All that time-space continuum jive got to me, Spock meet Spock

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2009)

I went into this with an open-mind and as a non-Trekkie, that wasn't hard to do. I had heard the hype and figured, well, why not, I liked the original TV series and this one seems to be getting good reviews, so I'll pay the big bucks for a ticket and get the soda and popcorn, too. It was alright, I guess, but it kinda reminded me of that third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where when something goes awry, don't worry about it because, bingo, the next scene will be a cheesy solution. Kirk gets exiled to the frozen tundra? No worries, Spock lives in the nearest cave--oh, I should say the original Spock lives there, not the young Spock at the wheel of the Enterprise who had just kicked Kirk off the ship. And it gets so much worse than that, script-wise. And I kinda empathized with ol' Nero and his misunderstanding of the cause of the destruction of his planet. All in all, it had a whole lotta potential, the re-boot deal, but it just kinda sailed over the cliff like that Corvette in the opening.