Oh, I agree with you, Anne, especially about point 3! I've since come across two other reviews, both very interesting. One (by a young man, I believe, on imdb), pointed out that this movie seemed to want to ditch Star Trek altogether in favor of Star Wars. I think he had a point. The woman was even more interesting; she said exactly what I'd been feeling; she enjoyed it, but it worried her that she did, because she felt there was something mean and thoughtless at the center of the movie. Here is the link to her review - I'd be interested to know what you think.
http://www.counterpunch.org/mihic05292009.html
Anyway, I showed my sister your comment, and she was laughing out loud, especially at your description of the Romulan ship. I may message you privately about the counterpunch review and things I found actually dismaying in this movie - even while I was watching it. The short version is exactly what you said. I would have preferred something that fit the original Trek, and did not discard everything generous and idealistic about that vision. (I personally think the Federation could not have existed without Vulcan - so it won't exist in this iteration. I really resent that. And the casual way the genocide of the entire species - for Vulcans and Romulans are the same species - was presented, was chilling.)
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Anyway, I showed my sister your comment, and she was laughing out loud, especially at your description of the Romulan ship. I may message you privately about the counterpunch review and things I found actually dismaying in this movie - even while I was watching it. The short version is exactly what you said. I would have preferred something that fit the original Trek, and did not discard everything generous and idealistic about that vision. (I personally think the Federation could not have existed without Vulcan - so it won't exist in this iteration. I really resent that. And the casual way the genocide of the entire species - for Vulcans and Romulans are the same species - was presented, was chilling.)