This is your grand father's Star Trek with Abrams' action.

Rating: 8/10 (9 May 2009)

What is Star Trek? It is an extremely puzzling question. The creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's visions of Star Trek are: morality play, adventure/mystery (to boldly go where no one has gone before). When Gene died, Rick Berman (executive producer) took over. His vision of Star Trek included many recycled clichés from previous ST episodes, the famous technobabbles, the aliens of the week, the weekly Phaser battles in the alley and the contrived writing. The die-hard fans, Trekkies, have different vision of Star Trek. Trekkies view Star Trek as a fictional universe. They value the custom design, the alien design, and the existed canon as the cores of Star Trek.
The movie Star Trek is marketed as "Not your father's Star Trek". Its aim is to attract the casual movie fans and the hardcore fans.
*Spoilers Alert*
In the movie, a Romulan villain, Nero, time traveled by accident to young James T. Kirk's era hoping to revenge against the Federation.
*Spoilers End*
The movie managed to mix stunning space battles with a lot of clichés from the old Star Trek. No doubt that casual movie viewers who don't understand Trek will be heart boiled because of the cinematic choreography and the visual excellence. Majority of Star Trek fans will love the funny clichés. The writing staff of the movie managed to use the time paradox to circumvent the canonical paradox created due to REBOOTING the franchise. This move will appease the die hard Trekkies. They too will be content. In every way, JJ Abrams and his crews has managed to accomplish the impossible, to satisfy every viewer group. Still, one question still lingers after watching this masterpiece.
Is this movie a Star Trek by using the original definition from Gene Roddenberry?
The clear answer is no. The movie does not involve with morality, mystery and adventure. Without incorporating these concepts, this movie lacks the SOUL of Star Trek. It is but a shell of itself.
Ironically, the movie did not scrap away the old Star Trek like Paramount promised. It is full of background clichés and stories base on the previous Star Trek movies and shows. It is still your grandfather's Star Trek.