Terrible Premise

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 2009)

Wonderful special effects, brilliant camera work, excellent special effects, believable actors to take the place of Shatner, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Sulu, Scott, and Uhura. Must see and enjoy but leave your brains at home. The story doesn't make sense. Let's just assume that I am a Romulan and knew the boo boo Dr. Spock is going to make. The solution is simple, get the red matter and kill the super nova 129 years before it happens. The retribution doesn't make sense. It won't stop the Romulan genocide. The logic is simple. I am a Romulan, ghastly found error Dr. Spock made and if I killed the planet Vulcan, and Spock (or Ambassador Spock) have not died, he's going to go about making the same boo boo 129 years from now killing the entire civilization of the Romulans. A reasonable alternative is just to kill Mr. Spock, without the need to kill the entire planet of Vulcan. So what happens if entire planet of Vulcan died and I guess the Romulans wouldn't be saved either without an advanced warning. Knowing the entire mess of the story and we wish to mend the stupid things Romulans made by killing off Kirk's father and the planet Vulcan an easy solution is for Spock to show how NCC 1701 can travel to time going back the time where his father was killed, just before so we get a Doppleganger, a twin NCC 1701, but the second ship, knowing Romulans will disable the code to protect the shields to kill the Romulan's waiting to kill the original star fleet. Thus once the Romulans are destroyed, the red matter confiscated from the ship is then used to destroy super Nova that suppose to explode 129 years later and the NCC 1701 thereby goes into the same period, without any event. The End. An uneasy Star Trek saga, a bad premise, an illogical story is not likely is going to sit well with IMDb top 250 movies for long. Since when will these writers get their head straight? 10 for movie, 1 for story line, 1 for premise and 1 for logic. My guess 3/10. Still a must see movie for Trekkies like me despite of a terrible movie's story and a nightmare for me. It's as unsettling as Captain Kirk's death when the bridge fell over him after leaving Nexus. This will be up there with bad story lines as same as other previous star trek. In any event, the Wrath of Khan is underrated and this, overrated, except for the special effects and the notion of time travel, but lacks the obvious logic. A much simpler story Ha Ha Ha is for Mr. Spock to go to planet Romulan and murder baby Nero, then kill off the exploding supernova. Oh hot pancake, the story isn't dramatic.