It’ll blow your mind: come sail away with “Star Trek”

Hardcore Trekkies and closet sci-fi fanatics alike will love the 2009 version of “Star Trek,” which surpassed $70 million at the box office this weekend, its first. It’s big and bold and moves at warp speed. No napping here.

Directed by J.J. Abrams, the same genius who does ABC’s “Lost,” the movie glitters like the galaxies it portrays, offering stellar performances by Chris Pine as young Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as young Spock.

Time collides in “Star Trek,” but there’s time enough for truth and beauty ala Leonard Nemoy, the father of the Vulcans. Many space travelers, however, meet gruesome and untimely deaths in “Star Trek” and thus the PG-13 rating, a first for the series. This movie is not for young kids!

Listen up: “Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence,” says Karl Urban as the ever-vigilant Dr. McCoy. Sounds dangerous, and yes it is, though “Star Trek” made a believer out of me.

Read a full review of this out-of-the-world summer blockbuster in “Flick Picks” on Thursday’s weekend page.