did the writers ever actually watch the original Star Trek?

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2012)

I can't say it was a bad movie, for what it is, in fact, it was very put together very well, and the actors did a great job reproducing the original characters...
My problem with this movie is more towards the sets and writing of the storyline itself...
First off, if all events of Star Trek are the same up to the point where Nemo goes back in time and encounters Kirk's Father, than how could the starship Kirk's father was on be more advanced than ships in Star Trek TNG? How Could The Character Pavel Chekov be younger than in the same time period in the original timeline? Secondly.. Granted Spock was thrown back in time and was a part of creating the alternative timeline.. not the first time this has happened now is it? What caused Spock to finally give up on returning to his own time, or repairing the damage before the time line was altered? How will all this effect other story lines from the original Star Trek timeline, such as Data's head being left in 1897, Khan being frozen in 1999? Voyager 6 (VGER) heading to earth to find it's creator (which shouldn't have changed)? and of course, lets not forget there's a probe out there heading for earth to figure out why it lost contact with humped back whales! All of these started out before the timeline change, and apparently, slipped the minds of the writers and producers, causing me personally to only half like this Star Trek reboot.
Aside from that, the photography and acting was spot on, and the sound effects certainly surpass anything previously used in the Star Trek franchise. I do hope the writers of the future movies can come up with some reasoning for all I have pointed out, as the previous writers have always been rather good at doing.