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Troops get peek at ‘Star Trek’

Beam ’em into the theater, Scotty.

About 440 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will get to see the newest Star Trek movie at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on Saturday — about a month before its stateside premiere, Army and Air Force Exchange Service officials announced Friday.

The troops will get an extra treat at AAFES’ Reel Time Theater: The actors playing the new recruits on the Starship Enterprise will also attend — Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Nero (Eric Bana), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) and Lt. Sulu (John Cho). Director J.J. Abrams also will be on hand.

The directors, actors, Paramount Pictures, the local command and AAFES worked together to make the screening special for troops, Roy Robertson, AAFES’ vice president of restaurants and hospitality, said in the announcement.

The movie, simply titled “Star Trek,” recounts the early days of the original characters, with Kirk and Spock starting out as bitter rivals rather than the close friends they would one day become. Kirk, a “delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy,” locks horns with Spock, who was raised in a logic-based society devoid of all emotion. On their maiden voyage, the young crew “must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind,” the news release states.

“Star Trek” is scheduled to open in the U.S. on May 8.