Patronizing and obviously filmed by someone who doesn't care about the future of Trek

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2009)

Poorly directed and poorly filmed space adventure that could have been called anything besides "Star Trek". The characters, as written, felt more like the knock-off's you see in B-movie attempts most often seen on SyFy channel. I think JJAbrams had a few scenes in his head that he thought would, "Look SOOOO cool!!!" and did all he could make a movie around them. Enterprise in a corn field, man shooting through water tubes in the brewery, er I mean, engine room, red shirt's getting killed needlessly, etc.
Abrams I think saw more "Saturday Night Live" like sketch comedies than he did episodes.
I think if the movie had been made by any other director, and one with a less active hype machine, this movie would have been panned and dismissed as the poor execution that it was.