Sorry, Sea Tyger- that's the rum talking.
You'll feel differently at reveille...
Ultimately, though, you are correct: it is my opinion.
The material was trite, hackneyed, and an in-your-face affront to those who actually care about issues like canon, consistency, and intellectual integrity.
There was nothing original in the 2009 movie. Every major plot point was derivative: the teasing Spock endured was lifted directly from the Animated Series. The lecture boy-Spock received from Sarek after the brawl was lifted word-for-word from the Animated Series episode "Yesteryear".
The death of Captain Robau was the same tried-and-trite "I will commit an utterly senseless act of violence against an innocent person just to show how bad I am" used by every other B-movie villain for the last hundred years.
You could've switched out Nero with Bond's Hugo Drax without any appreciable change in the movie.
Kirk's father's death amd Pike's consignment to a wheelchair were both lifted directly from canon. The buggies that Nero used to extract the defense codes from Pike were a cheap re-use of the plot point from WoK.
The villain was a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out of a Romulan with a new supership/superweapon intent on destroying the Earth- lifted almost whole cloth from Nemesis.
Spock/Uhura romance was once a staple of fan-fic.
To misquote Flynn from Tron, "So one night, our boy Flynn, he goes to his terminal, tries to read up his file. I get nothing on there, it's a big blank. Okay, now we take you three months later. Dillinger presents Encom with five video games, that's HE'S invented. The slime barely changed the names, man! He gets a big, fat promotion."
I would not be surprised by any measure if it were discovered that they decided on the plot by writing all the major elements of previous Star Trek episodes on ping-pong balls, tossed 'em in a hopper, and wrote the story based on the first six balls they drew out lottery-style.
The "throw-aways" that Abrams included in the film as a sop a/o "tribute" to the die-hard fans were universally insulting to their intelligence.
Nor am I alone in that assessment:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/in...ies-trekxi.htm
What is not opinion are the metrics I mentioned in my original foaming-at-the-keyboard rant.
Is there any empirical evidence to support the lauditory (if not worshipful) tones in Baron's charges above?
If there is, I haven't seen it.
And I have little or no hope that the newest Abrams abomination will do anything more to resurrect the franchise.
It is revealing, in my opinion, that Baron has now mentioned "the initiated" and "those who are hip to it" twice.
An organization and a movement do not grow by preaching to the choir.
Trekdom does not grow by putting art-majors, Abrams cultists, and grey-haired die-hards who remember when Shatner had teeth back in theatre seats.
By his own admission, these are the people Baron thinks are being targeted.
I'm afraid he's right....
For all the adulatory press and self-reverential declarations of brilliance which surrounded Wrek2009, there is no evidence (of which I'm aware) that new blood has been infused into the franchise in any meaningful or lasting way.
It certainly added nothing significant to the canon.