At one point Shin-Zen or whatever his name was says something about the echo replacing the voice or something like that. Pay attention, that’s the key point of this movie. It’s an echo of what a Star Trek movie should be, which should basically be about a team of heroic astronauts so close they’re like family having some kind of adventure in outer space aboard a ship called Enterprise that is their home. This movie is some kind of mess about everybody going off in their own direction intruding on somebody else’s adventure on his world and his ship. The Enterprise is reduced to a place that nobody wants to be. You take control of the bridge so I can go off and do my thing…no, YOU take control of the bridge so I can go off and do MY thing…NO, YOU take control of the…thank GOD they cut Wil Wheaton’s part to a non-speaking background presence or Wesley would have wound up the ranking officer on the bridge by the time it was over with! The budget went into loving CGI rendering of every tiny piece of metallic debris that gets sheared off and sent flying away in glorious spinning detail. It sure didn’t go into any light bulbs for the sets, you’d think even the Enterprise was Mammoth Cave.

THe Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate is now over in my mind and Star Trek just won. Too bad it took replacing the last shot for a decent Star Trek movie with a Star Wars wanna-be to make the point.