Shut it Trekkies

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2009)

Well well well. I see it didn't take long for the Bat'leth's to come out for this! This is Sci Fi my friends with the emphasis on fiction.
JJ Abrams has taken the franchise and giving it a total shot in the arm. Nero's appearance has changed everything only if you subscribe to the linear time flow view. Now you can have the original Trek and these bright new things and a new future.
These are early Federation ships, not the space hotels of NextGen or Voyager. You rarely saw the Engine room in the Original TV series but when you did it was portrayed as cavernous and industrial. Not an office with a big glowing tube of anti-matter as in NextGen. Check out Star Trek 1 (with Vger if you recall) for a similar view of Engineering.
This is a great film, Trekkies and non-Trekkies should embrace this film. Great performances by the entire cast, you are left in now doubt that these are the original crew members but the actors still put enough of a spin on the characters to make them "new".
Don't listen to the Trekkie whinges it's an entertaining romp and I for one am looking forward to many sequels.