Could be,the Transporter officer was James Doohans son.

They totally blew the end. When Spock asked him what course they should take. I was waiting for the classic Kirk line from one of the old movies. The Peter Pan Line-"First Star to the right and straight on till morning." Would have nailed the movie and made it better but no. Fuck Abrams.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

you know, it WAS kind of a slap in the face that in the beginning of the movie we have the spiffy and shiny prototypical-crew-hiearchy in place for an adventure and at the end we have the exact same shit going forward.... literally, save a few deaths and a few events that could be OMFG HUGE or shrugged off depending on the lindelof rewrites, shit, ask yourself over a can of beans at the campfire in your infinite vulcan logic: is life REALLY but a dream?

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Yeah, I was really waiting for that, too.

I enjoyed it. Probably the 4th or 5th best ST film. I thought Khan was a much better villain than the last film.

The action is what makes these movies. The cast is great but they don't have any scenes that breathe to allow you to feel why these characters care for each other. That's where they are dropping the ball.

Still a fun movie. I was spoiler free and did not know it was going to be a remake of sorts.

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You know me like that.

Nero wasn't even fleshed out. If you add the deleted scenes from ST09 and the prequel comic the writers used to add some things (because they couldn't do anything to the movie script because of the writer's strike back then) you may get a full character. I will say though that there was a great set of lines by Nero that was very important to the film
It's easy to miss, but he's the personification of the Star Trek nerds that complain about canonicity in the ST universe. It's basically JJ Abrams telling everybody to back off.

I really enjoyed it. They did a good job of making "John Harrison" into a sympathetic figure whom you would hate one minute and then root for the next. The casting of the new crew is flat-out perfect and the musical score was very good. Not a perfect film, but I think it's one of the best ST movies (probably only behind ST2 in my opinion). In fact, if ST2 didn't exist, I'd place this one on top (one of the weak points was the parallelism to ST2 as well as the new/old Spock flashback).

Saw IM3 and STID in the same weekend, and thought STID was far superior. IM is regressing, ST improving.

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I heard JJ Abrams on Stern last week. It sounds like he had Leonard Nemoy in the movie just to antagonize William Shatner, which he did.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

i listened to that interview as well, GD. abrams is a bit of a tool but the interview was still good.

the exaggerated bulges in the Klingon costumes were disturbing. I'm glad I opted not to see it in 3D

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.