Redoing the Mythos...

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2015)

An orphaned James T Kirk joins the Star Fleet Academy, but is he mature enough to help out the Federation?
If you ever watched the Original Series, this is barely it. They call it a Reboot. But more to the point, it is a re-write that tweaks the Star Trek Mythos in order to get it in line with the later serials such as Generations and DS9. The first scene is aboard a generations ship, which - if all you had watched is the Original Series - should not have existed.
It also re-imagines the characters of the Original Series to make them...idk...more salable. Kirk was a problem child. Spock has a chip on his shoulder. Bones joined the Federation to get away from a messy divorce. Uhuru is an independent lady who guards her privacy.
If this is to save the franchise, fine. It has some entertaining moments, but none of the wonder or mystery that that went into the show. It also has none of the details to science or even military procedure that the any of the other shows took seriously.
What it does have is some really good production design, and some interesting plot twists.