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THE Star Trek relaunch may not land in Bahrain until May, but it premiered last week at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Among the stars on hand were Chris Pine, who takes on William Shatner's old role as James Kirk, Zachary Quinto, who inherits Leonard Nimoy's Mr Spock, Karl Urban, filling the shoes of DeForest Kelley's Dr McCoy and Eric Bana, who plays a villainous Romulan.
Out of admiration for the original Kirk, Pine noted that when he was cast, he wrote to Shatner a 'letter of introduction and said who I was and what I was doing'.
Quinto had a chance to form a personal relationship with Nimoy, who reprises his role as the older Spock.
"Leonard and I have become very close in this process, and his experience has been unique to him and mine will be unique to me," Quinto said.
John Cho, who plays Mr Sulu, said he chose to take his character in a new direction. "I didn't think it would be wise to do a copy of George Takei's performance," Cho said. "It just didn't seem like the right thing to do, and (director J J Abrams) didn't ask me to do that, so I avoided it."
