Star Trek Movie

I can see how Abrams, Orci, and Kurtzman were thinking about how to justify changes they wanted to make to the Star Trek universe, and came up with the idea that time travel from the 24th Century back to the 23rd century that changed everything could give them just what they needed to make a whole new series of adventures. Without it, they would have to be locked into repeating the orginal series episodes and stories.

HOWEVER, what they did with this storyline is completely erase Roddenberry/Berman Star Trek history as we knew it!! That, I don't like. I would rather them continue going their own way, doing their own storylines, without linking it to the Roddenberry/Berman Star Trek history as we know it.

To their credit, they did an amazing job presenting a world that is futuristic. Since the original Star Trek aired in the 60s, it does not look futuristic by today's technology - we have met or surpassed much of the technology presented (maybe because people got their ideas from Star Trek, and found a way to make it happen). Berman and Braga struggled with this in Enterprise series - they had to make Enterprise seem futuristic, but not more so than TOS. They did a good job over the series 'migrating' the technology towards TOS.

They changed many many things - and I think that helps break this franchise away from Roddenberry/Berman franchise. I really don't like how they erased Roddenberry/Berman Star Trek from history. However, something tells me that this is a message to fans, 'This is a whole new Star Trek, forget the Star Trek you knew, it is gone forever.'

I would have rather had them ignore Roddenberry/Berman history, than erase it. It remains to be seen if I am a fan of Abrams/Orci/Kurtzman Star Trek.

P.S. This is the writing team that is cranking out Transformers movies. They clearly know how to make a PG-13 action movie. Star Trek was never really about action, though the last seasons of DS9 say otherwise. And there was only one Star Trek movie (of 10) that got a PG-13 - the rest were PG.