New Footage from Trek Fim Revealed

Paramount has released a new trailer for J. J. Abrams's forthcoming Star Trek film, giving fans a tantalizingly close look at the new Enterprise, the new Kirk, and Abrams's new vision for how Trek's original band of heroes got started in the business.

The trailer hints at an origin story for Kirk as a boy and a young man (played by Chris Pine), and a parallel story for future best friend Spock (Zachary Quinto), and an early adventure for the green Enterprise crew.

A set of images from the film has also been released, posted here as an image gallery.

Abrams unveiled four additional clips from the prequel at a press event in London last week, as reported by the BBC. The clips gave away more of the storyline and included a scene in which Spock delivers the famous Vulcan benediction, "Live long and prosper."

Abrams said he wanted the film to feel "legitimate and real." Though not originally a fan of the show himself, Abrams became excited by the project and says he wanted to be true to the show despite its "cardboard planets."

"It was always someone else's show," he explained but after reading the script, he said he would have been "jealous" had another director taken on the project. Simon Pegg, who plays Montgomery Scott in the new film, told the crowd he couldn't express how excited he was to co-star in a Star Trek film.

The trailer looks very promising in a number of respects: the film is obviously designed to be both glossy and action-packed, on the one hand, yet with a serious attempt to explain what motivates Kirk and Spock and how these two strong-willed individuals forged a partnership. At least one more trailer can be expected between now and the release date to shed light on Abrams's vision and the new actor's depictions of these characters we've known for 40 years.

The movie stars Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Eric Bana (Nero), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Winona Ryder (Amanda Grayson), Zoe Saldana (Nyota Uhura), Karl Urban (Leonard 'Bones' McCoy), John Cho (Hikaru Sulu), Bruce Greenwood (Christopher Pike), Ben Cross (Sarek), Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov), Leonard Nimoy (Old Spock), Greg Ellis (Chief Engineer Olsen), and Chris Hemsworth (George Kirk).