Great Star Trek movie for today's audience

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2009)

I am a devoted Star Trek Fan since I was like 8 years old. Which is now about 25 years ago. Back then I watched the reruns every summer when I was out of school.
The were the movies.. I was still a bit young.
About the TV Shows: Then at 14 I discovered "Star Trek:TNG". I live in Austria and therefor everything on TV is in German. But I had one Satellite channel, SKY 1, back then which broadcast their stuff in English.. Well, so I began watching TNG every day at 9pm.. My English wasn't that great in the beginning but with Star Trek that improved rapidly. Because the Star Trek English is always very clear and understandable. From that grew my love for movies in their original Language. I haven't seen a film dubbed in German for about 15 years now and I am damn proud of that. Well, so I watched TNG. Began collecting the VHS Tapes. 2 Episodes for $35.. I owned (well Still do) all episodes of TNG, DS9 and Voyager on VHS.. You can imagine how much I spent for that. Then came the show "Enterprise" which I liked a great deal.. I was dead before it's time sadly..
As for the movies: I never saw the first one as a child or don't remember it. The second one, which is still my favorite I saw many times. The third one was okay but unnecassary.. 4.) Good fun 5.) WTF? 6.) Great reuinion and farewell of the original crew.. Excellent movie 7.) It was an OK movie but felt more like an expensive two parter of the Show.. Too many errors.. Like when Picard sits in his room and Riker enters through the Door that connects his room to the bridge and when Riker enters it's totally dark behind him.. Aside from such minor stuff I enjoyed that movie.. 8.) Man, Frakes made an awesome movie. This one is my 2nd favorite in the series.. It's just great 9.) Did they force Frakes with a Gun to make that movie? 10.) Well, OK movie but for today's audience a little too boring
And now the new movie:
After having seen the trailer I was going in with immense expectations. And they were surpassed. It was such a great movie. It was one of the very few Prequels that actually worked. It explained most things in a logical fashion.. Not like they did in Star Wars where the Force becomes some small organisms that live inside you instead of that spiritual thing we all adored. J.J. really did what had to be done to bring Star Trek across to todays audience. The only thing he might have overdone is that the story and therefor everything that happens hinges to much on improbable coincidences. A little like his show "Lost".. But aside from that we get some memorable characters.. Especially Karl Urban as "Bones" really captured DeKelly's Essence..
Also like some people claim according to a bunch of sources this isn't an alternate reality. This is how it always was and always will be. Although Chekov actually comes on board when the Ship is on it's mission for a already a year (See beginning of Season 2 of TOS)
But if you are a SCI-FI Fan or an old Trekkie like me, go and watch the movie!
10/10