More Trek reviews are coming to my inbox. All positives, which is great!

End of Show: JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Dazzles and Delights
Zachary Quinto as Spock is a piece of genius casting, which seems to have been destined since he looks so comfortable in the role. His Spock is conflicted, at times childlike but also overburdened with cultural responsibility.
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Read here the full review, major spoilers alert!

Variety: “Star Trek” rockets along like a beautifully engineered vehicle you can’t help but admire for its design and performance.
Quinto makes for a very good young Spock, a man trying to define and perfect the kind of man he wants to be.
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Hollywood Reporter: J.J. Abrams gives the Starship Enterprise all it’s got, and it’s more than enough.
Quinto (from NBC’s “Heroes”) is an uncanny Spock and holds his own even when confronted by the original in the form of Leonard Nimoy.
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My inbox is full of emails pointing to new interviews. I have added a few ones here, and you can follow it:

Digital Spy had published an article “10 Things You Never Knew About Zachary Quinto”, you can read it here.

Student Life has an interview with Zach and Chris, which you can read here.

MTV.com has also an article/interview with both, Zach and Chris:

‘We made this movie from a place of respect and from a place of celebration for what came before,’ new Spock Zachary Quinto says.

This is an interview done to BBC last Monday, while promoting Star Trek in London:

And if you go here, will watch a behind the scenes interview with Zach about the season finale of Heroes:

This would be added in the previous post, but I decided to make another post just for this updates.

The german website scifinews.de did a GREAT coverage about the German premiere (the best for now, IMO), and I added some goodies they made available in the site. Added 39 HQ pictures of Zach in the photocall and signing autographs outside the theater (credits and copyrights remains intact), and also captures (in HIGH quality) of a video available which covers the whole event, since the arriving until the presentation before the movie starts. I’m still splitting the movie to add here, since is too big, but it will be online soon.

Edit: As promised, the videos are up on our video archive. It takes me a little time to split the video into parts, but the most important ones are now online: The Press Conference, the Blue Carpet and the Movie Presentation. Enjoy it!

Gallery Links
• Public Appearances: Star Trek XI German Premiere
• Interviews: Star Trek XI German Premiere – FULL coverage

Made today, in London. Thanks spinawebofsound for the heads up.

Watch the video @ our video archive

As you may have been noticed, there’s so much information coming through about Zach from Star Trek. It’s almost a full time job trying to keep you updated about all news, pictures and videos, so be sure to come back to the site twice a day (or more, if you want it), because I’m always adding new informations.

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• Interviews: The Press Association – April 20, 2009

On another great review, Zach’s job is, one more time, praised.

But in film, as with everything, it’s less what you do than how you do it, and Star Trek carries itself with immense style and heart. It benefits greatly, too, from a cast that reads like a virtual who’s who of up-and-coming screen talent. Besides Pegg, Saldana, and Pine (the latter solid rather than stunning), there’s also Harold and Kumar’s Jon Cho (as Sulu), Bourne Supremacy hitman Karl Urban (“Bones”) and, above all, Heroes villain Zachary Quinto, the straight-sets star of the movie. His Spock – who’d have thought it? – is fascinating: credibly cerebral, physically volatile, with seething undercurrents of rage. His villainous Heroes association does him no harm, but this is a rich and very different performance for which he deserves great credit.

Read here the full review.

This one gave a rating 8/10.

Quinto is Spock and a revelation in a role a galaxy apart from his Heroes villainy while Urban superbly channels DeForest Kelley as Bones and late arrival Pegg gives the climax some comic legs.

Read here the full review

As previous announced here before, Zach will be today in a live interview. It’s happening at 4pm GMT (8am PST, 11am EST). You can follow it here.

UPDATE: Zach and Chris were interviewed by Lorraine Kelly in GMTV today. Captures were added to the gallery, also caps of this video, with a short part of Madrid Press Junket.

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• Interviews: Madrid Press Junket
• Interviews: GMTV with Lorraine Kelly, April 20, 2009

IGN.com has published a Star Trek review, which I will post just the Zach related excerpts. But it worth go to the site and read the full review, of course, if you want to read some mid-spoilers.

