A decent effort but needs more work.

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2013)

This movie's storyline is not as tight as the storyline in Star Trek 10. There are serious flaws in the storyline that you could drive a Mack Truck through. In the original movie, the flaws were minor things, like forgetting your phasers when you space-jump onto an enemy platform with self-destruct orders. This movie violates the Star Trek Universe to a much greater extent (example : an alien space is penetrated deeply and with not even a trifle of an explanation as to how.)
Star Trek movies always had a message, and Roddenbury was patient enough to hammer the message into the viewer's head, by having the main characters act dumb and ask questions until the viewer understood what was at stake. The original series also discussed the implications of the problem they were trying to solve, and they made it very clear.
In this movie, the message gets lost in all the phaser battles, jumps from high places, blown up ships, death and destruction, etc.
The only cute thing in this movie is that it has a different meaning if you're old enough to have seen the original source material upon which it is based. That is mildly interesting. But Star Trek movies are for the boomers and 50-65 year old set any more; they're for the kids, and even my kids noticed the flaws in this movie, "Daddy, it wasn't as good as Iron Man".
Also, the important inter-relationship between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy is not played up as much as in Star Treks 1-10, or in any of the original series's episodes. Again, that's because too many things were being blown up, or people were having too many fistfights, and these things consumed nearly all of the screen time.