It was an average film I thought, I always think these reinventions are lazy writing people want to be able to hire freelance writers and don’t want to have to say to them “oh by the way, read the star trek/bond bible, its 10 million words long by the way”. Much easier to basically start again, it looks very much like Terminator Salvation has gone the same way.

I agree that this is one of most entertaining films to come out so far this year. Abrams (lens flares, choice of composer aside) did a nice job of making the film accessible to non-trekkies as well as appeasing fans. Yeah, they take a number of liberties but the script explains that away with a classic sci-fi realization (alternate reality). This could have been one heck of a train wreck but it’s not. Kudos, Mr. Abrams.