In 2009, J.J. Abrams directed the eleventh Star Trek film. This one featured new cast members playing the crew from the Original Series. This film looks at the same crew in an alternate universe where Spock becomes captain of the Enterprise and Kirk is not even allowed on the ship.
Over the course of the film, Kirk tries to "set things right" by becoming captain of the Enterprise and having Spock as his second in command. The premise is basically a power struggle between the dominant group and the halfbreed and Kirk inevitably wins in the end. The film presents Spock being captain as something unnatural that needs to be set right. As usual, when Spock is in charge the crew has a difficult time accepting his authority.
The reboot of the old series maintains many of the stereotypes present in the sixties. Even in this alternate universe Chekov is hard to understand, Sulu is more lethal with a sword than a phaser and does not know how to drive the ship, Spock is not allowed to be more sexual than Kirk, and Uhura is the ship's receptionist.
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