I want a show with this cast and Orci and Kurtzman as writers

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2009)

I was a fan of the Patrick Stewart era movies, and I came in to the theater highly skeptical. I was anticipating a formulaic action movie plot with mediocre acting by an inexperienced, young cast that probably only got the part because they looked like the original actors and could bring in some revenue from the young teenage girl demographic - Hannah Jonas 3-D status. I wasn't expecting much in terms of acting or plot.
Happy to say I was utterly and completely wrong (for the first time ever). The acting was on par with an episode of TNG. The plot was so much more than "we have to stop the bad guy before he destroys Earth! Oh no, we almost messed up, but wait we saved it at the last minute!" The twists made it so much more and tied it in with the original series nicely. Leonard Nimoy made up for the lack of a Patrick Stewart in this rendition as well.
The plot was very original and gave me something to think about on the walk to the car. That's when you know a movie is good. They stuck with the "Back to the Future" Theory of time travel which in my opinion is the only one that makes any sense.
The writers put some serious thought into this one. I am definitely going to check out their future projects.
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The two Spocks have different memories, so are they in a sense completely different people? The writers even got general relativity correct in the plot line which is almost unheard of in any sci-fi movie. Since Spock and Cpt. Nemoy were at different space points before entering the black hole, they should have different time dilation. In their case it was a 25 year difference - you could even work out the mass of the black hole with that information - I am very impressed by the writers here. Red matter is a term I don't believe exists in any previous sci-fi works (correct me if I'm wrong) which makes it a unique concept to this movie. Completely fictional, but still really cool. We will probably see it used again in many other sci-fi movies to come.
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That's what really set this new Star Trek apart from any of the previous movies in the franchise. It had new ideas, a new way of storytelling, and actors that pulled it off with a decent performance.
I admit, maybe I am giving it 10 stars instead of 8 stars because I had mediocre expectations for it. I also saw it on Thursday before the good reviews came out. I wasn't expecting it to be really good or really bad, so in a way my 10 star rating is unbiased in either direction. Any work that can successfully reinvent the legacy that is the original Star Trek (We have a space shuttle named after the Enterprise) deserves a 10 out of 10.