It has been reported that JJ Abrams is going to bring fun back to Star Trek. As it has been a long time since it was fun.

Hopefully he gets the film somewhere between the more cerebral Trek like the Cage and The motion Picture, and the action romps like Star Trek II and First Contact.

I just hope the trailer is a way to put people off and not how the movie actually is.

I have read a run down of 20-40 minutes of footage on a site based off of what abrams is toring with. And the context of certain things in the trailer make better sense. I might not like the whole time travel angle and the kinda funny way that is being used to explain away design changes. But this is a film for 2009 and not a tv show airing in 1969. The scene with Leonard Nimoy described as being Pivotal to the entire plot of the film should move fans of tos. If this movie is a Spock Centric film and not Kirk Centric then that explains William Shatners absense. The only real question to me is why is not Nimoy directing the movie, he understands the character of spock better than anyone living does.

It it turns out to be just another enjoyable sci fi popcorn flick with eye popping effects and a non existant plot then it will not satisfy longtime fans. The fact that they claim they are sticking to the human elements of the story and making good drama fit also with action in the picture sounds awesome but can they pull it off?

They have a lot to prove since these guys wrote the awful script for Transformers. Bayformers as it is now called by its haters. That was a good popcorn flick but raped its source material i hope the same is not done here.