Surely the best of times ?

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2009)

Well i think we've all pretty much seen it now and i say well done, thats just me talking, i know some people feel the departure in tone is too much, "the trekkie's canna take it", sorry !
I think that its taken a franchise which has been a 3 legged dog since Next Gen finished (excluding some specf DS9 eps) and made it into something which hopefully will carry Star Trek on for new generations (not a pun). The recent series have just run Star Trek into an ever narrower bottle neck of what Trek can or cant be and this has snatched it back from that rut and put it back in the mainstream, where popular culture is supposed to be.
A couple of things about it did go CLUNK, primarily Spock and Uhura, but i shook that off, if its going to live on, Star Trek needed a big slap across the chops and this was it. The cast was great, particularly MR Quinto, Spock lives and then some, the script was light and funny and the pace was invigorating.
JJ Abrams has fulfilled his obligation, he has brought Trek back like Lazarus, now don't let the standards slip for the next one fellas !