Moving at warp speed, 'Star Trek' isn't exactly going where no man has boldly gone before, but it's certainly worth the trip to see how a franchise that's over 40 years old has been rebooted to bridge fans and newcomers.
When the last film, 'Star Trek: Nemesis (2002),' didn't do so well at the box office and actually grossed less than all of the previous Trek films, many thought that it was time to hang it up.
With director J.J. Abrams on board, the newest movie in the series is not only action-packed but also filled with surprises.
From the outset of the film, as kinetic an opening as there could ever be, James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine) is born while his father, a Starfleet captain for 12 minutes, sacrifices his life for the safety of his crew. His peril comes at the hands of Romulan Nero (Eric Bana), who has traveled back in time to right a wrong he felt was done to him.

As an adult, Kirk is rebellious and loves to get into fights until Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) tells him that his destiny lies with Starfleet. When he enlists in the academy, Kirk's most trusted ally becomes Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban). Meanwhile on Planet Vulcan, Spock (Zachary Quinto) endures ridicule because his mother (an unrecognizable Winona Ryder) is human. Defying his elders, including his father (Ben Cross), Spock feels a better future awaits and also decides to join the academy.
When Spock and Kirk finally meet, their encounter is far different from the long-lasting friendship they develop years later. Due to a crisis involving national security, Kirk gets onboard the starship USS Enterprise, along with communications officer Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Starfleet officer Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) and Hikaru Sulu (John Cho).
Nero returns determined to destroy Earth, and the crew must band together to stop him.
'Star Trek' is a well-crafted, entertaining film filled with substance and dazzling special effects. Credit initially goes to screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman for coming up with a concept that will please newcomers and fans who know each character too well. As a bonus, Leonard Nimoy makes an appearance.
As Kirk, Pine carries the same ladies' man charm that his predecessor, William Shatner, possessed and does the character proud.
Quinto is perfect in his role. From the looks to the speech, he is Spock. As the lead female of the crew, Saldana adds some spice and sexiness to her role. Bana is no Khan, but he can't be blamed for his limited screen time.
For those who may be wondering, Tyler Perry doesn't disappoint in his first role outside of his own projects. Perry was commanding. He left his Madea persona home and looked sharp in his uniform
With the exception of Yelchin's annoying Russian accent as Chekov and a questionable romance between two key characters, Gene Roddenberry should be smiling knowing that his creation is in good hands.


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By: Lucien BONNET on 5/10/2009 10:10AM
Montreal, March 22, 1995
President William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
U.S.A.
Mister President:
Please allow me to take the opportunity of your visit to Haiti, as President
of the United States of America, on March 31, 1995, to pay due tribute in
all sincerity to you and your distinguished wife, Mrs. Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
You honor Haiti and the Haitian people with your presence and support.
Thanks to you and your allies in the United Nations and the Organization of
American States, the return-to-democracy process has been successfully
carried out. Now that the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has
been reinstated in his official status, it is with legitimate pride, I am
sure that he welcomes you to his country. For you, as well as for us, the
"Uphold Democracy" operation is truly a beautiful historical moment.
Mr. President, I come from Haiti, that underdeveloped country.
With underdeveloped tools - a camera and a few films - I have tried, in
order to serve my country's cause, to demystify the word "light" and
denounce Newton's Theory of Colors.
With that same desire to serve constitutional legitimacy in my country, I
have written the enclosed book entitled Haiti, Let There Be Light! I hope
that you and Mrs. Clinton will accept this privately produced copy,
especially intended for you, while you are getting ready for your trip to
Haiti.
May I make a confession to you, Mr. President? I followed, closely and with
intense interest, your electoral campaign, election, and swearing-in
ceremony as 42nd President of the United States. What a great nation you
represent! Please believe me: your courageous commitment to facilitate the
restoration of democracy in my country has escaped no one. On the very day
of your swearing-in ceremony, I wished to send you my book, Haïti, Que La
Lumière Soit!, which questions Newton's Theory of Colors. I did not do so,
because I felt an English-language version would be more appropriate.
