Great!

Rating: 9/10 (11 May 2009)

This was a great movie experience. Kept the characters and their relationships true to the source material, while breaking the cerebral mold that Star Trek had gotten into. Kudos to Abrams and the writers Orci & Kurtzman. Genre R. might just have been very proud of what his "wagon train to the stars" had evolved into in the hands of the new directing/writing team. Negative criticism by Trek "fundementalists" should be mostly ignored in my opinion. Star Trek has re-invented itself by ingeniously using a legitimate storytelling tool that goes back to the original Sixties series, namely time travel. The new creators have flung off the weighty shackles of previous Trek canon and re-invented itself using one of the main story tenants in that canon. Avid fans need not object, but boldly go where no Trek fan has gone before!