A major disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2014)

This movie started out so promising. Captain Kirk makes the mistake of risking his first officers life to stop an erupting volcano. In order to save his first officers life he then sends his ship near the volcano to beam Spock aboard his ship, violating the prime directive in the process. Expecting a promotion for his actions, Kirk then goes to meet admiral Pike at Starfleet headquarters. Rather then receiving praise, Kirk receives criticism for his actions. Pike rightfully points out that Kirk thinks the rules do not apply to him and they he should not have risked his first officers life in the first place. He then goes on to point out that he will be demoted from captain to first officer under him until he is ready to be a captain again. This scene was perfect.
But this scene ultimately does not matter at all. We then hear that Kirk is going to lose his command and then a minute later we hear that he is going to get his command back. Quite frankly this is an insulting sequence of events. Its like the creators of this movie do not want their viewers to be thinking well watching this. They just want their viewers to eat their popcorn and marvel at the special effects without actually thinking about anything that is being shown to them. By the ending of this movie admiral Pike dies leaving us with characters like Kirk that do not receive any consequences for their actions. As a result, unlike with the previous movie, I am no longer looking forward to seeing what happens in the next movie in this series.