I liked it overall. The good parts outweigh the plot nitpicks. And how great was it to see Sarek again back in '84? Amazingly, I didn’t get spoiled that he was going to be in the movie. I didn’t appreciate how much the character meant to some people until a fellow fan I knew from college was terribly upset at Sarek’s final fate on TNG.

You’d think Starfleet brass had seen and experienced enough strange phenomena to accept the possibility that McCoy wasn’t going nuts. And how did the general public find out about the whole Genesis incident before the Enterprise even got home? The cynic in me felt at the time David was being thrown under the bus, because now that TWOK proved Trek movies had legs, the new kids had to go. (And Savvik was gone, never to be heard from again after TVH.) Kirk’s reaction to David’s death is probably one of Shatner’s finest moments in all of Trek.

I still get a little choked up at the Enterprise’s destruction. (Setting the self destruct is almost word for word from the third season episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) That wrecking the Enterprise has been done one time too many over the years, has not robbed this sequence of it’s power.

Just about everybody gets great moments in this. (McCoy’s reaction to learning what Spock did to him is priceless.) Sulu gets to kick butt, and Uhura can lock me in a closet anytime. 😉