Since I could not send you a copy of the yet-to-be-published English version
of my book, I contented myself with dreaming - dreaming that on one of your
first evenings in the White House, you were seated in the Oval Room with
Mrs. Clinton and your daughter Chelsea. You were reading Haïti, Que La
Lumière Soit! I imagined you carefully examining certain passages of that
work in its English version, which is now in preparation - typed by a
sightless, multilingual Haitian. Those paragraphs deal with the so-called
missing matter, darkness in space, "black holes" - in a word: the invisible
mass of the Cosmos. You notice Dr. Carl Sagan's research on Exobiology and
the DNA found in the dark matter in the universe, and you suddenly remember
a Time article from April 10, 1978 entitled "Black Holes and Martian
Valleys", which contained the following passage:
"A while later, astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself
lugging his slide box into the Vice President's big new house and, after
coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the
heavens.
Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White
House since Thomas Jefferson.
Nixon could not run a tape recorder.
Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wrist watch.
Not Jimmy. He was fascinated by the discussion of "Black Holes" and the
speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the Universe
together."
"Well," you exclaimed, "O.K. for former President Carter. It is normal for
the President of a star-spangled republic to choose between "Star Peace" and
"Star War". As to the former President's inclination toward Einstein's
physics and/or Planck's Quantum Theory, there is a great temptation to apply
certain laws of the Cosmos to politics and diplomacy. Consider the "Tunnel
Effect", the way that energy escapes from black holes.
"Carter goes back to the sources and draws inspiration from them. That makes
me think about Aristide - both of them are well at ease in both the Western
world and the Black world: the visible and the invisible. However, there is
one difference: the Haitians follow Aristide everywhere, like a comet's
tail. If Aristide is considered as a "Black Sun", then the Haitians are
"space refugees".
"Yes, Haiti! We are pulled down to earth. Democracy. the exodus of the Boat
People. with the Law of Probabilities, whether we think about Planck or
Carter, it doesn't seem that a solution will be found tomorrow.
"What business did the Haitians have in that "boat"?"
"Say, there above, the Black Twin! Is it still broad daylight in the shadow
of the "Black Sun"?"
"Oh God," you say aloud to Mrs. Clinton: "Eureka! I have found it! Fiat lux!
Let there be light! Que la lumière soit! Black holes, black sun, tunnel
effect, Aristide effect, boat people, space refugees, Carl Sagan, Jimmy
Carter, six of one and half a dozen of the other."
There is loud laughter in the Oval Room.
Bill a ri Bill laughed
Hillary a ri Hillary laughed
Chelsea a ri aussi Chelsea laughed too
Humor is American, Mr. President, and so are dreams. Let my book Haïti, Que
La Lumière Soit! be the "dark matter", arguing in favor of the development
of the Black world - visible and invisible!
In the area of science, high technology, creative innovation, and space
exploration, I think there is nothing that America cannot deal with. That is
why, in that spaceship of universal energy, I dare sail with a dream.
In my dream, it is your first trip inside your SPACE AIR FORCE ONE,
propelled by the energy of invisible and concentrated dark matter, like
black holes. A mini black hole of an avant-garde design whose motor sequence
develops inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of
light, and scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon.
What a new synthesis, but also what a liberation!
Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird - contracted and
unfolded at the same time, following the heartbeat of the Universe tamed
inside the infinitely small: "One small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind!"
This would be the natural and constructive counterpart of Newton's Theory of
Light and Colors, which slows down that impulse. This is a necessary change
in the name of development and progress humbly submitted on behalf of Haiti:
a testimony of gratitude toward mankind. Let us go further, to the other
side of the Universe, as suggested by an eyewitness: the Hubble telescope,
with its camera.
". Hubble focused on the centre of the galaxy [M87], an area 500 light-years
across. The pictures revealed a spiral structure formed by fast-moving gas
clouds being drawn toward the centre, rather like water going down a drain."
