The dogged and damaged cop on their tails is played by Travolta, who’s lost his wife to suicide and is quickly losing his son to alienation while stumbling to form a human connection again with his sometime lover (Dern). His partner (Gandolfini) can only look on as he spirals into obsession with the case.

So bigger still than the question of whether Hollywood golden boy J J Abrams would do the Star Trek name justice is that for the first time ever it’s the perfect blend of rich mythology and rollicking adventure.

Two words, Hollywood; ‘battle fatigue’. How many more historical, computer-generated battles do we have to sit through to see a decent and entertaining movie?