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 ST (2009)
| The movie begins, as "Star Trek" movies are wont to do, with a crisis. The U.S.S. Kelvin, isolated from the fleet, has been badly damaged in a surprise attack, and the enemy ship has insisted that the Kelvin's captain come aboard. On his way to the shuttle bay, the captain gives command to a fresh-faced young officer. Who thus finds himself in charge of a starship? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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George Kirk. Poor Captain Robau (Faran Tahir) had thought his ship was heading to investigate a lightning storm, but instead they run afoul of an extremely unusual ship. Vast, dark and spiky, the Narada takes the Kelvin by surprise, and Robau agrees to take a shuttle to the enemy vessel in an attempt to save the survivors among his crew.
When he gives command to a young, blond officer surnamed Kirk (Chris Hemsworth), we're meant to think that this is the James Tiberius Kirk we've come to know during decades of "Star Trek." But this is his father, George, and when the enemy murders Robau he knows desperate measures are called for to save his crew and especially his pregnant wife. After evacuating the ship, he steers it on a collision course for the center of the enemy vessel, and hears his newborn son's first cry over a radio link just before he dies to buy them time.
| Credits roll, backstory is filled in, and suddenly we're in a bar in Iowa. In the finest tradition of the classic shows, Mr. James T. Kirk finds himself in a barroom brawl, not twenty minutes into the movie, against a couple of beefy Starfleet cadets. Why are they fighting? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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Over whether Kirk should be allowed to talk to Uhura. Through a brief scene of childhood rebellion and a shot of Kirk (Chris Pine) as a young man on a motorcycle, we establish that the fatherless Kirk is also something of a loose cannon. Drinking at a bar in his home state of Iowa, he encounters Uhura (Zoe Saldana) -- a xenolinguist on her way to Starfleet Academy in San Francisco -- and immediately attempts to flirt with her. She turns him down quickly and firmly, refusing even to tell him her first name. A few other cadets doubt her ability to handle herself, and begin to fight with Kirk -- supposedly in her defense, but over her protests. Heavily outnumbered, Kirk is receiving a serious beating when a Starfleet officer -- the one and only Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) -- intervenes.
| Kirk's time at the Starfleet Academy is largely left to our imaginations, as we move rather rapidly to a disciplinary hearing in front of his entire class. He stands accused of cheating on a simulator test called the Kobayashi Maru. Who is his accuser, the designer of the test? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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Spock. Spock (Zachary Quinto) is a recent graduate of the Academy, described as one of its most distinguished alumni. The Kobayashi Maru, a test which he has programmed for the last three years, is one of the Academy's enduring rites of passage, taking place in a simulator room evoking the command deck of a starship. The Kobayashi Maru is a simulated civilian ship in distress, and the cadet crew is ordered to go to its rescue -- but that rescue mission quickly dooms them to an unwinnable fight against multiple Klingon ships. The result is both a test of character and an effort to force future commanders to face and accept their fears of death and failure.
We see Kirk's third attempt at the test. Although he's failed the first two -- and although, as McCoy points out, no one goes back for a second shot -- Kirk is curiously unconcerned during the test, munching an apple in the captain's chair and responding nonchalantly to his officers' alarmed reports. It soon becomes apparent why: he has reprogrammed the simulation so that the Klingon ships spontaneously lower their shields, allowing him to destroy the enemy and rescue the crew and passengers of the Kobayashi Maru. It also raises interesting questions about his adherence to the cadet code of conduct ...
