Oh, Brother, Leave it Alone

Rating: 3/10 (11 November 2013)

The movie starts with Kirk and McCoy violating the Prime Directive. We don't know why, we just know that it is happening. We never find out exactly what they were doing on this primitive planet.
And the Enterprise literally underwater? And then flies through the air!? It's a *space*ship, newsflash!
And then it goes from bad to worse. Zachary Quinto's Spock is robot- like, and Nimoy's Spock, although certainly "logical" was never quite robot-like. He was always a real entity.
The original Kirk was someone we could rely on, a rock. This Kirk is a wild card, and he gets wilder.
And Scotty resigns his post.
And don't get me started about this Spock-Uhura romance that, in this movie, turns sour and muddles things up.
And Khan again !? Enough already with Khan! Come up with something new. Oh, right, Khan with a British accent.
It was at this point that I gave up.
Look, this is an action-packed space opera that has a complicated plot without too much going for it. I was not involved at all.
But it's not Star Trek.