Time continuum plot ruins it

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2009)

Star Trek was an exciting and enjoyable reviving of the franchise. However, why do we have to go and re-write the back story in order to make it interesting? Are we now to assume that all of the "Future" (i.e. previous) Star Trek episodes and movies are irrelevant because (spoilers) Vulcan is no longer there, Amanda is no longer there (end spoilers), thereby omitting many of the more enjoyable episodes of both the television and movie series which have yet to occur from the perspective of this film and now never will because of it? It would be nice to see if in future Star Trek films the writers do not resort to time travel, alternative time-lines, rewriting history, re-writing back stories in order to create and solve every problem that pops up for the crew of the Enterprise.
Enjoy it for what it is - fun film, great cast. The plot could have been better, where we would have gotten to know familiar characters in their earlier years, without rewriting their history as a part of the plot.