjoy this movie. But you are not experiencing the real Star Trek in any way.
I am 55 years old, and have been a big fan of the Star Trek franchise since Capt. Kirk and crew first debuted on the small screen on NBC in the late 1960's. I have thrilled at all of the TV spin-offs of Star Trek. I was whisked away with glorious adventure with all of the Star Trek movies. Gene Roddenberry was and still is a hero to us true Trekkie's. But I am certain that our old long passed friend, Gene, is turning in his grave at this latest installment of the Star Trek franchise. I know that Gene would not approve of what they have done to his dream. If he were alive today, this movie would have never been made.
The original TV shows and movies were a bright and wonderful adventure. They gave us a positive glimpse into the future, even if it was just fantasy. The shows had great special effects, but they weren't the whole show. They had real story lines to follow. It was an escape into a better time. The cast members from ST:TOS through ST: Enterprise, became our hero's. We knew personal details about each character like they were old friends. We got to be involved with their personal lives and careers. They were real human beings that acted their roles well. Even though the look and technology in the shows advanced with time, the original formula that was a Gene Roddenberry signature was always easily recognized, and truly appreciated. When Gene passed away, Rick Berman and his crew followed very closely to Gene's formula, and kept the feel of Star Trek alive and well. If this is what you are expecting with this new Star Trek movie, you will be greatly disappointed.
Remember the last Ford Thunderbird that was made? It really wasn't a Thunderbird. It was a completely different car with the name "Thunderbird" put on it to attract buyers. This new Star Trek movie is not really a Star Trek Movie. They just kept the original crew names and the Star Trek label to attract older Trekkie's.
This latest Star Trek movie is very different in every way. I can only think that the writers and producers did this to attract a whole new younger, texting, video game playing generation. JJ Abrams has turned Star Trek into a dark version of itself. It looks fake like a video game turned into a movie. The old Roddenberry formula has been thrown out the window, and replaced with a dark "What if" version. In other words, what if Star Trek had not began and played out the way it was originally written and portrayed over the last 45 years? Kirk, McCoy, Chekov, Sulu, Scottie, and Uhura were never on the Enterprise under Capt. Pike. But they are in this movie. The entire design and layout of the Enterprise from bow to stern is completely changed. The bridge has technology that resembles the 24th century episodes, except the main viewer is now a glass window instead of the original electronic screen. Engineering looks like an old factory with water pipes running everywhere. Even the transporter beam now looks like cutesy swirling sparkling stars, instead of the original color beams that faded the person away. In this version, it seems that Uhura and Spock have the hots for each other. What's up with that? And Vulcan has been destroyed. This movie depended completely on CGI special effects and very little story line for the characters. For all of us true Star Trek fans, Star Trek ended with the movie "Nemesis", and the TV series, "Enterprise".
On the technical side, the BluRay version is no better than the standard DVD. Many scenes are in a haze, some look grainy like an old movie. I have standard DVDs that look better. Also, way too much editing. Scenes are constantly changing, making it hard to follow the actors and action.
The Amazon.com details for the BluRay DVD claim it is in Dolby Digital 5.1 Extended surround. But it is actually in True HD surround. This means if your audio system is like most systems, you will not hear it in Dolby Digital 5.1. Instead you will hear it in Dolby Pro-Logic only. The real joke is, you can switch to the French or Spanish audio tracks and hear the audio in full Dolby Digital 5.1. But the English track is in Pro-Logic for most people. I have a full digital 7.1 surround system, but I had to hear it in Pro-Logic. I was very disappointed in this. I am going to return the BluRay version and get the standard DVD instead. It is the only way I will get to hear the audio in Dolby Digital 5.1, and I know the picture quality will be as good. Standard DVDs do not carry True HD audio, so it will be in Dolby Digital 5.1 EX or DTS-ES6.1, or both.
Overall, the movie was filled with excitement, had a few good moments, and it was nice to see the older Mr. Spock from the future. He was the only sign that reminded me I was actually watching a Star Trek movie. Just don't waste your money on the BluRay version. Only buy the Standard DVD. If future Star Trek movies look anything like this one, I probably will just wait for it to get on HBO to check it out.
 New life for a great legacy November 21, 2009
J. McJedi (MPLS, MN)
I'll keep it short because a lot of other people have already worded reviews much better than mine. I loved this movie. (How's that for short?)
I've been a Trek fan for almost all of my 29 years, starting when I was a little kid watching TOS in syndication and every other series as they came out on TV over the years. I own all of the original series episodes, all 10 previous movies (DVD and Blu-Ray) and love watching them regularly (and will continue to enjoy them even if that timeline is a divergence!). I love that there will be new adventures with all of my favorite characters in the years to come, and hopefully a new horde of fans who will discover TOS/TNG/DS9/Voy/Ent through JJ Abrams efforts. I also love that this film respects and allows the other films and series to continue to exist for the continuity nerds out there to argue about for decades to come.
