To anyone upset about this movie...

[Sky]

I can't say that at all because I don't think it's true. Taking away all of my Trekkie prejudices, I think that the movie doesn't even hold up well as a stand alone action film. Sure, it has some excellent production design & special effects but none of it is used in service to a good story or even an exciting story. For all of the flack that the Star Wars prequels endured, for all of the hopelessly stilted dialogue that they subjected the audience to, they at least provided some exciting, iconic fight scenes. The new Star Trek movie can't even manage that.

I have to agree with this. If I take my Trekkie glasses off, the movie does not get better - it gets much worse. It does not work as a stand alone film at all; to understand anything about the characters and to connect in anyway emotionally to them I need the whole Trek backstory.

There's no excitement or shock value in seeing Vulcan destroyed if you've never even heard of it. Spock's mother gets killed - well, if you're not a Trekkie and haven't seen any of the previous stuff, you've only seen her on screen for about 10 seconds so there's no emotional impact.

And the story, sadly, is bad, no matter if this is Trek or something completely different.