Fascinating but ILLOGICAL - and I still bought the DVD

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2009)

I must say that I am a trekker, seen all the movies, series (more than once) but never attended any conventions; I guess I'm a 'closet trekker'.
I've read lots of the reviews here, both the good and the bad (mostly the bad), and I'm kind of stuck in the middle with my opinion.
Maybe it's my yearning to be young again, but I really did like the opening scenes, how Kirk came to be, and the few scenes after that when Kirk and Spock was a child and them attending the academy. I think Pine did a fine job as Kirk, a likable character, and Quinto did look like Spock, at some angles. And finally it was "fun" to watch.
That said, I have to stay loyal to my trekker comrades with their comments. There was just something missing. If the idea was to start from scratch, then why not introduce a new villain (and I mean a new species). If there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and 1 trillion galaxies, surely a new life-form villain, with likable characteristics, would have been a LOGICAL and FASCINATING (sorry, had to add that) concept to watch.
I too agree that time-travel was a cheap way to RESET the whole universe. I just hope that they don't choose THE BORG as the next sequel.