corellian77 said:

I'm always amazed when a self-professed Star Trek fan says he/she liked the last movie. It's so far removed from what I think made the original and Next Generation Trek good (i.e., characters with depth, thought-provoking storylines that explored the human condition, etc.) that I can't fathom how any fan could have enjoyed this version, which was nothing but action-driven drivel with two dimensional characters.

I feel as though I should watch it again in order to give it a fair shake, but I can't help but feel I'll just come to the same conclusion.

Reading this thread, those are pretty much the exact same thoughts I had. All the way down to feeling like I ought to watch it again.

I especially disagreed with the thoughts on Simon Pegg's Scotty. I love Pegg, but I don't feel like he even remotely captured Scotty. Scotty was a comic relief character, and Pegg's Scotty definitely tried to play the comic relief role, but I feel the relation ends there. To me the character felt like Simon Pegg on screen doing an extended Scotty impression, while not even managing to be that much like Scotty.