I'm no Trekkie. Thats for sure. However, I do know the characters from the original series fairly well, so this isn't coming from a total Trek noob.

J.J. definately found a sweetspot to take advantage of in movie-goer audiences in the modern age for this Star Trek reboot. Its different, and yet, eerily familiar. The first and perhaps best part about Star Trek is the action, so lets talk about that. Firstly, I'm glad beyond belief that there's none of that ridiculous "shaky camera" effect, whichI have really grown to hate. You always have a clear, exciting view of the action on-screen, so hats off to J.J. for not masking crappy special effects with a camera man on a high. While it may not seem so from the commercials, Star Trek's action isn't ridiculous and too over-the-top (aka, Zulu in a sword fight). Its all fitting and actually pretty epic. The special effects and CGI and all that are top-notch, and I like how they made the random blinky lights on instruments in the Enterprise more believable.

The characters in this new Trek are all what you remember, and they very much resemble their counter-parts. The original Spock is even in here, and not just as a cameo, which is obviously awesome. The characters areall slightly less mature, but they seem so much the same its actually kind of funny. I always laugh when McCoy acts all serious with his,"God-dammit, man!". The new characters are also cool, but there really isn't a whole lot.

As for the story, Trek falls a bit. Its certainly not bad and by no means the mess that was Star Wars Episodes One and Two, but the whole alternate reality and mending the way of time and such is quite confusing. Star Trek is also much less about actual exploration, and everything is around something familiar. I can't blame them too much for this though, because for exploration to happen requires a co-operative team, which the crew of the Enterprise -up until the end- is not. It did what needed to be done though, which is setting up all the character's orgins and done well. I do hope that the following films will focus on exploration a bit more. The dialogue is pretty cool, and the characters all enter their own occassional comic relief, which is quite funny, so much as to be a worthy competitor toIron Man, half of which was made up oflaugh-out-loud (I just couldn't use LOL)one-liners.

So overall, anyone interested in sci-fi or looking for a fun adventure need look no further than Star Trek. Yes, its way better than what you thought it would be.