Bradford’s Star Trek fans will be eager to boldly book a seat for the ultimate experience aboard the USS Enterprise next week.

For at one minute past midnight on May 7, the National Media Museum (NMM) is screening the latest Star Trek movie on its giant Imax screen.

But don’t panic – if you can’t get one of the 250 tickets for that screening, 47 others are scheduled throughout May. There will be others in June.

Tim Neal, visitor insight executive at the NMM and self-confessed Trekkie, said: “Seeing the new Star Trek on Imax, a screen the height of four double-deck buses, will take the movie to new heights – literally.

“It’s the first space opera to be show on Imax and I can’t wait to see it.”

Mark Adams, whose IT business in Horsforth is called Galileo after the shuttle craft on the USS Enterprise, said he grew up thinking his dad was Captain Kirk. He said: “My favourite Trek quote is by Spock in Amok Time. After battling for a woman’s attention he says: ‘Stahn, you may find that after a time wanting is far more rewarding than having. It’s illogical but often true’.”

The new film goes back in time to when the crew of the USS Enterprise – Captain James T Kirk, Mr Spock and Dr ‘Bones’ McCoy – made their maiden voyage in the most advanced starship ever created. The new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose vengeance threatens to destroy mankind.

Instead of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForrest Kelley and James Doohan – the original cast of 23rd century characters – Captain James T Kirk, Mr Spock, Dr ‘Bones’ McCoy and Scotty are played by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and Simon Pegg respectively.

The Star Trek crew’s five year mission, which started in 1966, actually went on for 178 television episodes. The latest two-hour movie is the 11th.

Star Trek broke new ground in the mid-1960s. It showed a multi-racial, inter-galactic crew of mixed gender, working together at a time when segregation was still an issue in some parts of the United States and was policy throughout South Africa.

Tickets for the screening are £8 and £6. The box office number is 0870 7010200.