And it cxonfirmed my original thoughts. Typical hollywood rubbish, a real let down and a massive missed opportunity.

I wish I lived in the star trek world as I would scoot back in time (everyone is doing it) and take my capital ship that pulls G like an f16 and blow the crapola out of JJ's very generic and common form script.

My thoughts only

It's the only Star Trek film that hasn't put me to sleep.

I saw it for the second time last night as well, and I see what you mean about the 'generic and common form script'. Wasn't this basically the same story as 'Nemesis'?

...but hey, it's a ST movie! While they can always be better, I've never regretted watching one.

To each their own I guess but I really like the new JJ Abrams film. The weakest ST movies for me are Insurrection and Star Trek V and even those two have some good aspects to them.

Regardless of whatever one may think about the new JJ-verse Star Trek, one fact that remains is that unlike the previous couple ST films it made a ton of money for Paramount. ST: Enterprise and ST: Nemesis were both big commercial flops so Paramount could have either discontinued the franchise for good or it could have given another film-maker a shot at reviving it. I'm glad the latter happened.

I thought Insurrection was one of the better ones, but I did have somewhat of a crush on Picard's 300 year old bird.

ST seems to have disappeared from all the TV channels that I have access to. Must be years since I've seen any of the series.

Insurrection was a 2 hour boring Trek TV episode. It almost made Star Trek V look good. Almost.

I second that, the best ST movie so far.

It is the only Star Trek movie I would like to see burned in a fire never to see the light of day again.

And now we have another JJ Abrams Trek abomination on the way.

The Prime Universe Trek is the only true Star Trek.

Found it pretty uninteresting; formulaic, very 201x Hollywood. Doubt I'll ever rewatch it.

But then it did catch me at my most irritated with the tiresome, lazy, Hollywood reboot culture, so I probably went in with something of a negative mindset!

[full disclosure: I am not a fullblown trekkie/trekker]

one thing the new series does need is more lens flare? yes?


I agree it had a lot of hollywood rubbish. The timetravel fallback or cop-out was a big part of that rubbish. Of course, that is way for teh franchise to branch out (and give the finger to any semblance of continuity imho! LOL).

I think the new characters were done very well! I especially enjoyed watching the 'young' bones, spock, and Kirk (I do wish they would tone down Kirk's arrogance since he comes off like an arse sometimes, but maybe this initial OTP attitude was the intention).

I am looking forward to the new Star Trek with this cast.