| Kirk's disciplinary hearing, which could end his Starfleet career before it's hardly begun, is suddenly brought to an end when a distress signal arrives. Realizing that the main fleet is too far away to respond, the Admiral stops dressing down Kirk and starts scrambling the cadets to help man the seven ships that are close enough. Who is sending the distress signal? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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The planet Vulcan. Vulcan is a founding planet of the United Federation of Planets as well as homeworld to some of "Star Trek"'s most popular characters (the fascinating Mr. Spock among them); there is nothing Starfleet will not do to protect that world. Unfortunately, when Vulcan High Command sends a distress signal reporting a cataclysmic and inexplicable space lightning storm, Starfleet's main forces are much too distant to respond; instead, Admiral Barnett (a cameo by filmmaker Tyler Perry) scrambles the incompletely manned ships in Earth orbit, sending senior cadets to fill out their crews. Among these ships is the Enterprise, flagship of the fleet, commanded by Christopher Pike and making its maiden voyage earlier than planned.
| Now fully manned, Starfleet's ships begin warping to the source of the distress signal. The Enterprise gets a late start, and arrives to a scene of destruction. The tremendously powerful ship from the beginning of the movie is here, and the rest of the armada hasn't even managed to distract it from its mission. What is it doing? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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Drilling a hole in the planet. The enemy ship -- a mining ship, as we discover -- has deployed a gigantic drill, stretching from the ship itself to the surface of the planet Vulcan below. It's attempting to drill into the planet's core, with predictably disastrous consequences for Vulcan.
The Enterprise has several advantages over the others in its fleet. It enters the scene late, thanks to a mistake by rookie helmsman Ensign Hikaru Sulu (John Cho), and its commander expects an attack, thanks to Kirk and Uhura -- Kirk recognizes the "lightning storm" of the distress signal from stories of his father's last action, and (thanks to her linguistic skills) Uhura is the first to correctly translate a similar signal from a Klingon fleet that was soon destroyed. But what saves the Enterprise is that Nero (Eric Bana), commander of the enemy ship, recognizes its markings, and has a special desire that Spock live through the battle -- saying that he has something to show him and demanding Captain Pike as a hostage.
The "show" turns out to be the destruction of Vulcan, via a black-hole generator dropped through the shaft drilled in the world. Kirk and Sulu manage to shut down the drill after a death-defying parachute jump to its platform, but it's too late. Billions of people and millions of years of history ... are history.
| In the midst of Starfleet's greatest failure and a terrible tragedy, Nero -- commander of the enemy vessel and engineer of that tragedy -- has a curious sense of pride. He explains to Captain Pike, now his prisoner, that he has only just begun his revenge. What does Nero see himself as avenging? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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The destruction of the planet Romulus. Hundreds of years in the future, Nero explains, his homeworld -- the planet Romulus -- is destroyed in its entirety, and he himself is driven mad with grief for his people and his pregnant wife. He blames the Federation -- and especially one Ambassador Spock -- for Romulus's demise, and has come back in time to exact his revenge. He means to destroy every single one of the Federation's dozens of planets, and he wants Pike to help him by revealing the access codes for Earth's planetary defense system. (He does eventually get the codes by resorting to a mind-controlling insect, perhaps a relative of the ones previously used to great effect by the villain of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.")
Later scenes in the movie fill in a more complex picture: it is natural disaster (a supernova), not malevolence, that destroys Romulus, and Ambassador Spock is just slightly too late to save it with his "red matter" to contain the explosion within a black hole. Nero's ship and Spock's are sucked back in time through that black hole, thereby creating an alternate universe, where history will unfold differently from the original "Star Trek" shows and movies.
| The Enterprise's captain is gone, captured by the enemy ship. The Enterprise's mission is an abject failure. Spock and Kirk disagree on their next course of action, and Starfleet Command cannot be reached in time to provide guidance. When their argument turns physical, Spock has Kirk forcibly ejected from the ship and marooned on a nearby world. What unexpected person does Kirk meet there? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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Spock. Spock, left in command by Captain Pike, wants to rendezvous with the main fleet, in hopes that vast numbers will neutralize the enemy ship's vast technological advantage. Kirk, whom Pike had quickly promoted to first officer, believes that there isn't enough time for a rendezvous, and that they must chase the enemy to their next destination. It takes a Vulcan nerve pinch to get Kirk to stop arguing.
