This is not Star Trek

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2009)

(To start off with, this is a repost, and I suppose that there are spoilers enclosed (although why to mention that now after the movie has been out for many months is beyond me). And, yes, if I do mention what others have said, it is only to make my points.) I am afraid that the misgivings about this film that I had when I first heard and saw various pictures from the production were justified.
How to start? When the film first started, I was a little perplexed, and wondered what I was watching. A starship destroyed. Been done before. So what. When it came to the introduction of the main characters, I thought that those were well done and to the point. However, I thought that the plot of the story was dull and uninteresting.
Then there was the interiors of the Enterprise itself. That was the engine room? I half expected Gene Hackman guiding the passengers from the Posiedon Adventure and telling them "Just one more deck up." I have to agree with others on this board when they said that it looked more like a oil refinery, submarine, or (as mentioned through the reference of the Posiedon Adventure (made by myself) the bowels of a cruise ship like the QE2. The bridge was only the topping on the cake for this dislike.
Now that I think of it, some of the behavior of the crew itself was not to what I had known of them. Chekov leaving the bridge to operate the transporter? Since when did he know how to operate that? In the Star Trek I know, he would have been reprimanded for leaving his post. Then there was the scenes between Uhura and Spock. A romance? Ridiculous, especially since Spock had always thrived to never have emotions displayed. Then, if all of that was not bad enough, they said it was an "alternate universe".
You know, for years I watched Star Trek because of the message that it had to convey: a better life for humanity. Instead, what do we have? A film that was only tooled for the younger set by using overrated effects. The message is gone. If you like this film, then more power to you, but you will be left out because of Abrams not employing Roddenberry's message.