Called Star Trek, looks like Star Trek, but it isn't Star Trek

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2009)

I am a Star Trek fan - not a convention going type - but someone who loves the films and TV series. I was REALLY looking forward to this film, but I feel like I have been Cheated.
What J J Abrahms, someone whose work I much admire, has done is to create a plot which allows him to discard 40 years of Star Trek history and write his own version. This film contains a plot where a Romulan comes back in time, to the day of Kirk's birth and changes history, so now Abrahms can do what he likes and this film gives him carte blanche to do so.
So throughout the film we are treated to events which are completely at odds with a whole heap of history built up in the films, so that by the end you are left feeling that all of the things you loved about Star Trek have been discarded as not important.
I enjoyed the film in parts, the plot was a bit odd, but the acting and special effects were good. Simple problem I had was that it was called Star Trek, it kind of looked like Star Trek, but it wasn't Star Trek.
This was supposed to be a reboot, instead it was a complete rewrite of history.