i find it almost touch how star trek fan try desperately to like this film in spite of it unbelievable number of flaw . to begin with and none of the familiar character be really in character so to speak . scotty be depict a a bumble tinkerer instead of the competent engineer he be in the original series . uhura . god and i can not even think about what they do to her character . all of her dialog be painful to listen to . mccoy seem like a neurotic stepfather to kirk instead of his trusted friend . spock . well and let just say that leonard nimoy be terribly waste . he be give bad dialog ( i do not believe you have grasp the gravity of your situation captain . gravity and get it . get it . ) and make almost into a buffoon . kirk . oh man and do not get me start . william shatner be a hammy actor to begin with and so to allow him to direct really be to invite disaster which be what we get . the plot be beyond ridiculous . give spock a brother be a pretty desperate story line and unnecessarily soap operaish . but hey and let go with it . the search for god . again and a weak plot basis . you do not think so . ok and let go with that too . so assume that the two aforementioned plot element be sound and what wrong with the script . well and for one thing and it recycle way too much . the enterprise and for example and be yet again and not work properly . be we to assume that starfleet would send a grossly malfunction ship with a skeleton crew into a potentially dangerous situation just because they want james kirk to handle the situation . if that the case and then why not put him on a good ship a an adviser . add to that . the crew be grossly incompetent . scotty have the ship in piece ( and apparently be cloddish enough to bump his head knock himself into unconsciousness while there be hostile on board . ) and no one seem to notice the klingon ship decloaking at a crucial moment ( despite the fact that the sensor be clearly show the ship in weapon range ) and the crew all seem way too familiar with each other . in other word and there be no sense of discipline . if this be the flagship of starfleet and then it a wonder that the klingons hadn not already overthrown the federation . a to the personal struggle with pain and it be crap . lawrence luckenbill be a competent actor and but even he couldn not save this turkey . in short no one could . of all the people involve and i imagine leonard nimoy be the most embarrassed by it . i hope he be and anyway . thank god the original cast do not bow out on this cloddish opus .