What?? {^) Love it or hate it, I guess. I loved the old Shatner Star Treks and was okay with the Next Generation for a while, then they lost me. But I absolutely loved the new Star Treks with Pine & whatshisname. Two movies so far, right? Except for the stupidly gratuitous scene of the kid racing around in a Corvette (totally moronic) in the first one, both films exceeded my expectations! {^) I love 'em!
Loathing and visceral contempt would be too complimentary as to how I feel about J.J. Abrams abortion. It is Faux Trek to me.
I totally dug the first JJ Trek. The four Next Generation films were putrid garbage. All four would have been great TV episodes, but were abysmal, boring, silly films. I actually left the theater during Nemesis. Only Insurrection had some redeeming qualities.
JJ Abrams saved Star Trek with his “reboot”. While the hardcore Trek fans love to trash it, it brought a lot of new fans into the fold and its simply a fun ride. The Trek franchise really needed that as the Next Generation films (along with that semi-silly Voyager and DS9 nonsense) nearly killed it all off.
Now “ Into Darkness” was awful. JJ was pretty much given a clean slate for that film and chose to retell an existing story. That was flat out stupid, lazy writing and started to tarnish Star Trek on the big screen yet again. I hope they turn things around in the next one. After JJ ruins Star Wars, Trek will be the only big time, big screen sci-fi franchise left :-).