the worst addition to star trek ever

Rating: 1/10 (15 May 2013)

I really wanted to enjoy this film, but there simply wasn't enough good to make up for the flaws. First, Abrams has clearly never seen any Star Trek movie or series. The disrespect to the original series is just astonishing. Second, the film completely leaves science out which is a departure from the original series and leaves this feeling like a fantasy movie vs a well made science fiction piece.
Finally, the story line makes no sense and if you've watch star trek before you'll be completely confused. Romulan's now have mining ships....ships that don't even really need weapons with super powered weapons the ability to come out of black holes and time travel? Of course after some research this is all explained in a comic book where they took some Borg technology, but this is never mentioned. Instead the viewer is left completely baffled and lost trying to connect the 40+ years of history they know from the series into this 2 hour train wreck.
The final verdict is this. If you have ZERO Star Trek knowledge this film is a solid C. The problem is if you've watched any Star Trek nothing about this movie looks, feels, or sounds like Star Trek. They've turned a show about using critical thinking and diplomatic methods to solve problems into an action film and couldn't even make the action fit closely enough in the universe to make it OK because it is a remake. Anyone with any love of Star Trek will need about 20 shots and a strong desire to love this film or a great ability to turn off their brain to tolerate this mess. Sadly this director was not only paid for this, but they let him make a sequel.