After much pondering I decided to embrace the new movie for what it was and for the crowd to whom it was intended. This movie is primarily for teenagers and twenty-somethings who grew up with the last 3 poorly conceived Star Wars movies. The ones who are used to tons of effects and little story line. For them this fills the bill and then some.

Taking a step back though, the movie is entertaining. Yes, I do have to ignore everything I know and love about the Star Trek universe that I grew up with and perhaps that is okay. Abrams, the director, did not want to create another Trek movie for an older over 40 crowd that is used to every-other movie being a bomb. As far as I am concerned, Star Trek 6 was THE last good movie from the Genre. The Next Generation flicks were poorly done extensions of the TV series, save for “First Contact”.

Abrams had a solid idea to revive a fairly tired genre and remake the thing in a new image. Yes, the new movie has many time-line flaws such as all of the original crew being on the Enterprise at the same time despite their ages respectively. And of course, how could Kirk go from cadet to full Captain in a few days without his upper class-men wanting to kill him. Certainly a real Trekker would have made this movie vastly different and stuck to the original concepts, but we have to ask ourselves, “would it have done as well at the box office”? Very doubtfully I expect.

Which is, sadly, what it is now.

What makes this even more of a travesty is that some of the die hard fans just don’t get it. They don’t realize that, by building on this film, they are killing 50 years of history. They just don’t seem to care as long as someone gives them something shiny to look at every couple of years.

Star Trek is truly dead.

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