Anchorhead said:

Jaitea said:

JJ successfully moved the Star Trek movies away from the nerds into the main cinema audience

Speaking as a Star Trek nerd; To me, he did both. I had said goodbye to Trek because I was tired of seeing Data sing show tunes, while the crew discussed the Prime Directive and wedding decorations.

Abrams gave me back Star Trek. He gave me tension, Kirk being an arrogant ass, and Spock irritating McCoy. The fact that the non-nerds liked it is just icing on the cake.

It certainly was, and speaking as a Star Wars nerd what i was trying to say was it would be great if the new Star Wars film was appealing to everyone...that everybody would want to see it for the ride