What an utter piece of cr...

Rating: 4/10 (25 September 2012)

This is my first review, and although it may seem spiteful, I believe it is well justified!
Warning! Major spoilers ahead.
Well, that was a very good movie for people who are dazzled with sounds and lights- ah, and the brain-dead. But for people who think, that movie was insulting! Lets forget it pays no respect to the original series or its spirit, nor for the details of the original timeline' s character lives. Lets also ignore it presents Kirk like a promiscuous, snorty, arrogant "rebel without a cause" guy (which is SO old)! (Arguably there are relevances with the original C. Kirk, but the new version doesn't have his insight or gentleness, and is a lot more superficial). So lets concentrate on everything else.
I firmly believe that, although not enough by itself, nothing can substitute a good storyline- neither acting, nor special effects, not flashy characters. So lets go for the major holes:
1. Major spaceships traveling to past through black holes. Anyone heard of tidal waves who would tear the ship apart?
2. Black holes are all about mass. Super dense mass. You can't make a black hole out of ANY kind of liquid- substanced red matter just by exposing it to thin air (or thin Universe vacuum!). And even if you could, it would take a black hole the mass of Earth (which would have approx 2cm event horizon) weeks to consume a planet like Earth, not minutes!! And if you want to use THAT as a weapon, you just throw it to the surface- the planet's gravity would absorb it to the core! You don't need a super drill at all!
3.Super novas threaten their immediately nearby neighborhood, not the Galaxy (nor even hypernovas!), unless they emit a gamma-ray burst, and then only the star systems located in the direction of the gamma-ray cone. And of course they don't destroy planets outside their solar system! Anyway, where did that blast took place anyway? If it did outside the Romulan system, races that move faster than light would have all the time to take any action necessary (the blast waves can only travel so fast..). If it was the Romulan star that exploded, well, a race with warp capabilities should have read the signs in their sun like, ehm.. a few million years ago! So, totally unrealistic!
4. Besides all these major holes, its the storyline I detested the most. The entire Vulcan planet, home of the most advanced race in Star Trek Universe, and 6 billion Vulcans were gone? How can you like anything with such depressive plot in it? Would we like the movie if Kirk, Spock and the whole Enterprise were gone? No? OK, but the demise of an entire planet (the Vulcans no-less) simply pass by? (unless they go back in time in another movie and fix that)! Total loss...
There were so many other things that didn't make sense in this movie. There was no reasonable rank development for the main characters. Kirk jumps from cadet to captain and all the other crew members reach their final ranks in Enterprise from cadets in the blink of an eye? A huge spaceship severely threatens major planets (Vulcan, Earth) and there are NO spaceships in reserve to stop it at all? In any planet? AND NOT AT ALL AIRFORCE OR GROUND-KEEPING FORCES? Was there any background to Niro at all? And didn't the Vulcan be the original homeworld of the Romulans? So he essentially destroyed his initial homeworld? And what happened to the... thousands of the crew that a ship so big as the Romulan should have? And what was that completely silly story between Spock and Uhura?? How did that relate to any of the original character's characters? And what relation existed between the flamboyant new Uhura and the sweet girl that sang ballads in TOS?
All in all, that movie was a rip- off for money, designed to capitalize on the Star Trek franchise but only got at superficial level. It massively insults our intelligence, both in terms of plot and of science and common sense. They forgotten there is a SCIENCE in science fiction- otherwise its simply fairy tale. This movie is addressed only to people who don't think- and the sad part is that they are so many, that this became an instant hit! Now, the old series often neglected scientific facts as well- its why I never became a huge fun, but at least it had cool story lines and excellent character development. None of these redeeming features are present here, and this is 2010's, not the sixty's- the world has moved since then. But we get the science fiction we deserve.
I so hope they will do something within the Babylon 5 Universe, anything! We need this!
Four/10 stars in respect to the decent efforts of all the actors, the tight plot (with all its flaws), very nice special effects, and overall a good adventure who keeps the interest going. Ah, and the presence of Leonard Nimoy- although he shouldn't have endorsed that movie! However, if they make a series out of this, I won't be watching. I would prefer to see the TOS instead.