A very enjoyable movie, but come on already, Hollywood

Rating: 8/10 (22 May 2009)

First off, let me establish that I'm a long time Trek fan and even own a few Master Replicas' phasers, etc., but I don't possess a Trek costume. 'nuff said.
I have few issues with this reboot. In fact, I gave it a soft "8."
My big beef is that Hollywood continually treats time travel as though it's a piece of cake and that no one comes out mutated or crushed or whatever. In fact, everyone always comes out . . . period. One piece. Here I am and there you are, me in the future, or me in the past.
Examples of time-travel abuse: "Star Trek IV" The "Terminator" movies "Timeline" "Deja Vu" "Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis"
Yes, yes. I understand that it's all entertainment and that it's "accept the premise, accept the bit," but it's all starting to seem like sci-fi screenplay "deus ex machina." Just put time travel into the story and thus everything we do in the movie will be a cinch, plus we can bring back some old character everyone loves, blah blah blah. Plus there are never any significant issues with transporting a person through time via what's usually an unstable (i.e. variable) field. A piece of someone's left pinky could get crushed in normal time while another piece goes back three-thousand years to some faraway location while another piece gets transferred to an alternate universe. That all might be impossible, but it certainly seems more realistic. But, of course, that would screw up any story reliant on "perfect" time travel.
Time travel is probably the most incredible thing that could really happen, unless we're talking about time travel into another universe.
Sorry. Had to gripe. I was overdue.