Originally Posted by Drithius
The recent Star Trek movie was a major deviation from what Roddenberry had always pushed in ST: a philosophical and hopeful outlook on the future, layered in sci-fi. What Abrams gave us instead was some hackneyed coming-of-age story with a petulant villain and lots of explosions. Fun summer flick but not Star Trek.

yeah he kinda killed the concept with that movie, replaced it with an average action movie with stereotype hollywood characters (witty brit, crazy russian etc), and filled the movie with samurai swords and some star wars rip off scenes (monster in ice cave, ..wow)