Dr. Harms said the Hubble spectrographic camera was then focused on points
60 light-years across on opposite sides of the spinning disc. This camera
breaks down light into its wavelength parts, rather like a prism separates
colours in sunlight." (The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1994)
Let us in the long run, replace the camera by a motor run by the ENERGY OF
THE YEAR 2000, transforming the DARK MATTER from the invisible to the
visible and vice versa. We would there by take advantage of the sequence of
colored and colorless light speeds, so as to better visit the Universe,
where law and order are transcendent, just as in democracy.
I have decided to write this letter because your leadership, Mr. President,
like an inevitable and immeasurable energy, has practically absorbed me,
allowing me to express myself.
Your present trip to Haiti is the strongest confirmation of that sequence of
events, and illustrates an unprecedented chapter in the annals of Haiti, as
well as in the life of the Haitian people
Thank you, Mr. President, for associating Haiti with your Strategic
Development Initiative (S.D.I.) at the dawn of the "Star Peace".
Lucien Bonnet
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Laval, Canada, APRIL 18, 2009
MISTER PRESIDENT:
We must feel strong, because You did a great JOB to face U.S.s Latin American Critics ,
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
AS GOD BLESS YOU and BLESS THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !
WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD HAS IT EYES ON YOU. ON YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR FAMILY !
Everyone congratulates You to have been democratically elected and took the oath of office
in January 2009 and see that something happen in America.
Why The Obama Administration is so important for the American People and abroad ?
- Because: 'It is in adversity', I was going to say in 'darkness', that one recognizes true friends.
"That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against
a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence
of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices
and prepare the nation for a new age." (FROM The Text of President Obama's inaugural address)
Because "The people of the Caribbean, the peoples of the world have become fed up with the policies
of United States of America, [which] treated the rest of the world as if it did not exist,''
said Denzil Douglas, prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Because ''We have seen a totally different approach from this new administration.'' Douglas said.
"There has to be dialogue, there has to be consensus, there has to be the need for people's interest
be taken into consideration as the United States plans its own foreign policy and domestic policy.''
Because, "Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by Today's Energy crisis", what does Science
hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?
Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.
My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Mister President, to an inexhaustible source of energy,
which one should tame now.
In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause,
entitled 'BILL A RI And There Was Light', addressed during his last American election campaign
to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.
It's like to say to you, President Obama, that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today
- in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the American expertise,
of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out.
There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister President. In spite of my Haitian ascent
and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through.
A taboo of magnitude, Sir, I admit it. A 'scientific' taboo, seldom encountered.
'The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative,' affirms Roger Caillois.
It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting
the theory of Newton on light and colors.
However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it,
should I say what an asset!
Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon
of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of 'Black Holes',
synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed
the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole! So much and so well
that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting.
Physicists say it: 'ninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe (Grosso Modo -
said here roughly by Lucien BONNET - for more precisions see "LINKS" or "GOOGLE")
is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible,
like the sea surrounds the continents'. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it.
The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.
My intervention, here, President Obama, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy.
By decoding the Black Matter. Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While 'returning the
elevator to Newton' - without a play on words. By the Act which consists in making an
AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS.
Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause?
- Objectively and in a pragmatic way, how not focusing on the new synthesis?
Consequently, what a liberation!
At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis!
'Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rhythm of the universe's heartbeat,
tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity.'
One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in 'BILL A RI and there was light! '
Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient Energy crisis if I dare say which invites us to explore other avenues,
other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected.
Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence
of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe.
Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy!
Energetic formula with a unique character!
In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse!
A winning formula!
In The United States of America.
By The United States of America.
For The United States Of America and abroad!
With you today, President Obama, I repeat this sentence - since 1972 and 1978
- that is to say forty years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message
that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium,
as I said since 1972 and on April 10, 1978, in a Letter to Doctor Carl Sagan:
'On the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral
- sine qua non part - of color and light process'.
Is it still broad daylight
In the shadow of the Black Sun?
Lucien BONNET
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
PLEASE SEE: (The CERN Large Hadron Collider)
RE : Lucien Bonnet - (His interest led him to carry out research on Western concepts
related to the study of color - by the way of Newtons Theory of Colors - as following):
Newtons Theory of Colors !
