Absolutely fantastic

Rating: 10/10 (12 May 2009)

I'm almost 40 years old and I've seen most of Star Trek lots and lots of times, I grew up with reruns of the classic series and I watched Star Trek die with Star Trek: Nemesis, I thought.
When I saw the first teaser for the new film with the Enterprise being built, I had goose bumps. Now I've been to the cinema twice to see Star Trek and it's better than I thought. Much much better.
Some points have been criticised by fellow fans, even though they of all people should know better:

non-canon alternate timeline.

Come on,everybody watching Star Trek knows that it is full of alternate timelines and changes. From TOS to TNG, from "The Voyage home" to Voyager. Voyager has been saved by Ensign Kim 15 years after everybody died by sending a signal back in time to Seven of Nine...

Spock wouldn't have changed the timeline like he did, when helping Kirk and talking to young Spock.

He did not change the timeline, Nero did the moment he attacked the USS Kelvin. Spock tried to repair what was left, e.g. getting Kirk on the captain's seat and Spock to be his first officer, so they could become friends. This friendship and their work together was essential in the old timeline, so old Spock tried to get them back on track.

Spock and Uhura.

Even in the original timeline, Uhura tried to get close to Spock in TOS,so they could have known each other from Starfleet Acedemy. In the original timeline, Uhura arrived on the Enterprise when Kirk became Captain. Spock had been on the Enterprise quite some time by then, so Spock and Uhura have not been together anymore. In fact, in the alternate timeline, Uhura and Kirk are on the Enterprise 6 (!) years earlier than in the original timeline. In those six years, the "orignal Spock" could have managed to get rid of his emotions for Uhura.

Crew is too young.

See my point before. The crew of the alternate timeline is together six years before they were in the original timeline.
Those six years would have made all crew members more mature, but the events Nero caused brought them together much earlier. Which also means, there are six empty years to fill with new movies before anything from TOS could actually happen - if it still could, after all the changes in the timeline.
Star Trek is and always will be - entertainment and a vision. The new movie is both, it's first class 21st century entertainment and a different vision of Gene Roddenberry's idea. If you are a hardcore Trekker, you should remember IDIC ;) Now they can bring back Shatner as old Kirk in the alternate timeline. That should cheer some people up.