Akwat Kbrana said:

Any remake is going to run into problems pleasing the purists (though this particular self-styled purist was pleased). But I think the key is to avoid trampling on the spirit of the original, rather than trying to adhere rigidly to its every intricate detail (which would've been impossible in this case, anyway).

That is actually the part of it that bugged me the most. I am in no way a Star Trek purist, and to date there is no series of the show I have seen every episode of. But I feel like they kind of did trample the spirit of the original. Honestly, what is the bigger kick in the teeth to a franchise? Rebooting it to resell it to a new generation of fans? Or making events take place in the story that make everything you watched before cease to have happened, in order to resell it to a new generation of fans?

I feel like a straight reboot would have been perfectly appropriate, and a bit less messy. Nobody ever felt the need to tie Burton's Batman in with Nolan's, because it wasn't necessary. Both films co-exist happily with one another, adaptions made for different generations.