I agree, these new movies seem to be more a spin-off of the Star Trek saga than a part of it.many fans of Star Trek think these movies are just Trek in name only.....many are not happy with what abrams did with the franchise.....and i "chat" with many others in trek chat rooms to see this....and when robert orci basically told those people if you dont like it,tough shit....well he did not help.......Yeah....hate to disagree with you...the last two sucked.......
Hmm.. Then you might not like this one. The first if the new ones was pretty good, the second one was very good, this one is the best so far. But you have to like Star Trek though.
Great stories nonetheless.
Well in the first movie, they introduced the time disruption which completely changed everything. Vulcan was destroyed, Kirik's father was killed. This left them room to do completely different things with the movies. Personally, I see a LOT of nods to the original series. The casting is excellent as well imo.
Actually, the 'nods' to the original series are part of the problem. Instead of using this new timeline to come up with original stories, they decided to redo Khan for the second movie. Terrible idea.
I think the new movies are decent but I wish they'd be NEW movies and not constantly rehash old characters in a poor attempt to draw in fans of the old series/movies.