Yep, plus what kind of Federation depends on a twenty-something for salvation?
Dumb plot, unidimensional characters (a second dimension is too much to ask for from Abrams), but loads of action and over-the-top CGI.
For $1.00 I’ll rent it on a night I don’t feel like thinking.
It is a slightly more mature version of the new “kid” movies where the adults are idiots and the kids save everything, or the dystopian novels where the teenagers in love save society. College grads with no future want to be the next tech savior / social savior, and the Star Trek reboot gives them that fantasy outlet. Never mind a military consortium with millions of members picked from the best of all species - the barely graduated guy is the solution.