Kirk's one-man escape pod lands a relatively short distance from a Starfleet base, and he boldly goes into the icy landscape and quickly meets some large and carnivorous life forms. He's saved by ... Spock. But instead of being his old nemesis from the Academy, this Spock is, well, old: this Spock, played by the very same Leonard Nimoy who originated the role, has lived a long life and has come from the future. "I have been, and always shall be, your friend," he tells a stunned Kirk, before explaining Nero's history and goals and suggesting a course of action.
| Kirk may be marooned on an isolated planet, with the Enterprise traveling away at warp speed, but we all know he'll end up right back on the bridge of the starship. How does Kirk make his return? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part I
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Using cutting-edge transwarp equations, Scotty beams them both onto a starship moving at warp speed.. When Spock and Kirk go to investigate the nearby Starfleet base, it turns out to be manned by -- of all people -- Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg), much beloved future Chief Engineer of the starship Enterprise. Scotty is sympathetic to Kirk's plight, being rather tired of icy exile himself, but he maintains that you cannot use a transporter to travel to a starship moving at warp speed -- until Spock explains that, actually, a future Scotty invents that technology. Luckily, Spock has the necessary equations memorized, and transwarp transportation thus makes a somewhat earlier appearance in history than it otherwise would have.
With strict instructions not to let young Spock know of future Spock's existence in this timeline, Kirk and Scotty materialize in the engine rooms of the Enterprise, and the stage is set for the movie's final act.
| What's "Star Trek" without our whole beloved crew? The movie really gets going when Kirk and Scotty beam aboard the Enterprise, much to the surprise of its commanding officer Spock. They aren't quite ready for action yet, though, as Scotty has materialized in an unexpected place. Where is he? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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In the water pipes in the engine room. Using transwarp transportation -- technology so cutting-edge that it hasn't technically been invented yet -- Kirk and Scotty beam aboard the Enterprise despite the fact that the ship is moving at warp speed. Although they appear right next to each other, Kirk is standing on the deck and Scotty has wound up inside the system of water pipes feeding the engines; the pipes are marked "inert reactant" and it's logical to suppose that the water serves as a coolant. Scotty is lucky that it's only water, but unlucky that this water is moved through the system at high speed, taking him through the pipes with it. Kirk manages to open a hatch in the pipes just in time to keep Scotty from ending up in a disturbingly violent mixing pool, in a nod to the oft-parodied fact that "Star Trek" characters often wind up in absurdly dangerous scenarios aboard ship. Perhaps, when he becomes Chief Engineer, Scotty will implement some basic safety protocols!
| Now that he's back on the Enterprise, Kirk's mission is to wrest command of the ship from Spock. Luckily, he's received some inside advice, suggesting that Spock should be relieved from command due to having been "emotionally compromised" by the mission. Why does Kirk expect even the logical Spock to be compromised by his emotions? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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His homeworld has been destroyed, leaving him one of perhaps 10,000 Vulcans in existence.. Earlier in the movie, the Enterprise (along with several other Federation ships) had responded to a distress signal from Vulcan -- but too late to prevent the planet from being destroyed. Vulcan, with nearly all of its six billion people, collapsed into itself when an black-hole bomb was launched into the center of the planet by a revenge-mad Romulan miner from the future.
Spock, as he says in a voiceover soon after the catastrophe, is "now a member of an endangered species." He goes to great lengths to keep himself together, telling Uhura that all he needs from the crew is for them to "continue performing admirably," but it is unreasonable to expect even a half-Vulcan to view the destruction of his homeworld with detachment. Ambassador Spock, the version of Spock who comes from the same future as Nero, tells Kirk that his commanding officer is certainly "emotionally compromised."
