A travesty.

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2009)

I was greatly disappointed with the new Star Trek movie. It was a horrible movie. I found that the The Movie would have better off not been made, rather than have this revisionist crap. I would have rather seen a Trek movie set after previous installments rather than backtracking to previous time periods, which is bound to pollute the continuity of the trek story line. Creating a parallel trek universe as this one did is an equal travesty. I think what really has upset me is that this new movie goes against what Trek was supposed to be, an optimistic and bright view of the future where our problems can be solved. Sure, there were villains in the true Star Trek, But in the end, the good guys were victorious, planets and peoples were saved. A handful of people may have died but not billions. This new Trek is a depressing turn into something that Trek was not meant to be, a dark, pessimistic view of wars and failures, massive killing and deaths of billions of people, rather than a vision of Gene Roddenberry of a generally happy, peaceful, optimistic future. It is completely different than the positive, bright, optimistic view of the future of the the last great trek installments: Original Series, 1980s-early 90s movies, and STNG(R.I.P) . Destroying planets just does not belong in Trek, which is an optimistic and positive view of the future rather than a Star Wars-esquire future of bleak wars and billions being killed. Basically what Abrams has done is create a new series and has thrown out everything Trek was supposed to be, trying to turn it into Star Wars, mainly to exploit the Trek universe to enrich themselves. If they really wanted to create a new series universe, why not just create a new one rather than to pollute Star Trek universe with this crap. Gene Roddenberry is rolling in his grave.