Missing a few points from a Perfect Movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 November 2009)

Worth a watch, Star Trek fan or not. For those old time (original series) fans, this movie provided a few insights in character background, but missed the mark on a few occasions. Most important is realizing that because of the events in this movie, the series episodes might not have evolved the way they did. Spock even informs Kirk in the alternate time, he knew his father and how proud his father was of him. The two biggest issues I have are: First, Spock would NEVER let Uhura get intimate with him, I'm sure the writers played off his half human side, but because of being half human, he always strived to hide those emotions... always. Second, at the end when the future Spock was talking with the young Spock, knowing he had lost his Mother, he could have used his Vulcan mind meld to transfer all of his memories of his Mother to the young Spock, giving him something more valuable than any other knowledge... the writers missed this major "heart string" puller at the end of this exciting action movie that would have had everyone walking out with a tear in their eye (who doesn't love their Mother!).