[Calculon]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the film without layering on some of the more thundering spoilers.

My concern is more where the series can go from here: particularly, will they be able to begin exploring Big Ideas the way the series used to, while still maintaining the exciting pace of this movie?

Cut down the scenes of Kirk running from place to place - or if you keep them, help to establish the geography of the ships/planets/installations - and add in some "thinking scenes" - much of Star Trek had to do with the crew voicing the various sides of the debate in question. "Are we right to build technology that can create or destroy a planet? Do the ghosts of the past deserve a place in the new world, setting aside our differences?"

Still - hell of a spaceship movie, and I generally had a lot of fun without feeling *too* offended, intellectually.