If this was a spoof....

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2009)

...and a 150,000,000 dollar spoof (!) maybe this could be called entertainment, but it only succeeds in a surface reference to the original cast and leaves the audience waiting for something interesting to happen.
Instead, we get one of the least imaginative "back stories" and an even lamer telling of those stories that have ever been mounted for a major motion picture.
The cast is terrific, but they have nothing to do but try to hit a mark that some of the original actors did. Poor Leonard Nimoy is hauled out to mumble something or other about parallel universes which brings confusion to stupidity.
The art direction and special effects are above average, but only that. They aren't used to awe or frighten; they're used as filler.
Hopefully, someone will use this cast for something closer to what the original series did: Bring something thoughtful and interesting to consider, and have a clever way of telling that story. This wasn't that...by 150,000,000 whatever's...this wasn't that.