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March 6th, 2009 at 9:33 am

Star Trek Trailer Video, Photos: J.J. Abrams Star Trek 2009

Star Trek 2009 movie poster

A new theatrical trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek has been released. See the trailer and photos here. The highly anticipated prequel of the Star Trek universe, will be released in theaters on May 8, 2009.

The mesmerizing new trailer (which is attached to The Watchmen, which opened on March 6, 2009) builds excitement and anticipation for the movie with its focus on the young James T. Kirk, portrayed by Chris Pine, showing us what early life events shaped his character. We learn more about his father’s heroism as a starship captain, saving the lives of several hundred of his crew, including the infant Kirk.

The young Spock is portrayed by Zachary Quinto, respectively in the movie which follows the early days of the familiar Star Trek crew as they attend Star Fleet Academy, located on Planet Earth, in San Francisco.

Of the original cast members, only Leonard Nimoy appears in the movie, making a highly anticipated cameo as the legendary Mr. Spock. He was seen in the final seconds of the movie’s first theatrical trailer, released in November 2008, delivering the signature Vulcan greeting, “Live long and prosper.” (See: Star Trek 2009 Theatrical Trailer.)

Rounding out the cast are Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Simon Pegg as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, John Cho as Hikaru Sulu, Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. The movie’s villain, Nero, a Romulan commander, is portrayed by Eric Bana.

The crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek (2009)

In a recent interview, director J.J. Abrams talked about the importance of maintaining the integrity of the characters and the iconic hallmarks of Star Trek.

The characters was the most important thing in it. We needed to be true to the spirit of those characters. There were certain iconic things — if you’re going to do “Star Trek,” you’ve got to do the Enterprise and it has to look like the Enterprise. If you’re going to do “Star Trek” you have to do costumes that feel like the costumes people know. You have to be able to glance at it and know what that is. Even the text, the font of “Star Trek” has to look like what you know.

The phasers, the communicators, the Starfleet logo — there are all these things that are the touchstones, the tenets of what makes “Star Trek” “Star Trek.” If you’re going to do this series those are things you don’t mess with. And yet, they need to withstand a resolution that “Star Trek” has never had to withstand before. And I don’t just mean IMAX — though it will have to work there too — but what I mean is that audiences are so savvy now and they’ve seen every iteration of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” two separate versions of “Battlestar Galactica,” they’ve seen “Alien” and “Aliens,” they’ve seen countless science fiction movies. They’ve seen it all. And even worse, they’ve seen a movie as “Galaxy Quest” that completely mocks the paradigm in its entirety. [...]

The crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek (2009)

JJA: The trick is how do you use a ship like that, uniforms like that, characters who look like that and the name “Star Trek” and make it feel relevant and legitimate. the challenge is to take the familiar — for better or worse — and embrace the elements that make it unique but be sure the master you’re serving is the making of the most entertaining movie possible. You can’t look backward and try to make sure that every decision you’re making is true to the past. that’s not to say that we weren’t true to the past, but that wasn’t our guiding principle.

Source: LA Times Hero Complex: ‘Star Trek’ director J.J. Abrams on tribbles and the ‘Galaxy Quest’ problem

Photo credit: Paramount

Here is the Star Trek Theatrical Trailer, in high definition on Apple: