When JJ Abrams’ Star Trek came onto the scene in 2009, sale almost 40 years after the original series went off the air, ed it took audiences to a time that hadn’t been shown before. The movie introduced the future Captain James T. Kirk, troche a corn-fed Iowan boy who had to be convinced to join Starfleet. Kirk did finally leave Earth in the movie and would go on to meet Spock, Uhura, McCoy and the rest of the USS Enterprise gang. But in a spin on the 1960s series, most of the film ended up taking place on or near planets already established in the franchise.

Its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness didn’t fare much better in recapturing the original series’ theme of space exploration, …

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