Pine and Quinto are superb as Kirk and Spock.
It is these differences between Spock and Kirk, and their complex relationship, that is at the heart of all that is best with Star Trek. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner’s portrayals of the series’ most iconic characters are burnt into our collective consciousness, so for the writers, and the actors playing them, presenting them in a fresh way that avoided caricature would always be extremely difficult.

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Yet scriptwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and of course Pine and Quinto who play the duo, succeed brilliantly in this aim and give the movie (and hopefully the ensuing franchise) its heart and soul. The pair are just perfectly cast. Pine looks and sounds nothing like Shatner, but gets right to the essence of Kirk’s character with his combination of rough-shod charm and cocky arrogance. The actor looks like just another product of Hollywood’s bland pretty-boy conveyor belt, but actually proves extremely charismatic and nails the part.

Quinto — most famous, of course, as Sylar from Heroes — is even better. The film truly revolves around him, with his thoughtful performance effortlessly conveying the dichotomy that makes Spock so interesting: his infuriatingly logical surface persona that hides a barely suppressed well of emotion. When Spock and Kirk, who loath each other for most of the film, are together onscreen the film comes alive.

Read the full review here

Zach is featured in May issue of InStyle, as “Man of Style“. Thanks to Accidental Sexiness we have scans to read the interview. Also there’s some quotes from Kristen Bell, Zoe Saldana and Hayden Pannetiere about our guy.

Kristen Bell: “Zach has the charm and confidence of an old-time movie star. There’s mystery in his eyes.”
Hayden Pannetiere: “He’s very hip and versatile. Plus, he has perfect muscle tone and can wear anything.”
Zoe Saldana: “He has a certain poise that makes you notice him the moment he walks into a room. He’s also funny as hell.”

You will also find more pictures in both Madrid and Germany Star Trek albums.

Gallery LInks
• Public Appearances: Star Trek Germany Premiere
• Public Appearances: Star Trek Madrid Photocall
• Magazines: InStyle, May 2009

This guys are busy!

They’re now on Madrid. Added a few pictures, with more on the way:

Updated: Thanks to Mary, added a few more HQ’s in both Berlin and Madrid albums. And thanks to Anula, some Germany candids.
Updated again: TrekMovie.com has a big report from Berlin, including videos.

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• Public Appearances: Star Trek Madrid Photocall – April 17
• Public Appearances: Star Trek Germany Premiere – April 16
• Candids: Germany, April 16, 2009

As you may (or may not) know, I’m from Brazil. Our press hasn’t access to the movie yet, but the site Omelete (a good site about cinema) has published a review this week. They sent a collaborator to Paris, so here’s the excerpt where she talks about Zach/Spock (no spoiler!)

Board diary. Paris. Star Trek. Cetic session reserved for the European press and a round of exclusive interviews. And in middle of this, it’s me. Double outsider, Brazilian and completely out of the trekker world. (…)

Zachary Quinto – A Spock wasn’t ever enough
To start, something off-topic: in the hotel’s lounge where the interviews took place I came to two French assistants and said “Am I the only one who thinks that Zachary Quinto is hot?!” and then, they reply “I think yes!”. Imagine me, looking to them, and thinking “Wow, male French market must be really high, for this two leave Spock without thinking about…”

Back to Star Trek… J. J. and his crew made the right thing to invest in the Spock’s history, the high point of the film because his history it is much more interesting than Kirk’s. C’mon, he’s half human, half Vulcan. And that hi-five Vulcan is brilliant! I almost said hi to Zach like this: \\// !

The guy does very well the duality of the character, some coldness that adding a thrilling, strong emotion printed in his eyes. The make up and costumes are also totally faithful to original. And another confession: ever never having followed the history, watch Leonard Nimoy as old Spock was touching. I’m glad he accepted to make the role.

(…) As would say Spock, “Peace and long life.”\\//

I am SO glad and SO proud for all positive reviews I’m reading about Zach’s performance! Can’t wait to see by myself!