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“STAR TREK” Synopsis: The greatest adventure Paramount Pictures and Spyglass of all time begins with “Star Trek,” the Entertainment Present incredible story of a young crew’s maiden A Bad Robot Production voyage onboard the most advanced star- “Star Trek” ship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. Executive Producers Bryan Burk On a journey filled with action, comedy Jeffrey Chernov Roberto Orci Alex and cosmic peril, the new recruits must Kurtzman find a way to stop an evil being whose Produced by J.J. Abrams Damon mission of vengeance threatens all of Lindelof mankind. Based upon “Star Trek” Created by The fate of the galaxy rests in the Gene Roddenberry hands of bitter rivals. One, James T. Kirk Written by Roberto Orci & Alex (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Kurtzman Iowa farm boy. The other, (Zachary Directed by J.J. Abrams Quinto), was raised in a logic-based soci- Cast: John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce ety that rejects all emotion. As fiery Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, instinct clashes with calm reason, their , Winona Ryder, Zoë unlikely but powerful partnership is the Saldana, Karl Urban, only thing capable of leading their crew Anton Yelchin, with Eric Bana and through unimaginable danger, boldly Congratulations Leonard Nimoy going where no one has gone before! Coupon No. 41 him first about a particular ship, which suggestion off and says that The correct answer is ‘three’ Robau does not recognize, and then isn’t much of a first name. They decide about the whereabouts of Ambassador to name him Jim, after Winona’s father. The correct answer is ‘Sid’ Evacuate or face the Spock, with whom Robau is also unfa- Communication is cut off as the Kelvin 1. Shivan Marimutthu – Rajagiriya miliar. Upon citing the stardate, Robau smashes into the Narada, crippling it 2. K. G. Anusha – Maharagama is impaled with a teral’n, a pronged for a while and giving the shuttles time 3. Nadesha Munasinghe – Kalubowila blade weapon, by Nero, and the display to escape. 4. Mohomed Nafaz – Maligawatta of his vital signs on the bridge of the Approximately ten years later, a 5. Imesha Hansani Hemasingha – Kotte consequences... Kelvin instantly flatlines; Robau is young James T. Kirk (Jimmy Bennett) 6. Manel Jayasinha – Dehiwala dead. Kirk orders the is in Iowa, having taken his stepfather’s 7. P. Weerasinghe – Colombo 10 Kelvin to open antique car and racing it down the road 8. A. J. S. Dharmapriya – Nugegoda while blasting 20th century music. As a 9. H. M. Ariyarathna – Colombo 02 Soon on screen policeman (Jeremy Fitzgerald) on a fly- 10. Ananda Wikramaarachchi – n the year 2233, the USS Kelvin the Kelvin, inflicting heavy damage. ing motorcycle chases after him, Kirk Awissawella investigates a lightning storm in The Narada’s captain, Nero (Eric heads for a quarry and jumps out of the Your complimentary tickets will be Ispace, which the crew soon realizes Bana), hails the outmatched Kelvin and car, moments before it speeds over the delivered by EAP Films & Theatre is a black hole. A massive vessel, the demands that its captain, Richard edge. (Pvt) Ltd. shortly. “Narada”, emerges, creating an alter- Robau (Faran Tahir), come aboard the Around the same time on Vulcan nate timeline. The Narada opens fire on Narada via shuttlecraft. Captain Robau (Jacob Kogan), a young Spock is being agrees and hands command of the ship tormented by bullies (Lorenzo James to his first officer, George Kirk (Chris Henrie, Colby Paul, Cody Klop) who Hemsworth). Robau orders Kirk to wait tease him about his mixed heritage, fifteen minutes for his signal or else calling his father a traitor for marrying evacuate the ship. a human mother, whom they call a Robau is taken to Nero while the whore. The three have previously crew of the Kelvin monitors him. It is failed to invoke an emotional response the Romulan captain’s first officer, Ayel in Spock by stirring his human side 34 (Clifton Collins Jr.), who interrogates fire. As the situ- times before, but this time they take it ation worsens and he real- too far. Their plan backfires, and Spock izes that the damage to the Kelvin is knocks one of the older boys into a compromising the lives and safety of learning pod and beats him in an emo- everyone, he orders the crew to escape tional rage. He is later admonished by pods and shuttles, including his wife his father, Sarek (Ben Cross), who is Winona (Jennifer Morrison), who is disappointed at his son’s lack of emo- about to give birth. tional control and tells him that he has Kirk tries to plot a collision course a path to choose and that only he can with the Narada, but autopilot naviga- make the decision. tion is offline; he will need to control the Kelvin himself. He orders his wife to leave on the shuttle without him. She protests, but Kirk knows that he has no choice but to stay behind and continue the attack in order to protect the others who are leaving on escape pods. On the shuttlecraft, Winona Kirk gives birth to a baby boy. As the Kelvin destroys the missiles aimed at the shuttles, Kirk can hear his newborn’s cries, realizing that he will never meet his son. Just before the Kelvin is about to collide with the Romulan vessel, Kirk asks Winona what they should name their son. She suggests naming him after George’s father, but he laughs the