Star Trek 星際爭霸戰

This installment has achieved a nearly impossible hat trick. It's a movie that is exegetically correct enough to appease the most hard-core buffs, while opening up the final frontier to a whole new generation of fans who have yet to appreciate "Star Trek's" ineffable combination of sci-fi action, campy humor and yin-yang philosophical tussle between logic and emotion. A nifty cameo appearance midway through "Star Trek" may be a bit too much of a good thing in the film's final chapter, but still gives it a satisfying full-circle touch.

Lord, please look kindly upon screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who have eschewed the dour pseudo-depth, snarky irony and sadistic violence of so many recent action movies. Keep them steadfast in their devotion to resuscitating not only the "Star Trek" brand, but also a long-abandoned principle in American cinema: pure pop pleasure.

Finally, mad celestial props to director J.J. Abrams, who has woven myth and escapism together so masterfully with the TV show "Lost," and who proves such an able steward of the "Star Trek" narrative and characters here. We are exceedingly grateful for his passion, his crisp attention to pacing, his unbridled joy in the Enterprise and its optimistic, intergalatically cosmopolitan enterprise. In an era when, in real life, Klingons would be logging on and even the Borg would have a blog, here is a filmmaker attuned to things both ancient and new, who has generously rewarded the pull of generational nostalgia without pandering or condescending to it.

Lord, we thank thee for imbuing Abrams with taste and conscience enough to guarantee that "Star Trek" will once again live long and prosper. May he do the same.

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