IMHO the Star Trek canon needed to be seriously messed with. The ST universe had gotten so convoluted and compromised that it really needed a complete "re-boot." This movie does that, and I'm really looking forward to both seeing this movie again, and seeing sequels in the new Trek universe.
New Trek is better than Old Trek. Actually, what I'd really like to see is a TV series in the New Trek universe. I love TV space opera and the pickings are slim nowadays.
Slight spoiler alert . . .
color me delighted that the TNG/movie musical score did not get used at all in the new movie, as far as I noticed. It was old school, TOS theme music playing over the end credits (although I admit I didn't stay for all of the credits, so they may have tacked on the TNG theme at the end.)
Good lord! A TV series based off of the new Star Trek movie? I'd . . . start watching television again!
Turning square-jawed, two-fisted space opera into something modern and fresh was a longshot, but they certainly pulled it off. Santa couldn't possibly love us enough to bring a TV series to match.
Could he?