– Director: J.J. Abrams

– Stacker score: 89

– Metascore: 82

– IMDb user rating: 7.9

– Runtime: 127 minutes

J.J. Abrams resurrected the “Star Trek” movie franchise with considerable panache in 2009, when he unleashed this action-packed prequel. It stars Chris Pine as a young and rebellious James T. Kirk, who struggles to fill the shoes of his deceased father, a starship captain. After an emergency breaks out on Vulcan, Kirk joins a young crew of cadets aboard the USS Enterprise, and so begins one of the most enduring sci-fi sagas of all time.