In anticipation of Star Trek Beyond we’re taking a look back at the Star Trek film that kicked off the Kelvin Timeline! For our thoughts on Into Darkness, check out our initial review when the movie was released, and our follow-up article “Is Into Darkness Really ‘Star Trek?'”

Re-starting and re-booting a franchise as important and unique as Star Trek is a pretty difficult task, and we think JJ Abrams and company did a very good job. Our rating for the 2009 Star Trek film is 8 out of 10.

As a reminder, we’re using a different scale for our movie reviews (out of 10 rather than being out of 5), and we’ll eventually rank them all.

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