I really hope we stay “stuck” in this universe for any other movies and we never see time travel again. I liked it for the novelty of being broken and STAYING broken and now the characters we know have to prove themselves in different circumstance. As a bookstore goer there are hundreds of Star Trek Comics/novels/games printed. Everything just shy of what’s in this movie has been explored to death for every possible character that ever appeared on film, in multiple timelines, and it’s supposed to all be “canon”. I felt it flowed nicely from First Contact and the Enterprise series. That series “grounded” the franchise by stripping all the “god” gadgets, and they don’t get out of trouble with technobabble, but with wits and courage.

Abrams recreated a world where nobody’s safe, anybody can be killed off and at the end of the movie now, Paramount can disavow his changes like any of the countless novels on the shelves.

The fact that the original timeline still exists is a moot point. It’s like someone got some paint and painted on top of an existing graffiti. The fact that the original graffiti exists underneath the new paint doesn’t make it “right”. It was disrespectful, and took away a lot of the believability of the ST universe.

My point is, that Abrams could have told a story that fit in the original timeline, and be a story that we never heard before. The fact that there are encyclopedias about Star Trek, doesn’t mean that everything has been told.

To me, it feels like he didn’t wanna pay the extra salary of a continuity researcher.

Spock+Uhura = love the twist to the old and boring “Kirk get the girl” plot

I guess I am not hardcore enough (although I saw original in the 70s) to be bother by the changes to the timeline. Plus if you consider Old Spock point of view, the entire original timeline existed (and always will – he lived it) and now a new one is added in a parallel universe. A absolute remake of the old storyline would have make impossible to say/create anything new.

Eugenia, your comparison to BSG failed to note that many fans hated the new remake for not being faithful. Exactly what people seems to be upset about this time again.

Au contrary, I think that by taking the middle ground approach, JJA did the only thing possible. Fans would have dismiss a remake from scratch for being unfaithful (except you i guess) and regular people would have been bored of being retold the same old story again if he had done a “pure” Star Trek.

This Trek was wrong on so many levels it’s hard to even consider making a list of them. It was just a flashbang for the subteenagers out there, and a joke for the rest of us.

This was not the movie I wanted either. It certainly wasn’t the movie we were promised. We were promised that this movie wasn’t a reboot and would tell the story of how our beloved characters meet.

We didn’t get that. We got a story about some other people from another universe who shared the same names, but most everything else was different.

I wanted the love and care put into the Enterprise episode “In A Mirror Darkly” on the big screen. Every episode that recreated the original series sets and took place in them were top rated episodes.

Paramount isn’t listening to the fans. We don’t go to see a movie once. We go 20 times. We buy the DVD and the Blu-Ra y, the books, the soundtracks, the models and toys…

Paramount is leaving a lot of money on the table. I’ll only see this movie once, the toys and models look like dog doo, the soundtrack is not very good, the book is different from the movie in significant ways, etc…

I’ll keep watching the Star Trek Phase II fan films that get it right and give me the Star Trek I grew up with and love.