Star Trek Rebooted

Pretty darn good, actually. A bit actiony and not heavy on the societal/philosophical commentary. I'm fine with that. It was entertaining and the characters generally worked for me.


- The Uhura/Spock thing? I don't know. I'm... iffy on that. I'm not fully against it, but it feels a little awkward. I'm willing to see how it works out (and let's face it, there's probably going to be a sequel).

- I'm reserving some judgement on the accents, too. Chekov's felt a little... forced to me, but I'm willing to accept it might grow more natural.

- Nimoy showing up? Awesomeness all around. He's aging and it shows, but he's just cool.

- Phasers. Odd. The flipping lenses are kinda cute. A little gimmicky, but it's neat to be able to see what the weapon is set to. That we've gone from beams to pulses that seem to have a distinct, almost metallic, impact noises is odd to me, though.

- Time travel is so overused. And yet it worked well in this case. Clear creation of a new timeline, no worry over paradoxes.

- There is one bit that bugs me, though. From Nero and Spock, we get a rough outline of what "happened" in their past/now-alternate future...
Nero and crew are off mining in their mining ship. Spock promises to save Romulus from the supernova. The destructive wave hits Romulus, apparently ahead of schedule or something because Spock seems surprised. Spock goes to do his black hole thing. Nero ambushes him and they get unstuck in time.
What bothers me about this is that Nero and crew seem to go from miners to vengeful bastards in whatever time it takes for Spock to get to the supernova spot - maybe days at warp, probably not more. And from there, Nero and crew go back in time and destroy the Kelvin... with their mining ship.
Now, I can buy that this mining ship has a big ol' planetary drill. But even with a hundred-and-change years advancement, I find it hard to buy a mining ship destroying a Federation line vessel. Romulan mining ships apparently kick ass or something, because you really wouldn't expect a civilian ship to be that well armed/shielded/armored.
If they'd said "oh, the ship was refitted to a more military application" that would have made more sense to me... except that they only had those days or so to do it.
On the other hand, they then seem to wait around for twenty-some-odd years doing practically nothing. Nero's not heard from again until an attack in Klingon space in the "present."

Edit: Also, I have to say Kirk is... well, an arrogant git. He's hard for me to sympathize with and harder for me to say I like. But he also seems to have a certain charisma. The character is the type of person you either know and like or hate, there's not much middle ground. Again, that's something that works okay for me now, but he's going to have to develop some responsibility if I'm going to accept him in that captain's chair on a regular basis.

Edit 2: Heh. Reading the synopses for the comic mini-series that preceded the movie, Nero's ship, the Narada, apparently was refitted with advanced Romulan technology after the destruction of Romulus. Go figure.