Star Trek (2009)

Built for people who have never seen Star Trek. J.J. Abrams restarts the story with a young Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) in an alternate timeline, so nothing you missed on TV counts against you, and it plays as a fast, funny origin story about two rivals learning to be a crew. Leonard Nimoy appears as an older Spock, a bridge to the original that becomes a lovely bonus if you go back to the earlier films later. It is also the only Star Trek film to win an Oscar, for its makeup. If the 1980s effects of the older films put you off, start here.