Fun but filled with plot holes...

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2009)

This film started off as being very entertaining and it was interesting to see and learn about the early days of James Kirk, Spock, Sulu and all the rest of the old Enterprise crew. The special effects were top notch and I must say that Zachary Quinto really looks like a young Leonard Nimoy. But with that being said from someone who watched the old Star Trek series and knows all about the characters backgrounds this film is filled with a ton of plot holes. For example, Spocks mother was never killed and there are several old episodes in which she is part of the story and if you even watch Star Trek The Voyage Home she is alive and well. Also the planet Vulcan in the old series was always there and was never destroyed and the Vulcans were never an endangered people. Pavel Chekov was not part of the Enterprise crew till the second season of the series and yet he comes in during the time of Captian Pike. And speaking of Captian Pike he did not leave the Enterprise crew as an Admiral but rather was burned badly and was unable to speak or walk ever again. Why the filmmakers would take these types of liberties with the facts is beyond me. Why not just show how they all became part of the crew and have just a simple but entering classic Star Trek story? I know it is just a movie but it does a bit of a disservice to the old series with these crazy contradictions. And what is with the writers of Star Trek and time Travel? It is getting old. What I would have wanted to see is someone in there latter years like Leonard Nimoy as an elder Spock for example being that he is in this film to tell the story to a group of just graduating cadets about the Early days of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew. You know kind of a way to inspire them. Star Trek has lost its gas and it is time to put it to rest....