| Trailed by Scotty, Kirk makes his way to the bridge, intent on forcing Spock to show that he is not in control of his emotions. What taunt finally breaks through Spock's composure? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Kirk accuses Spock of never having loved his mother.. Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson (Winona Ryder), is one of the billions who perish in the destruction of Vulcan, slipping away from her son's grasp just as the transporters energize. She is human; Spock's father, Sarek, is Vulcan; and the movie explores how Spock's relationship with his mother is a tender spot. In a scene of his early childhood, Spock starts a fight with "pure" Vulcan bullies who insult his mother; in a scene of his young adulthood, Spock turns down a prestigious appointment to the Vulcan Science Academy when his mixed heritage is referred to as a "disadvantage." So when Kirk criticizes Spock's lack of visible emotion in the wake of his mother's murder and suggests that he never really loved her at all, it is not surprising that this is what cracks Spock's facade. He attacks Kirk, punching and choking him, before regaining some level of control and relieving himself of duty.
Kirk, named Spock's first officer by Captain Christopher Pike just before the latter's departure from the ship, is now in command, and Spock is adrift.
| Now commanding the Enterprise, Kirk orders the ship to pursue the enemy, the rogue Romulan mining vessel Narada. Naturally, this ship is now making its way toward Earth, with the total destruction of the planet in mind. Where does the Narada launch its attack? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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San Francisco Bay. Captain Nero deploys his gigantic space drill in San Francisco Bay, just next to the Golden Gate Bridge and in full view of Starfleet Academy. He thus places "Star Trek" in the relatively select group of science-fiction movies that refrains from illustrating the Earth's peril by destroying the Pyramids, the White House, or the Eiffel Tower. Of course, San Francisco is a favorite "Earth in peril" site for the "Star Trek" franchise; longtime viewers will remember, for example, that the destructive alien probe paid particular attention to the bay in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."
Uhura quickly works out the Narada's destination, and the Enterprise sets out in pursuit. Nero's goal is to destroy every planet in the United Federation of Planets, one by one, and the best the Enterprise can hope for is to stop him at his second target.
| The crew of the Enterprise is desperate to stop the enemy, but they're all alone out there and are frightfully outgunned. Chekov devises a plan to conceal the Enterprise from the Narada, allowing them to secretly beam a small team aboard the enemy ship. Where does the Enterprise hide? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Behind a moon of Saturn. Displaying skill and ingenuity far beyond what the character ever showed in the original series, Chekov realizes that Saturn's magnetic field will hide the ship from the Narada's sensors, while its rings will hide it visually. Since Nero isn't expecting the Enterprise to follow him, he won't be looking very closely for them anyway. Given how badly the Narada's futuristic weapons outclass the Enterprise's, their only reasonable chance to defeat the enemy is through surprise.
After a fraught conversation with his Vulcan father, Sarek (Ben Cross), Spock masters his emotions by accepting and using his anger rather than suppressing it. Placing himself under Kirk's command, he volunteers for the mission aboard the Narada, and makes a token (and unsuccessful) objection when Kirk decides to go too.
| The Enterprise is in position. Kirk and Spock are in the transporter room, preparing to beam aboard the enemy ship. They might not come back, so this is the moment for sweethearts to say goodbye. Whose romance do we see unfolding here? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Uhura and Spock. When Kirk arrives at the transporter pad, we see Spock and Uhura already there, kissing. Spock is soothing her, calling her by her first name, Nyota, which Kirk had spent three years obsessively trying to learn. This touching moment is a surprise to Kirk, but not to the movie audience; earlier in the film, after the destruction of Vulcan, we caught her kissing and comforting Spock in a turbolift. This second reveal is made worthwhile by the stunned look on Kirk's face when he realizes that he is not, in fact, God's gift to all women.
Uhura and Spock never had a relationship in the original series, although she did indulge in some seriously flirtatious teasing in early episodes. I like to think that the Uhura of this universe is finally getting what the Uhura of the other universe wanted.
Nurse Christine Chapel, played by Majel Barrett (also known as the voice of the computer, in this film as well as in all "Star Trek" shows and movies that preceded it), was an original series character who did not make it to this movie. She adored Spock, but her feelings were not reciprocated.
