LOS ANGELES -- The latest "Star Trek" enterprise beamed to the top of the North American box office this weekend, putting a Vulcan mind meld on "Wolverine" Hugh Jackman, preliminary industry figures showed Sunday.

The film grossed $76.5 million on the weekend, including $4 million in Thursday preview screenings, easily surpassing the best opening weekend of any of the sci-fi franchise's 10 other "Trek" movies, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

The Star Trek reboot also nearly tripled the $27-million take of superhero spinoff "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which claimed the best debut of the year one weekend earlier with $87 million.

Jackman, a 40-year-old Australian heartthrob named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine last year, has starred as the mutant superhero in the three previous "X-Men" movies.

Trailing a distant third was romantic comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, which earned $10.45 million in its second week.

Superstar singer Beyonce's taut thriller "Obsessed" slipped one spot to fourth with $6.6 million, for a total of $56.2 million over three weeks.

Youthful fantasy "17 Again," starring US teen idol Zac Efron, also fell one spot, to fifth, taking in $4.4 million for a $54.2-million total over four weeks.

Debuting at number six was comic caper "Next Day Air," about a bungled cocaine delivery and the efforts to retrieve it. As the only R-rated film in the top 12, it took in $4 million.

In seventh spot was "The Soloist," an inspiring musical tale based on a true story and starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx, which scored $3.6 million in ticket sales on its third weekend.

"Monsters vs Aliens," an animated tale of a rag-tag group of monsters who save the world from destruction, dropped three spots to eighth, earning just 3.4 million dollars but basking in its seven-week haul of 186.9 million over seven weeks.

Disney's "Earth" documentary, in ninth place, culls extraordinary nature footage from the BBC's landmark series "Planet Earth." It brought in $2.5 million on its third weekend.

Miley Cyrus vehicle "Hannah Montana: The Movie," slipped two places to 10th. The film version of the popular Disney TV series took in $2.4 million for a total of $74.1 million in five weeks.