Review of The Newest Star Trek Film

First of all I grew up on Star Trek, so if there is one TV/movie franchise that i actually follow and has meaning to me, Trek would be it. It’s not often that I am compelled to write a movie review, since I barely even watch any movies anymore… it’s usually only because of a huge disappointment. Actually the only other time i’ve wrote one was for the last batman movie i believe. And I’ve been putting off seeing the new trek movie for a couple of months now because I’ve been busy with other things, but now I have to admit i am pretty disappointed after watching it.

On the plus side the movie was entertaining, and the cast did a fairly good job of duplicating the vibe of the original star trek with a modern spin for the most part, but what I dislike is fact that with one movie JJ. Abram has basically made all other Trek(except Enterprise) irrelevant, since it’s all just a different time line / alternate reality that doesn’t exist any more. Basically he has flushed 40 years of trek down the toilet… the original series, TNG, DS9, Voyager all no longer exist in his version of star trek…Ok I could live with Voyager being no more, since that show had very few redeeming qualities to it for me, but you don’t just throw out the good with the bad. the last two TNG movies were also pretty horrendous too but while those movies may have killed star trek because of the fact that they were so bad, this movie killed star trek in a much more literal fashion. I have a hard time seeing why the people in charge of the star trek franchise, would let Abram develop this into a film… other than the fact that they are just so desperate to revive the franchise, which it probably will in the short term, but looking at the bigger picture this move makes star trek a lot more confusing and convoluted and weakens the franchise.

If you are a non star trek fan you should enjoy it, you might even enjoy it if you are a fan, but this movie lets down a lot of star trek fans like me. Before this movie came out star trek for the most part had maintained continuity over the past 40 years, with only a few small errors here and there that you could turn a blind eye to, but now that continuity is gone.

Also where were the people who acted like temporal police men from the 29th century that travelled back through time to fix any changes to the time line when the whole temporal cold war was going on in the enterprise TV series or when they travelled to 1996 in Voyager? Wouldn’t the death of Kirks dad, and destruction of Vulcan along a sizable part of the federation and kilingon fleets be enough of a change in the time line to warrant them coming back to fix it? It just doesn’t make sense.

Ok that’s enough. I’ve gotten that out of my system now.