Great fun, staggering disregard for logic.

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2010)

A fun, action packed film with excellent re-imagined characters, great visuals and a very ST sense of humour :-) Sadly it's let down by staggering disregard/ignorance for basic logic and science - even ST universe science.
A "supernova that threatens the galaxy"? GALAXY??? Is there a giant star millions of times bigger than the largest know star out there? If so, one wonders why the rest of the galaxy wasn't pulled inside it by it's massive gravity well long ago...
And oh how convenient there's a planet of ANOTHER star system, not Vulcan's, that future Spock can watch Vulcan's destruction from... with the unaided eye. Sorry, did the Universe suddenly shrink? First a super massive supernova that threatens the galaxy, now the galaxy is so tightly compacted you can see one planet from another planet circling a totally different star? I could go on, but you get the point. The director was either asleep in science class... all 12 years worth of lessons it would seem. Or he has no respect for the intelligence of ST fans, let alone the average viewer. Don't get me wrong - I suspend belief for 'impossible' ST technologies like the transporter all the time. I've been happily doing so since original ST. In fact a certain ability to suspend belief is required to enjoy almost every science fiction movie or TV series (let's face it - perfect quiet in outer space scenes are not real exciting for the viewer, etc, etc). But the new ST movie takes this too far. My ability to enjoy it was severely and all too frequently compromised by the utter absurdities taking place on screen. What a damn shame. Cause the acting was absolutely first rate IMO.
Edit: I have since been informed that canon has been retroactively altered to place Delta Vega (Delta means fourth, so 'Fourth planet of the Vega system')... inside the Vulcan system. Okay... However one wonders why the hell it's still called Delta Vega then... That fits no known naming convention for planets without a proper name.
Oh, and I watched the movie again last night to see if it still felt as dumb as the first time. I was worried my review above might've been unnecessarily harsh. Sadly I was right the first time - ST 2009 is mind-blowingly dumb :-(