Silly, Lazy Writing...

Rating: 1/10 (8 April 2010)

I love Star Trek - in all incarnations - so I wanted to like the big screen rebirth/reboot of the intricate/inspirational Trek universe.
We were disappointed, if not downright offended. Gone was sound science, poignant philosophical peccadilloes, rich tapestry of space and species -- replaced, sadly by empty over-produced popcorny fluff + filler. A tangle of smoke, mirrors, caricatures, hollow dialogue, and lots o'testosterone.
As a silly space chase action movie it barely works -- it's visually stimulating (but shaky/saturated) -- yet as an addition to the catalog of quality Trek - it's sorely lacking, sacrilegious, + intellectually insulting. They just hijacked the name, sold out + slapped a vacuous veneer on a formerly venerable canon.
Stupid Plot 'Points' to snap your suspension o' disbelief:
1. Kirk is a dickish hick who wrecks antique cars for no apparent reason (parental spite?) - also never wanted to join Star Fleet until 2am the night before, after a drunken brawl + pep talk from a stranger. So he stays up all night- plastered, + reports 6 hours later, bloody, for a 4 year commitment. In the middle of getting suspended for cheating, suddenly a crisis breaks out + they close court and race to space. Hours later, cadet Kirk is first officer of the fleet flagship.
2. Spock, far from being stoic + logical -- hooks up with his students, makes out w/crew in plain sight, fights, + commits cardinal sin of tampering w/the temporal time-line many times over.
3. Spock kicks Kirk off a moving ship mid-crisis - landing on some unknown planet, where he suddenly has snow gear, can breathe -- AND, get this, runs haplessly into a random cave which just so happens to house future Spock.
4. Luckily, 12km away from magic cave lives Scotty -- who, just hours later -- is suddenly running all of Engineering on an Enterprise he'd never been on before.
This is but a taste of the ridiculous-ness. It goes on + on, but I'll end here by saying spare your sanity + go watch any other Trek besides this mess...