Sadly, as much as I enjoyed it in the cinema, J J Abrams' rebooted Star Trek didn't really hold up nearly so well the second time around. Instead of allowing me to notice more things that I liked, knowing what was going to happen just allowed the problems to become more and more glaring.
A lot of these problems are fairly minor things that only a science fiction geek would even stop to consider (the revolving barrels on the phasers started to bug me for a number of reasons, for example) and several would probably only bother fans of the original show or are a matter of personal taste (the reduction of Scotty to little more than ineffective comic relief being a personal bugbear), but there are some more serious issues as well. What really started to spoil things for me was the story structure.
Pretty much the whole second half of the movie relies on the fact that not only does young Spock uncharacteristically choose to maroon Kirk on a nearby planet instead of just throwing him in the brig (surely a far more logical option), he also 'just happens' to drop Kirk off within walking distance of the original universe Spock. Hanging a major plot development on a pure coincidence has been seen as poor storytelling since at least 18 BC, when Horace's Ars Poetica instructed poets that they should never resort to a 'deus ex machina', and what was true for the ancient Greeks remains just as true today. Throw in the fact that both the antagonist's motivation for committing genocide and his approach to doing so become less convincing (especially as the reason for the whole reboot) the more you actually think about them, and the whole thing starts to fall apart fairly quickly.
My biggest concern, though, is that the movie lacks most of the core values and ideals that make Star Trek what it is - or at least, what it was. The characters face no significant moral, ethical or philosophical challenges in the course of the whole film, there aren't any particularly interesting science fiction ideas, and the lack of Trek's clearly stated humanist values becomes more and more apparent as the action sequences - gripping though they may be - rush by.
It's perhaps a testament to Abram's skill as a director - as well as the generally excellent casting and effects work - that I was only vaguely aware of most of these concerns the first time I saw Star Trek, when I was as swept up in the spectacle and carried along by the pacing as most of the professional critics seem to have been, and in that sense the movie definitely works as a 'summer blockbuster'. But a big, dumb roller-coaster ride is all that it really is - once you start to scratch the slick and glossy surface, it rapidly becomes apparent that there's precious little underneath.
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