[RedShirtWalking]

Originally Posted by CaptArthron

I was looking forward to this movie for months, and as much as i wanted to enjoy it, in the end i just couldn't get past parts of the story.

Spoilers?

I really don't see how anyone, whether they have been a fan or not, can walk away from this movie feeling good about it. They destroyed Vulcan!! Even if you had no appreciation for this planet going into the movie, for Gods sake there were 6 billion people on the planet. People can try to rationalize "alternate timelines" all they want, but i just can't swallow that. When you go back in time you don't go to an alternate universe you stay in THIS universe and change history. I know they hinted in the movie this was going to be an alternate universe or whatever, but that doesn't make sense to me, they undid TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and every movie that's been made. I guess the only stories that weren't undone were "enterprise" which really needed to be undone.

I have never considered myself a trek canon purist. I wanted change. I wanted more realism, i wanted fuller charectors, i wanted an updated look and feel, i wanted an updated trek that could fit into present day scifi. This movie accomplished much of that i think, but only at the cost of a complete reboot of the franchise, which i find totally unacceptable.

As much as i didn't want to be dissapointed, i am. Whatsmore I'm dissapointed that I'm disspointed because i never have thought of myself as clinging to canon the way some fans do. But i just can't get past Vulcan. I'm glad other people enjoyed it though, but i didn't.

But, that's the thing, they didn't "undo" anything! That universe still continues to exist. Don't get me wrong, I'm still in shock over that happening, but it doesn't ruin anything for me as far as Established Trek goes.