So I saw it last night.
Without going too much into spoiler territory, I was surprised at how much it didn't suck. I was very, very prepared to hate this movie, and I didn't.
The particular story device they used in order to facilitate the reboot was, IMO, the only one possible for them to use in order to make it work, and they did it about as creditably as anyone could have hoped, I think.
I still think the choice to reboot the franchise by taking it backward was a poor choice. I still think it would've been better to maintain continuity and taken the Trek universe forward several hundred years.
That said, I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed watching this, once it became clear what they were doing and how they chose to do it.
Was it a perfect movie? No. Could I have made a better Trek movie, given the power and the money? Maybe. But it was shockingly watchable, and not in any way a waste of two hours.
I even find myself looking forward to the next one....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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