[Movie] Star Trek (2009)

I saw the film this morning, and Araes has summed it up best. It's a decent movie for casual viewers, but there are just way too many flaws.

Pros:

-Zachary Quinto made an excellent Spock.
-Simon Pegg, though a bit over the top for Scotty, was still enjoyable.
-Fitting in an awesome number of classic Trek cliches.

Cons and Plot Holes:

-Why is Kirk's wife on the Kelvin? Families, especially pregnant members, weren't aboard starships until TNG.
-Why is all of Starfleet in some other sector, and why does the Federation staff all the remaining ships (including their flagship) seemingly completely with newly graduated cadets?
-The whole having to stand still to beam up thing. Standing still 5 seconds in the confinement beam is completely bogus. Just have Amanda crushed by a rock if you're that set on killing her.
-Correct me if I'm wrong, but stopping a supernova by creating a black hole is insanely stupid. Wouldn't a black hole be much worse, what with radiation emissions and immense gravitation pull?
-Promoting Cadet Kirk all the way to Captain at the end, meanwhile Spock gets nothing.

Impression:

Would it have been that hard to write a sequel without completely invalidating just about the entire Star Trek universe (except for Enterprise)? When Amanda died and Vulcan blew up, I kept expecting some time travel mumbo-jumbo to put everything back the way it was supposed to be, but instead they blow up the Romulan ship and "The End". At least Captain Pike doesn't end in a beeping chair for the rest of his life (at least not yet).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Skexis

Also, Nutty, you are giving Trekkies a bad name, and that is some feat.

How am I doing that? Contrary to how my post might have looked, I actually did enjoy the movie, it just could have been much better.

Oh, and Dopefish reminded me of how much I hated the Uhura thing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ok, I just found out that Tyler Perry was in the movie. I'm downgrading my opinion accordingly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.