First of all, what is Newtons Theory of Colors?
Let me remind readers that the concept of color that stems from scientific experimentation
is based on the demonstration in 1665 by the well-known scientist Isaac Newton.
This experiment consists in running a visible light ray called white light
through a prism in a dark room, breaking down that light into a continuous
spectrum encompassing all the colors.
Newton thought he had there by proven that white light is broken down by the
prism into a series of seven refracted rays which produced the colors from
red to violet on the screen on which they are projected. He therefore
concluded that white light contains various lights, each one of which is
darker than the white light itself and each of which is part of the whole.
And the darkest of all (real blackness), according to Newton, is simply an
absence of light.
My point of view, which is shared by many scientists, is that when the dark
room, which is actually black, is penetrated by the visible light ray, it
turns into an area with a mixture of darkness and white light, so that it is
no longer a dark room. This is the origin of Newtons error, which is
the result of an incorrect observation.
In other words, the basic elements of his experiment are not what he thought
they were: in the course of the experiment, we are actually dealing with a
quasi-dark or quasi-white room. Consequently, the prism in that quasi-dark
room reflects the real situation; that is to say, the prism itself is
already under the influence of this mixture of white light and darkness.
That fact escaped Newtons notice.
In fact, the prism in the dark room where the experiment was carried out
receives darkness from one angle and a beam of white light from the other.
The prism thereby puts these two elements into action. The incident light
ray is transformed, softened under the effect of the surrounding shade.
Acting as a wave mixer, the prism integrates the white light and the
darkness. It synthesizes them in vitro based on a given degree in the
well-known Gray scale used in photography and color television. Under the
effect of the incident ray, which acts like a projector, the refracted, very
subtle gray ray passes through the prism. The continuous spectrum of all the
colors is formed in a quasi-dark room on a quasi-white screen, given that
the spectrum was born of both white light and darkness.
We therefore find that the continuous color scale, as we know it, is
constituted by the breaking down, not of white light, but a mixture of white
light and darkness - that is, of gray. As the German scholar Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: This is the proof of the existence of the law
where by light is nothing else than a mixture of light and darkness, to
different degrees. [our translation] Thus, Newtons theory of colors proves
to be completely false.
Nevertheless, the techniques used in industries dealing with photography,
cinematography and television are still based on that erroneous theory.
In photography, laboratories are quick to discover in their work that the
sum of the colors of the spectrum is gray, not white. That is why they are
compelled to introduce the black color to obtain the white. There you have a
demonstration in reverse that black is an integral part of light and color
processes. Remember that this fact completely escaped Newtons notice.
Unfortunately, even though, in their use and application of the color scale,
photo labs notice Newtons error and correct it in practice, they still do
not make the error more widely known.
Why ?
Some people might say that big industries using color processes - printing,
photography, movies, television and even microprocessors - keep to that
erroneous theory for the sake of major financial interests, especially
concerning patents and trade secrets. In addition, certain anti-Black
prejudices, deeply rooted in Western culture as well as in the field of
optics, have to be taken into account at this phase of rest and almost
stagnation, rather than theoretical progress.
It is then up to the scientific world today - researchers, university
professors, etc. - to overcome such hindrances and correct Newtons theory,
in order to free the way for progress.
Lucien Bonnet
Article published in the Montreal daily newspaper Le Devoir on April 15, 1986.
The author of the article, aHaitian-born Montrealer, has made a movie entitled
Where are you Headed, Haiti? and makes mention of that concept :
The incorrect observation in the experiment by Newton and the origin of Newtons error.
Lucien BONNET
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
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By: April on 5/09/2009 10:33PM
I saw the new Star Trek Movie. OMG!! I loved it! I was scared at first, knowing they were using a different cast, okay scared of all choices except for Zachary Quinto as young Spock. All the new cast embodied the personalities of each character. Scotty was great! Zachary as Spock was phenomenal and Karl Urban as Bones was spot on!! I( will actually buy this movie when it comes out on DVD (not bootleg) and add it to my other Star Trek movie collection, I've got them all.
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