Big Time Trek/Sci-Fi fans are missing the point...

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2013)

So I feel I have to get my 'Trek Cred' out of the way here. I am not a 'Trekkie' in the true-est sense as I have only glanced at the books and the expanded Trek universe, however I was big into the Next Generation when I was young for a brief time and last year took it upon myself to go back and watch every series of Trek + every movie in the order they came out... and I did it.
I have a better admiration for a series like Deep Space 9 than before and even the original Trek... although the original Trek is far, far more campy than some seem to think it was...
Today we see that movies are having a hard time with stories. Across the board TV has become the new avenue for telling a good story (Game of Thrones as an example) because they have so much more time to develop the characters and the world.
The tricky part with this Star-Trek re-boot is that JJ had to take all these existing characters and attempt to appease the original fans and bring in new fans by changing it enough to not just make each movie a science or lore lesson.
This movie, for me, was a solid 8. It's not the best Trek movie and it's not even close to the worst (hello Generations...).
I'm also quite surprised at the comments that complain about this vs Star Trek 2... where this one made some sense... but don't mention that Star Trek Nemesis was actually a worse rip-off in every sense and a far worse film...
My only one complaint was that this film didn't have a well done space-battle like in Star-Trek 2. That battle Kirk vs Khan was handled better than I think any battle i've seen in any Trek and I was hoping to see something as interesting as that.
Overall the acting is great, plot is fine, action/CG is good but over-the-top, throw-backs worked well... it is a little bit of a shame that Trek has been turned into Science-Fantasy/Action from Science Fiction but I think it holds just fine.
9 Posted to offset some of the ridiculous 2 scores, unless all those people want to go back and give Nemesis a 0.