where's the dept of the Plot

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2013)

I think it's great that JJ Abrams is trying to get a wider audience for Star Trek. The FX's are certainly spectacular. however, the special effects get so much attention that the dept of the stories suffer, and the finer details, for which i know Star Trek best, leave much to be desired. When i saw Startrek the Beginning the first thing that popped into my head was "I think they made a mistake, this isn't Star Wars, is it!?". when i saw Star Trek into Darkness i thought, "My god! they botched it again!"
You have to understand - i have always seen Star Wars as an entertaining action packed sci-fi fairytale and Star Trek as its more tempered intelligent big brother. they were always meticulous with details, especially chronologically and the stories carried a great moral content. so now i got to ask, for example... how come the klingons got their cranial ridges back, which they lost in season 4 of Startrek Enterprise, which was clearly used as the basis for the new star trek movies.
so please, bring back my star trek to me - i really do not need another Star Wars. the one we already have is plenty. I need a Sci-Fi that isn't afraid of asking their audience to think about the big questions, which the latest 2 Star Trek movies clearly seem to lack.
Remember, action and special effects are good... as long as the integrity of the story does not suffer from it.