Fundamentalist Trekkies....

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

I'd like to take the opposing opinion TeGH.

I hate the new Star Trek.

For one simple reason.

"Child Cadets in Space".

Oh, and a plot that bloody doesn't make sense.

Really, where the fuck was Nero for 18 fucking years?

Just twiddling his thumbs in his super ship that waxed a DOZEN Klingon D7's?

The new Star Trek reminds me very much of Avatar -- beautiful, wonderous, an experience!

Until you start analyzing the plot...

The whole shtick of the ORIGINAL series played off of a trio of supposedly experienced (read as older than cadet) career military officers.

I saw none of that with the new Star Trek, except a crap load of kids.

And the scene where Spock brutally assaults Kirk? Would that have EVER happened in front of the bridge crew on a vessel that, for all intensive purposes, is a WARSHIP?

Gods, just thinking about the complete inanity of the scene itself insults my intelligence.

Good thing I had plenty of beer to watch the movie -- I was able to paralyze my brain long enough to enjoy the mindless explosions.

Then again, I did the same for Transformers ROTF.

They were ages 25 to 30 with the exception of Chekov who was 18. They're hardly "kids." In TOS they were in their mid thirties so the movie being set before their five year mission, the ages are about right.

You're forgetting that Spock is half human half vulcan who's struggling with emotions. He just lost his entire planet a few minutes before the fight scene and Kirk was trying to get him to fight so he'd take control of the ship.

As for what Nero's gang was doing, IDK. I think I read they were supposedly on that Klingon prison planet for a little while and then they escaped. I imagine they were planning the destruction of the Vulcan planet the whole time.