Counselor Deanna Troi was a regular on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," which took place well after the original series. A half-Betazoid and an empath whose major contributions to the show were low-cut blouses and talk of feelings, she and Spock would have made an odd pairing.
| Based on his experience with ship layouts, Scotty is hoping to beam Kirk and Spock into a relatively quiet, uncrowded part of the enemy ship -- like a cargo bay. Unfortunately, he fails, and the fist and phaser battle is on. In the course of the fighting, Spock takes a prisoner and learns where Christopher Pike is being held. How does Spock gain this intelligence? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Via a Vulcan mind-meld. There's no need for a Vulcan to try more complicated and time-consuming forms of persuasion; a mind meld is always the preferred way to get information, although it can be unpleasant when the target tries to resist. Vulcans usually perform the technique with one hand, fingers splayed on the target's cheek in the same shape as the famous "Live long and prosper" salute; in very tense situations they have been seen to use two hands.
This is the second mind meld seen in the movie; the first was used by the Spock from the future to show Kirk the events that led to the destruction of Vulcan. This one is much less intense, but it does require young Spock's complete attention; luckily, by this time, Kirk has his back.
| Armed with the inside knowledge they need, Kirk goes to rescue Captain Pike while Spock sets out to destroy the giant drill that's threatening Earth. What unusual tool does Spock have at his disposal? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Another ship from the future: Ambassador Spock's science vessel. The enemy ship, the Romulan mining vessel Narada, is vast -- so vast that, when Captain Nero and his crew captured Ambassador Spock's little science ship, they were able to keep that ship inside of their own after marooning him on an icy, isolated world. That little ship, distinguished by a rapidly rotating engine, is their source of "red matter" for their planet-destroying black hole bombs; Ambassador Spock had been traveling with a large supply, which he meant to use to contain a supernova explosion within an artificial black hole and save the planet Romulus. The resulting black hole did not save Romulus -- it was too late for that -- but it did launch Spock and the Romulans back in time.
Now, the much younger Spock from this timeline pilots his counterpart's ship out of the Narada, handily destroying the giant space drill and removing the threat to Earth. Kirk's mission also goes well; he saves Captain Pike and wounds Captain Nero, after an exciting fistfight that (for some reason) takes place atop a tiny platform at a great height.
| After a successful away mission and the near destruction of the Narada, Kirk, Spock, and Pike are beamed back to the Enterprise, where Scotty exults that he's never managed to beam "three people from two places to one transporter pad" before. Pike goes to sickbay; Kirk and Spock, to the bridge, where a wounded Nero declares his defiance. What do they say to him? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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Kirk offers to rescue Nero and any other Romulan survivors.. The Narada is certainly doomed: before being beamed back to the Enterprise, Spock had set the science ship on a collision course with it, resulting in the explosion of the red matter and the creation of an artificial black hole in the heart of the enemy ship. But there's still time to beam a few survivors aboard the Enterprise, and that's what Kirk is proposing when he offers to render aid. (In response to Spock's shock at the offer, Kirk notes that this may help the Federation's reputation with the Romulan Empire.)
Nero does not respond well to the offer of help. Practically spitting at the camera, he announces that he would rather watch the destruction of his homeworld thousands of times, or die "an agonizing death", than accept help from the Federation.
"You got it," says Kirk, as he and Spock turn away and doom the genocidaire to just that death.
| With a last-minute save by Scotty, the Enterprise is finally out of danger. Back at the Academy, Captain Pike becomes an admiral and Kirk jumps several ranks to become a captain. Spock, however, is torn between his duties to Starfleet and his duties to the Vulcan people. What advice does he receive about his dilemma? | "Star Trek" 2009, Part II
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You can be in two places at once.. Spock has a commission and a promising career in Starfleet, but he is also one of only about 10,000 Vulcans left -- and rebuilding civilization is going to take time and effort. A chance meeting with Ambassador Spock -- his counterpart from the future -- clarifies matters. "You can be in two places at once," the elder Spock points out, volunteering to help build a new Vulcan colony while the younger Spock pursues his dreams of space and his new friendship with Kirk. The conversation ends with the elder Spock giving the younger a Vulcan salute, saying, "As my customary farewell would seem oddly self-serving, I will simply say: good luck."
