This Star Trek Thing
A lot of entertaining hoo-ha - I love that the lifting of budget constraints allows them to show
off all the cool toys in this universe.  And the characters are mostly true to form.

But, there were two things that bothered me.

-Having the whole movie take place in an alternate reality is just crying out, "Writing story
hard!"  After ten movies, dozens of novels, and hundreds of episodes, admitting you can't
think of a story to tell within the canon is like admitting you can only string viewers along with
mysterious clues which imply a fascinating artifice, only to have that artifice collapse into a
steaming pile of dumb after about one season.  Oh wait, JJ Abrams wrote Lost?

-Showing that Vulcans, deep down, have emotions = OK.  Having Uhura show unrequited love
for Spock = OK.  Having Spock make out with Uhura every time they get in the elevator != OK!
Spock is asensual, and constantly perplexed by human behavior, and that's why we love him
(Yes, I just spoke for you) - he's saying things from somewhere a little ways out.  If he gets too
human, we wind up wondering when he says X, "Is that really logical, or is he just looking for
an excuse for some more elevator time?"

-Scotty's ewok: loved it.  Not one of the things which bothered me.  I look forward to its
spinoff cartoon series.