To the people taking issue with someone messing around with the timeline...relax. Trek has always been loosey goosey with the timeline/continuity when the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few (ahem). You can still enjoy the previously released Star Trek continuity...and if you really want to, you can hate and ignore any new material coming from JJ and company. I'm going to look forward to new adventures, hopefully for years to come. Gene Roddenberry himself hoped that someday someone would take his stories and do them one better...and I think this film has done it in spades.
"Star Trek" arises from the ashes with a nice looking Blu-ray with plenty of very good special features November 20, 2009
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
Arising the from the ashes of "Star Trek: Nemesis", "Star Trek" reboots the franchise by going back to the beginning. Sort of. Filling every frame with activity and trying to add an authentic quality by shooting at real locations (such as using a Budweiser brewery redressed as the engine room), Abrams' reinvention of "Star Trek" is admirable even if fans might not agree with all of his and writers Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci's decisions; "Star Trek" still manages to be entertaining, involving even if it does have some fairly substanial plot holes in it (plot holes are nothing new--heck Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" had plenty of them as well as coincidences)and the fact that in post-production the plot was streamlined a bit (watch the deleted scenes to see what might have been). Either way, "Star Trek" breathes new life into the "Trek" franchise.
The rest of the cast give marvelous performances with each character getting their due.
EXTRAS-we get some good ones in this set.
We get a commentary track featuring J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindeol (producer), Orci & Kurtzman that focus on everything from discarded plot elements to happy accidents that made it into the filming.
The deleted scenes aren't all finished; for example two involving Nero's ship and another one involving Sarek returning home have unfinished CGI work. The bulk of the rest of the scenes are pretty well finished. We get an extended scene of Sarek and young Spock as well and finally find out how (at least this Kirk)reprogrammed the Kobyashi Maru simulation in the deleted scenes. In the finished film we're not told how he did it. A nice touch in the film is that Pine as Kirk eats an apple as he takes the test just as he did in when describing it in one scene of "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan".
We also get featurettes on "Aliens", "Costume Design", "Ships" (including some discarded concepts for the Enterprise), a featurette on Gene Roddenberry's Vision and plenty of interviews with cast and crew discussing tackling the new "Trek".
The Blu-ray looks exceptionally good. Those lens flares that you see were intentional as Abrams is fond of using them to give the film a sense of "reality".
The plot if you're interested--Nero (Eric Bana) an anguished but insane captain of a mining ship gets sucked into a black hole taking him into the past. Nero has a plan. He's going to alter the future. In this "alternate" gimplse into the Academy years we see how Spock (Zachary Quinto), Kirk(Chris Pine) and McCoy (Karl Urban)meet, the obstacles including a lack of trust between Spock and Kirk that they must face to defeat Nero before he destroys Earth. When Nero goes back into the past he alters the timeline creating one where Kirk's father dies creating a chip on James T. Kirk's shoulder that influences his behavior, entry into Starfleet and captaincy of the Enterprise.
 READ DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY -- No DVD Copy Included! November 20, 2009
K. Kampshoff (Forest Lake, MN United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've bought a handful of Blu-Ray movies in the past, even though I don't own a Blu-Ray player, because the package has always included a DVD disc along with a digital copy of the movie. This works out great because I can watch the movie on my DVD player, on my iPod Touch, and when I eventually upgrade to Blu-Ray, I can start using that disc. Naturally, I assumed a "3-Disc" edition would include just that: a Blu-Ray copy of the movie, a DVD copy, and a digital copy.
Nothing on the packaging indicates this is the case, so I cracked the plastic only to find I won't be able to watch this movie on my TV at all until I make some serious home theater upgrades.
I should have been more diligent in making sure the package included what I wanted, but the Amazon listing is ambiguous and the packaging itself doesn't indicate exactly what's inside. Caveat emptor, as always.
Note that the 1-star rating only indicates my dissatisfaction with the product listing -- I thought the movie was great and can't wait to watch it at home.
Nice job. November 20, 2009
JP (Townsend, MT USA)
What a kick! Yes, this version of Star Trek seems to continue the tradition with honor. We, hardcore trekkies/trekker/fans find it well done, at least the few I've talked to. A very welcomed break.
There is one small issue with the commentary by Mr. Abrams and company. They kept referring to STAR TREK as trek. It is not trek, it is STAR TREK. Even the title sequence highlights the word trek more than STAR. To the commentary crew: Do not cheapen STAR TREK by trying to modernize (cheapen) its name. It is not one of our disposable nondisposable manufactured items.
Everyone remember STAR TREK and correct anyone using the word trek. Every aspect of our society seems to be attempting to forget our history, the history we should be learning from. Our current administration is sick with this philosophy. STAR TREK wiped out many social barriers and should not be cheapened by a new generation of filmmaker puppets.
That said Mr. Abrams, nice job on the movie and "thrusters on full". Thank you Mr. Nimoy.
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