Look, if I see a fist coming at my face with great speed, I am going to flich and say, "Ah crap! This is gonna hurt." Am I jumping to a premature conclusion? I guess you could say I am. But in the end it is the right conclusion. A fist to the face doesn't feel good, and neither does watching something you love be drug through the mud and abused.
All the guys saying, "Ah, hell, you haven't even seen the film yet! At least give it a chance!" seem to be the ones who says, "I am not really that big of a Trek fan, but I might go see this..."
Look around, it is all the guys who actually like Star Trek who are flinching and getting ready for the pain. This new movie is Star Trek without its fans, and what is anything without fans? It is nothing.
Imagine your favorite sports team going to play against another big sports team in the other teams hometown. Your favorite team decides they can make more money if they lose, because there are more non fans in the audience than fans, so they agree to go out there and loose for the sake of more money. You as a fan would probably feel a bit pissed at your team for this, right?
Well that is exactly what this new Trek is doing, it is like they decided,'Sure we have a lot of fans, but we realized that there are far more non-Star Trek fans out there than Star Trek fans. So we are going to forget about the fans, and make a movie everyone else will, like... well, not "like" per se, but will be willing to pay a ticket price to go see it once and maybe even buy the DVD to see a couple of times before forgetting about it forever...'
I have no doubt it will be a wonderful smack-you-in-the-ass-and-nick-name-you-Bernie kind of fantastic sci-fi adventure flick, and it will likely help sell a lot of Apple products, but it wont be a Star Trek film, not really anyway.
Lol, remember back before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out? A bunch of us were dogging on it, and then some other posters came along and pointed out how ridiculous we were being to rag on a film we had never seen... did anyone actually think IJATKOTCS was a good film? Anyone?