Bad "popularist" rubbish for the new uninformed masses. *spoilers*

Rating: 4/10 (3 March 2011)

This film was so obviously written for the folks who have never seen good scifi and are more entertained by *bang* *bang* *whizz* *pop* special effects and relatively good action than for a good star trek story.
Now I know all trek films have their issues and plot wholes (*cough NEMESIS...) but this one really takes it to new levels of "lets treat the audience like idiots and throw eye ball popcorn at them" and what's worse is most people seem to have fallen for it, which frankly makes me despair.
My issues: (and yes I know some are VERY geeky, but Im a huge fan of well written SciFi and I don't like being treated like an idiot) 1) Uhura orders a cardassian drink at the bar. Yet the cardassians were not discovered until Piccards day... (anyone remember the references in TNG to a bad first contact situation resulting in a 12 year war?!) 2)Nero's ship... a "mining vessel", just happens to be the size of a bloody borg cube and armed to the teeth...
3) Nero hung around that area of space for a couple of decades waiting for spock? (they cut out a 20 minute sequence of the film where his ship and crew were captured by the Klingons... this would have explained allot so why cut it?) 4) The Romulan Star Empire, a hugely powerful race, that has harnessed the power of miniature black wholes to power their MILE long ships, DIDN'T know roughly when their own sun would explode!!? We know now "roughly" when ours will go pop and we are comparatively cave men.
5) the ONLY person in the entire empire, out of all of its scientists, that could help them, was one crusty old vulcan.
6) Red Matter... a substance so powerful, that a single drop in a planets core, can collapse an entire world in on itself in a matter of minutes. So they give Spock enough of it to destroy a small galaxy, on a barely armed ship.
7) When Vulcan gets attacked, they clearly state the fleet is away dealing with another issue... THE ENTIRE FLEET. HUNDREDS OF SHIPS, ALL OF THEM?!?!? are too busy and too far away to come to the aide of the second most important planet in the federation, leaving ONLY a few hundred snot nosed cadets, a hand full of ships they were all training on, and, for some reason, the flag ship.
8) Vulcan gone. So they blew it up, great for action and drama, but a complete *beep* of star trek, without the vulcan science academy, the federation wont develop half the technologies employed in TNG, Voyager, DS9. The borg would have slaughtered them for a start.
9) The new bridge... IKEA ? 10) The new warp effect... You can tell Abrams is a STAR WARS nut.
11) The new ship and its bulbous nacelles... *sigh* 12) Lt Uhura... or Lt Awhore? lets water down a role that played a vital part of the black rights movement in the united states during the 60's. Nichelle Nichols was going to leave the show at one point due to her never having any decent lines. Martin Luthor King Turned up, on her doorstep! and convinced her to stay in the show as she was a symbol to black people everywhere during that time.
It also featured the first interracial kiss in US TV history.
Now though, she's just eye candy with loose knickers.
13) The engine room... someone went out to home depot, and bought a few hundred feet of air conditioning ducting and painted it orange.
14)Crew Conduct. All previous treks, no matter the film, no matter the series, all understood that, in principle, Starfleet is a Military organisation. It has its procedures, its respect, its edge.
This lot are running around like school girls at a bake sale.
There are many more problems with it, but I could go on, and on, and on.
Things I liked: I liked Chris Pine's Shatner, and Zachary Quinto's Spock. Though I find the film totally flawed, their performances deserve great credit and they had obviously paid great care and attention to the mannerisms of their former actors, shatner and nimoy.Eric Bana also did his role proud.
But over all. This film killed 40 years of History for me, all for the sake of a "fresh" and "dumbed down" audience, in pursuit of the ever wanted $$$.