I had worried that the new Star Trek movie would suck horribly...on the scale of Star Trek 5. This one ranks up there with Star Trek 2 in terms of awesomeness. I don't like that they pretty much tossed out canon and set it in an alternate timeline, but I do like that it gave them freedom to write stories without having to fact-check them against 40 years of canon. The characters were all familiar. The actors all clicked as the characters. My biggest issue is that engineering looks too industrial. It looks more appropriate for engineering on the Titanic than a starship.