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See what we through of the teaser for J.J. Abrams new film about the crew of the USS Enterprise

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Reinvention with reverence: That's what fans expect from J.J. Abrams, who's directing the new Trek movie, and that's pretty much what this teaser delivers. Greasy, sweaty workmen — a rarity in Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's 23rd century — weld together a grandly massive USS Enterprise accompanied by iconic space-age sound bites (''The eagle has landed''). It does irk a bit that the assembly's on Earth, not in space, and that the ''Enterprise'' typeface on the hull is new. But when Leonard Nimoy, returning as Spock, intones ''Space, the final frontier'' at the end, we still get serious goose bumps. A-

Originally posted Feb 01, 2008 Published in issue #977 Feb 08, 2008 Order article reprints

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