[Hammock Parties]

I'm glad that you're just thrilled with bubblegum Star Trek, but let's not elevate it to the status of the originals, OK? Use your brain. Abrams insulted the intelligence of longtime Trek fans with this pap smear of a movie.

Another Trek fan sums up my feelings:

Exactly my thoughts too. I was enjoying the first half -

Spoiler!

Section 31, Klingons, Noel Clarke, lots of analysis of the Prime Directive, a mysterious superhuman stranger who may be Khan but probably isn't - then Cumberbatch reveals himself to be playing a villain made immortal in Trek lore by someone else and

the homages quickly became proto-plagiarism. It became an insult to genuine Trekkies and to Messrs. Meyer, Shatner, Nimoy, etc who put so much hard work and passion into a 30 year old film that really saved the franchise a long time ago.

What's most frustrating is why Abrams feels the need to curb his creativity and rip off other people's work so often! He's clearly a very talented film-maker. If he's going to keep making "new and fresh" Trek films then I want to see something "new and fresh" in them.

Two other peculiarities. One, why did Carol Marcus have a (dodgy) English accent when her father had a North American one? And two, why did Kronos look like Earth in the final Matrix movie??

I'd give the movie a 7 out of 10 due largely to the performances of the cast who were all excellent. Abrams and his scriptwriters should be ashamed of themselves though. I hope they don't have the cheek to call themselves 'artists'.