Great but not Star Trek

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2016)

STID is an entertaining,big budget,action packed space flick most teen agers surely enjoyed watching.The special effects are amazing.The casting was better than anyone could have imagined,and damn that Chris Pine looks eerily like a young Shatner at times.Technically,STID is a grade A film.Unfortunately,it is also a travesty on so many levels.Let me begin with the most glaring ones.JJ Abrahms admitted he never liked Star Trek the franchise yet they still let him make the movie.As a result,he turned the Star Trek Universe from an intelligent,evolved and very progressive world into a rightwingers wet dream.Fightin da turrists,war,guns and explosions. Remember Star Trek,how futuristic everything was portrayed? Well in THIS universe,Murikkka hasn't changed much.Helicopter like flying machine is able to get right up to the windows of a major national security meeting in a skyscraper.Shoots right through the glass.Spock has an open relationship with Uhura and takes a smart alec attitude when questioned by Pike after breaking the Prime Directive.People still go to sleezy bars on the corner to get wasted too interestingly.So much for evolved humans lol.The clothing is downright primitive looking for supposingly being so far into the future.The Enterprise has a glaring white interior,i thought I was watching Space Odyssey 2001.There is zero space or science exploration in this faux Star Trek universe...just good ole fashioned violence.But then again Abrahms destroyed Vulcan for a reason..he was warning the viewers....the war on intelligence has just begun,and the dumbing down of Murikkka must be maintained!