Wow, so they decide to go through the trouble of rebooting the franchise...just to introduce the most tired of tired plot devices from Star Trek: the Time Travel story.Rotten Tomatoes wrote:This week, the writers of the new Star Trek reboot revealed on TV the movie's premise, which is so cool that it is worthy of this week's top story, even though I generally focus on movies that are fresher, farther from release, than one that's already wrapped filming. The gist of the story is that it follows Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, back in time from the franchise's "current" setting, as Romulans attempt to go back in time to kill the young Captain James T. Kirk before he goes on to do all those things that messed up the Romulans' many plans. So, J.J. Abrams has indeed come up with a clever way to bridge the "old" franchise to his new revamp, and since there is time travelling involved, there's even the possibility that things can be changed, meaning everything we thought we knew could be completely different going forward. If the movie is AWESOME, this is great news. If not, it could be perceived as the nail in the Star Trek coffin. I, however, am optimistic, and think this could be the sign that the reboot is more clever and better structured than we're used to as of late.
I think we can pretty much write this movie off at this point.