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in a shuttlecraft. Kirk's father and mother are onboard the USS Kelvin while it is under attack, by an enormous Romulan ship. Recently appointed Captain, George Kirk orders the evacuation of the Kelvin, including his wife, who is in labour with their child. Unable to abandon the helm, Kirk talks to his wife over the intercom, while she delivers their son, moments before the Kelvin, with George onboard, is destroyed. George Kirk is played by Chris Hemsworth.
| From an early age, James T. Kirk shows a love for adventure and a disdain for the rules. What is he doing when we first meet him? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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travelling down the road at a very high speed. A very young Kirk 'borrows' a car and, although barely able to see over the dash, is tearing down the road in it, at high speed. Neither being hailed over the radio by his stepfather, owner of the car, nor being chased by a police officer slows him down one little bit. Pursued to the edge of a cliff, Kirk sends the car over the edge of the cliff, bailing out at the last moment. Jimmy Bennett plays the young Kirk.
| Due to his mixed heritage, a young Spock is tormented daily by a group of Vulcan children. What is the taunt that they use, that finally cracks Spock's determined control? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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They tell him that his father is a traitor.. When we first see Spock, he is being drilled by a computer on various topics, as are the rest of the Vulcan children. Afterwards he is approached by a group of children who, we infer from comments made by Spock, spend their time thinking up new taunts for him. He seems resigned to the situation until one boy calls his father a traitor for marrying a human, a lie that he cannot tolerate. This causes Spock to lose his control and fly at the other boys, spoiling for a fight.
The young Spock is played by Jacob Kogan.
| Years go by and we next see Kirk at a bar, trying to talk to Starfleet cadet Uhuru. What is he trying to find out about her, before being set upon by the other cadets? (He also tries to find this out at other points in the film.) | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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her first name. Although Kirk asks Uhura for her first name on a few occasions, she refuses to tell him what it is. Later in the film, when Kirk and Spock are about to beam down to the Romulan craft, Uhura arrives to bid Spock a tearful farewell (revealing the fact that they are involved in a relationship) Spock uses her first name at this point. After she leaves, Kirk says "Nyota", with a definite question in his tone, but Spock says that he has nothing to say about the matter.
Kirk is played by Chris Pine, Spock by Zachary Quinto and Uhura is played by Zoe Saldana.
| Dr. Leonard McCoy and Kirk meet on the shuttle to the Academy. Where, are we led to believe, does McCoy's nickname of 'Bones' come from? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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a comment McCoy makes about his ex-wife taking everything but his bones. As they become acquainted on the shuttle, McCoy complains bitterly about the dangers of space travel. Kirk points out that McCoy is signing up with Starfleet, which conducts all its business in space. McCoy replies by saying, " Yeah. Well, I've got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones."
It is after this that Kirk starts calling him Bones, so presumably this is where the nickname begins. Historically, naval surgeons have been given the nickname of 'sawbones', which is presumably where the nickname came from in the original series.
McCoy is played by Karl Urban.
| While at the Academy, we find Kirk in a passionate embrace with Uhura's roommate. What colour is her skin? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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green. Kirk and the roommate are locked in a passionate embrace on the roommate's bed, talking about how long they have alone before her roommate returns. Her skin is a bright, unmistakable green, although we never find out what race she is. Her roommate, who turns out to be Uhura, returns earlier than expected and Kirk hides under the bed, until Uhura figures out that someone is there.
