This is Appalling

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2009)

While some of the casting and character development is surprisingly dead on (which explains my "2" rating), overall this movie was a poorly done bastardization of a wonderful story line the original television and movie franchise were. Frankly, it should be banned EVERYWHERE and the perpetrators of this tragedy should be publicly impaled as an abject lesson to any who wish to destroy an original story with idiotic and stupid interpretations. The only interpretation of a story which I found to be more revolting was Peter Jackson's hack job of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
This film completely disregarded nearly every episode of the original TV program, recreated events of the story-line in a manner that was , to say the least. lame and imbecilic the the "Nth" degree. They even had the gall fabricate a completely bogus and unbelievable love interest between two characters that never (nor would have) existed in the original series. Also, characters were included/introduced out of sequence in such an insipid and ham-handed manner as to defame Gene Roddenberry's originally creation completely. I only shudder to think what would be next on this "teams" agenda: Jesus have carnal knowledge of his mother?
This movie was, at best, appalling and I can only take solace in the fact I didn't shell out good money to go see it in the theater. I do, however, regret the rental fee for the video but sadly, I can't demand my money back from a computerized machine.