georgec said:

As someone who didn't really watch much ST growing up (occasionally on tv), do the harder core ST fans dislike what Abrams is doing because he doesn't have as much of the more cerebral sci-fi discussion/commentary?

I think Abrams did a good job on the first one, and the alternate universe thing allows him to leave every preexisting thing in the myths intact. But his works seem less like ST movies and more like action movies set in the ST universe. And I don't mean that in a negative way.

Just some thoughts I had. Someone let me know if this seems reasonable or if I sound stupid.

I'm a pretty hardcore fan of Trek, and I loved the film. I can understand where a lot of other fans are coming from though when they say they don't like it...

Except for the ones that don't like it simply because it's popular with the general public. Those guys are dumb.