I have to be honest, and as much as I wanted to love this film, it falls quite short of my expectations for a decent Star Trek film. It was certainly full of action, but to me, it was dizzingly frenetic and overly hyperactive. It left me feeling as if I had been babysitting with a room full of two year olds or spent an hour on a rollercoaster! Overkill! It seemed more like Star Wars than Star Trek (Trek Wars?) to me, with that tiresome psychopathic villian vs the good guys routine. Again with the uber space station with millions of people. In that time, space stations were relatively small, not teaming metropolises. Other than the few Vulcans, they had no other recognizable aliens to bring continuity to the world. That really bugs me!
I still loved the characters, the acting, etc. They were all great and charming! One thing I absolutely LOVED in this movie was how they handled the Universal Translator! The way the alien girl spoke, you could see her talking in her own language, and the translator working over her speech, was done brilliantly. I wish they had always used such beautiful subtly in showing a translation! Very cool.
But overall, it was OK, but nothing memorable or even very interesting in the whole scheme of things Trek. I'm glad I saw it of course, but I doubt that I will ever watch it again.
