Actually, the reboot corrects a lot of things....why was such a powerful ship not in fleet or escorted (It was damaged.) Why did Kirk get to keep it? (Pike pushed for him, it's an experiment, and the holding bin for all the misfits/halfbreeds/irritating kids. Look at them: womanizing brawler, mixed Race, wierdo LARPER (swords? You have got to be kidding!), Russian whizkid, engineering know-it-all..."Cupcake Losehispants and the Half Breed Half Baked Crew") Besides, the ship was damaged fairly severely, we've lost the majority of our acting captains, and now we can push an appropriations bill through and build a whole bunch of ships based on the knowledge that Spock the Elder brought back.

The movie producers walked a fine line between making a modern movie and keeping to the letter of the canon, and history, and I think came out ahead.

I'm just bemused by where they will go with the Holocaust/formation of Israel angle that was so strongly represented at the end of the movie. And I agree with Kate Elliot--it would have been nice if the women had actual roles, other than the shuttle officer. ("Sit. Down. Or I will Make you sit down.")

Still..they got all the characters in, flashing action, derring do, and even a reason why Spock would logically let Kirk lead: Kirk's Intuition proves more useful than cold logic. And that way, he doesn't have to fight Kirk. And he gets the catharsis of watching EVERYONE beat up James, and James keep smiling. All is right in the world!

Pity about the green chick, though, she was hot.