Killing Vulcan, Reviving Star Trek

I, we, are stunned. Star Trek, the new movie released last week, is not a bombastic, cinematic scribble. Rather, it obliterates the known conventions of the series and movies, while maintaining a tether to the nature and soul of the original characters.

The story itself was not the most pleasing, but rather just a foundation upon which to expand the series. Time travel usually never works for any movie viewer with an ounce of skepticism. Often it creates more questions than it answers. You osit wondering, "If time travel thus created an alternate reality or world, why am I not watching THAT movie, because this one rots." 

But here it was a handy tool to allow the director (and particularly future directors) the freedom to create.  We got re-introduced to all our favorite characters, but with new young faces.  And, as we all suspected during many a late night watch of the original Star Trek, someone had tapped Lieutenant Niota Uhura's. That it was Spock here fleshed out what the first series merely implied. 

I don't know that I would see the movie again, as I've read some have done, but I was pleasantly surprised at how closely the characters matched the originals while still managing a fresh take. 

So many films hue to formula, and this one is no different. But it works and thus the Star Trek franchise has new life that should carry it to the next film; I actually have a desire to see "what happens next" to the characters. 

Frankly I am stunned someone could obliterate Vulcan and that I would be okay with that.