How can we boldly go where no man has gone before in the future unless we have thrown off the shackles of the past? What a sad/shamey day it is when a Star Trek movie presents a not so optimistic future just as dark as today's headlines.
Not something that degrades into ordinary, mainstream, average caveman fist fight showdowns. Unless a Klingon or Romulan shows up, things are supposed to be refreshingly illuminating. To me the Federation meant a time in the future when Humanity had finally gotten its act together and to a certain extent had rooted out all this corruption and terrorism. Trade the "John Harrison" character for any Bond villain and you have a movie that sounds like a bunch of other movies or what the news broadcasts. Just trade the Federation for any corrupt financial, medical, educational, government and or religious institution. These are familiar themes we've all seen in movies before.
Where is the deepness that Star Trek is synonymous with? This movie gives us what? A federation struggling with internal corruption and terrorism, a la the typical disgruntled ex employee, who in this case was cryogenics frozen for 300 years, as is the plot. These expansions used to pave the way for the audience to mentally and emotionally take that next step to, "Boldly go where no man has gone before." This movie has no epiphany. Mainly, it is missing the philosophical "WOW" factors that don't just blow your mind but rather expands it, making you realise that everything you thought you knew is wrong and that everything you thought the Federation had figured out is also wrong. This movie is missing the hallmark epiphany moments Star Trek is famous for. The real problem with the movie is that it runs like a typical SciFi action plot inserted under a Star Trek banner. This is true and it would be OK if that were just the icing on the cake. In the movie theatre I heard a complaint from an old school Trekkie that the second installment of the Star Trek reboot had too many "Little Archie and Veronica" moments. We need Star Trek Into DEEPNESS, not darkness.
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