ADD version of Star Trek -- Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2009)

As a fan of the original series and several of the movies, I had heard people's favorable comments about this movie and expected a lot more.
This movie is fast-paced for today's dumb-downed Star Wars generation of attention deficit disorder movie-goers. What I have the biggest problem with is the inconsistency and lack of commitment to the Star Trek background, a complete lack of continuity with the established sub-creation maintained through the series and previous movies.
As just a few examples: In the real Star Trek, Chekov was 12 years younger than Kirk, and would have been a child when Kirk had just finished cadet school. Never mind that the Chekov here was an outright mockery and parody with a stupid accent far worse than the original.
In the previous mention of the Kobayashi Maru test (Star Trek II), all that was said was that Kirk got a commendation for original thinking; he did NOT get an academic suspension.
This movie made a mockery of the serious, military analogy to Star Fleet service. Kirk here is a jerk, a juvenile delinquent who gets on the Enterprise as a stowaway, then gets promoted up to Captain through outrageous antics that make Wesley Crusher's "saving the ship" plots look tame. We are told that this story is an alternate timeline due to what Spock did in the future, but the timeline is never corrected. Never mind that the "true" Kirk had served on other ships between cadet school and the Enterprise, such as on the USS Farragut as a lieutenant 11 years before being captain. Never mind that the "true" Kirk had behaved himself properly, as enough of a model student that he had never "beat the tar out of Finnegan" for pranks done by the upper-classman to the younger Kirk; this Kirk is constantly acting up and causing trouble throughout his time at the academy. All of the other characterizations are likewise mockeries and parodies of the established series.
Star Fleet didn't even know about the Romulans, or what they looked like and their similarity to Vulcans, until half-way through Season 1; here, a story supposedly years before that event, the background of Romulans is already known.
The basic plot of a vengeful character going around destroying complete planets with such ease puts this in the same category as Star Wars and comic book fiction -- but it loses all believability within the Star Trek realm, which at least had stories with more restrained and somewhat more believable plots.