Standing Ovation from a room full of Trek Fans.

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2013)

I have had it up to my Vulcan Ears with the targeted attacks on this new Trek. When negative reviews seem to pile up and all repeat themselves verbatim, they were not written by several different people but in fact ONE person. Targeted Attacks to try to bring down the Rating of a film. As you can see, the overall Rating does not agree with the pompous spouting of a few loud individuals. Most of the people who have seen this film have enjoyed it as much as I did - Even giving it a standing ovation at the end credits -The WHOLE room, all standing up and cheering at the end. This tells a different story than the story told by the 1-star commenter who uses several identities to say the same thing over and over.
Stardate -308983.9
I walked into the theater never having seen a film made for I-Max, *in* I-Max - This is the best 3D I have never seen.
From the start, we see Kirk doing what Kirk is best at doing: Completely Disregarding the Prime Directive and the Chain of Command. This Enterprise as we see it at the beginning of this latest Voyage, is a ship of Squabbling Crewmembers. Kirk is Squabbling with Spock who is Squabbling with Uhura who is squabbling with Sulu and Scotty is absolutely refusing to Obey Kirks Orders.
Bookends. The first thing we see is the Enterprise rising from the Ocean on a Planet of Jungle People who would have all died. SPOCK Would have died. If not for Kirk's Disobedience.
For all of Kirk's Insubordination, he is rewarded with a big fat kick in the buttocks by Starfleet Command. Reduced in Rank, The Enterprise Given back to it's Former Commander, it appears for a bit that we are back to the way things were before Kirk joined Starfleet: If not for one Christopher Pike.
Meanwhile a Starfleet Officer with a dying daughter is seen being confronted by a strange, eerie man. KHAN. Who heals the Officer's ailing daughter - For A High Price. But it was all a ruse, every event that occurs which brings Kirk back into Command of his ship has been designed by this one man. This new KHAN who has been given depth and dimension never afforded the same character we met in "Space Seed". In fact, some of the things which occurred in the Prime Universe appear to never have happened at all in this Alternate Universe. This does not need to be explained, this needs to be enjoyed. And we, as a theater, as a whole, enjoyed it.
So the Enterprise goes to Qo'nos, armed with some "new torpedoes"- To Qo'nos, because Khan has used Scotty's Transwarp Transporter to escape there. So for the first time in this Universe, we get to see Klingons and their ships.
But we have been tricked, as Kirk has been tricked. We've been looking at the wrong Bad Guy. But have we? It requires a Phone Call to Spock Prime on New Vulcan to get some needed facts about this Khan.
The squabbling at the beginning of the film between the primary characters is due to the fact that Spock indeed has emotions, just as he always has had emotions, he is just being Logical in not wanting them to govern his actions. But even this is tested down to the bone in this characterization of Spock.
This is an Enterprise Crew which is handed events that would have ripped the Original Series Crew into thousands of bits. It just seems that in these new stories, there is NO TIME- Because something else is always happening or being set up to happen.
So we in the theater embraced this rapid-fire Trek which shot off several episodes worth of raw story in Phaser-Rifle succession. I've seen one particular type of complaint saying "This is a remake of The Wrath of Khan" or "Canon was ruined and ignored" - And this one person who is posting these complaints as many other people is missing the point that this is not the Original Universe, and is not giving his or herself permission to just ENJOY the premise that this *is* an alternate Reality.
This is just to say, there is a TIME to keep things the same and a time to move on to new things. For the new Production Team, the same Team that bought us Fringe - To take on this new endeavor is difficult, because it would be easy to get stuck in the same rut that caused Enterprise to close it's ShuttleBay Doors prematurely.
And because of that, Gene Roddenberry's hand-picked successor was given the boot by Paramount and the four or five huge storehouses of Trek Props which had been saved since The Original Series were sold to the highest bidders.
So A Worthy Successor had to be chosen, and I believe the right guy was given the Job. To me, this is the same as the Klingon Right of Succession for the leader of the High Council.
So it is not that Trek references were crammed into a 2-hour film, it was the proper use of them. Spock contacts Spock Prime, and Spock Prime is STILL Spock from The Original Series. This is ESTABLISHED.
If you think that Trek has been ruined - Then stick your DVD of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" into your DVD player and you can watch that repeatedly for the rest of your life - While the rest of us move on and explore the galaxy with this new Crew. Because Bajor is out there, Cardassia is out there, The Founders are still out there (And Odo). The Prophets are still there, now we can meet them all again in a whole new way - And I can't wait for the next installment of this great franchise.