A well paced action adventure, but not a great Star Trek movie

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2010)

I have mixed feelings about this movie. As a movie it is above average, a well paced action adventure with enough comic relief thrown in to break up the tension. As a Star Trek saga, however, it leaves a lot to be desired. I have the distinct impression that the director J.J. Abrams would much prefer to make a Star Wars movie.
Now I like Star Wars, with it fanciful stories and supernatural theme; however, Star Trek is more the art of the possible with normal humans struggling in an alien universe. Roddenberry envisioned an idealistic society that existed on a well defined technological base. He closely guarded that vision and would not allow the established technological principals to be violated.
Abrams was bound by no such vision. It is my impression that he purposefully strived to remake Star Trek into a variant of Star Wars. Gene Roddenberry would have hated Abrams movie.
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