Best Trek Ever

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2013)

There are fans of J.J. Abrams Star Trek who cannot get over the fact that the original characters are now being played by different actors. To those I say just get over it. I have watched Star Trek from the very beginning. I sat on our couch Thursday evenings at 8:30PM with the TV tuned to NBC so obviously I have been around for a while. I was a fan of TOS and TNG but must admit to getting totally board with the other spin offs. As predicted the powers that be killed the goose that laid the golden egg. But J.J. Abrams brought that goose back to life the only way it could be done. He went back to basics and rebuilt the entire franchise. Seeing Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest in a completely new perspective is exciting and refreshing and was long overdue. I really liked the first Trek film Abrams produced but Into Darkness is a Trek masterpiece. He has preserved the major elements of Trek and its original characters played extraordinarily by this new cast and given them a whole new dimension. True to Roddenberry's idea, this new trek uses current world events as a basis to tell a sophisticated story. Abrams' interpretation of an earlier Star Trek plot was brilliant giving fans of the original series and films something new to discover while those having never seen Trek before, a movie as exciting as any Sci-Fi film out there today. Star Trek has established its own universe in these last 40 plus years. But it is a work of fiction and if the deviations of this new iteration of Trek disturbs your expectations of what Trek should be, you are cheating yourself out of some wonderful entertainment.