Roddenberry's legacy trampled

Rating: 3/10 (30 May 2009)

The opening was like OH MAN! and then it became soap opera pulp.
Me and my friend are both TOS fans and agreed that TFB failed. (He said "... it was OK. No drama, all effects and then BOOM!"
TFB:
Kirk was an *** throughout the whole movie
ORIGINAL: was clever, and likable
Spock was ... Spock "lite"
ORIGINAL: was clever, warm, lovable, and _real_
Bones was too tall/large for re-creating McCoy kept spouting the original's lines like he was spitting out popcorn
ORIGINAL: was well written, and lovable
Scotty was a clown
ORIGINAL: was clever, hard working, and charming
Uhura was petulant, always angry, and self-important
ORIGINAL: intelligent and sweet
Sulu was OK but "SAMURAI" DOES NOT EQUAL "fencing" (The writers clearly just copied and pasted these lines without thinking.)
ORIGINAL: mysterious and serious
Chekov was OK ... 17? gee, to whom are they pandering? HE DIDN'T EVEN GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL!!!
ORIGINAL: was cool and fun
Now I see that there are three "generations" of fans:
Generation 1: TOS - the best ever none even came close. This is pure, un-pc-ified, un-soap-opera'd - the pure undistilled stuff right out of the bottle
Generation 2: DS9 - the politically correct fandom - banal pale and droll.
Generation 3: TFB - the new breed of "scifi soap opera" fans (scifi has become little more than soap operas in space: Big Brother meets Outer Space)
I understand that TFB is a new timeline and that they wanted to break away from the original TOS and start new. But this movie was all glitter and gloss - like a woman's lipstick - superficial and empty. It has no heart.
The Bottom Line: No one will ever be able to recreate Roddenberry's masterpiece. The chemistry between the crew of TOS was palpable. (Regardless of their off-stage relations) They portrayed a crew who respected and enjoyed working around each other. At the same time they were all _the_best_of_Starfleet_!
So trying to re-create TOS is _impossible_. It would be like trying to re-create a Michelangelo or a VanGogh - once the original artist is gone all we have left to enjoy is what they left behind.
Since TFB was not created by a genius, and definitely not created by even an artist, but instead created by a studio then this new version, wrapped in the ST icon, has now become nothing but a franchise. (see "The Replacements")