In the television series, Kirk was very much a ladies man, and although this is often alluded to in the film, this is the only romantic encounter we actually see him in.
| When the distress call comes from Vulcan, Kirk is under charges of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru test. As a result, when the cadets are mustered he is not assigned to any ship. How does he get onboard the Enterprise? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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Dr. McCoy makes him ill and takes him to sick bay.. Citing regulations that allow him to bring Kirk onboard as his patient, McCoy shoots Kirk with a vaccine that will give him symptoms of a disease, allowing him to take his patient into sick bay. While in sick bay, Kirk hears reports of the lightning storm, and remembers reports of a similar odd lightning storm before the USS Kelvin was attacked. He runs to the bridge to inform the Captain. This serious message is delivered while Bones is running around after him, giving him different injections to control his different symptoms, which include swollen hands and an inability to speak because of a numb tongue.
| Captain Pike needs three men to parachute down to the Romulan drill, to disable it. He specifically asks for volunteers who have had training in hand to hand combat. Sulu indicates that he has had such training and volunteers. What kind of hand to hand combat training has Sulu had? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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fencing. Pike accepts Sulu's assertion that he has had hand to hand combat training at face value. When Kirk asks Sulu what kind of training he has had, Sulu answers with "Fencing". Kirk looks a little sceptical, and we have to wonder at just how useful that would be in a fight, but Sulu does engage in some 'swordplay' with one of the Romulans, so it turns out to be of value after all.
Sulu is played by John Cho and Pike is played by Canadian Bruce Greenwood.
| When Kirk and Sulu are hurtling thorough space, who is able to successfully beam them back aboard the Enterprise? | "Star Trek" 2009 Part I
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Chekov. After succeeding in their mission to disable the drill, thereby re-establishing communications, Sulu falls off the deck. Kirk leaps after him, intending to catch him and deploy his parachute, but that manoeuvre fails and the two are left hurtling towards Vulcan. The cadet in charge of the transporter is unable to lock onto the falling bodies, to bring them safely back onboard the Enterprise. Chekov announces that he can do it and runs to the transporter room where he does manage to lock onto them and bring them back onboard.
Chekov is played by Anton Yelchin.
He beams down to rescue the elders.. Even though he has been made acting Captain of the Enterprise (because Captain Pike was summoned aboard the Romulan ship), Spock beams to the crumbling surface of his planet, to rescue the elders. He feels that their survival is necessary to the continuance of the Vulcan culture. His parents are among the elders and he manages to rescue his father. However while waiting to be beamed back onboard the Enterprise, the ground beneath his mother's feet crumbles, and she is lost.
a mining ship. When explaining why he is attacking Vulcan, Nero explains that he is captain of the Narada, once a peaceful mining ship. He was on the ship when his home planet blew up. His ship was sucked into the resultant black hole and taken back in time. He is attempting to rewrite history, while seeking retribution on those people he holds responsible for the destruction of his planet. The fact that it is a mining ship explains why it has the massive drill, which is used to drill towards Vulcan's core. Kirk and Sulu are able to disable the drill, but the damage is done and the Romulans are able to destroy up Vulcan.
Nero is played by Eric Bana.
with red matter. Although never actually defined as such, red matter seems to be equivalent to anti-matter, as it appears to be kept suspended inside the container and, when launched into Vulcan's core, creates an explosion large enough to create a black hole. Even though Kirk and Sulu are able to disable the drill before it reaches the planet's core, the hole is deep enough and Vulcan is destroyed.
| Nero seeks information about Federation defences and communications from a captive Pike, but he refuses to give it up. What persuasion technique does Nero use on Pike? | "Star Trek" 2009 - Part II
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a Centurian slug. Nero demands that Captain Pike beam over to his ship. Before he goes, Pike appoints Spock as acting Captain of the Enterprise. Once there, Pike refuses to give Nero the information he wants, so Nero inserts a Centurian slug in his mouth. It's not clear whether this slug will force Pike to talk through the pain it inflicts, or simply by controlling Pike's mind. Whatever the case, Nero clearly expects Pike to give up the information, once the slug is inside his body.
Captain Pike is played by Bruce Greenwood.
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