Also, did you notice the Kal Penn cameo?
What? No! Where was he?!
He was a blue shirt when, I believe, Nero contacted the Enterprise and the scene went from shot to shot of crew reactions.
I actually think the Star Trek and going back to the original crew made the movie campier than it should have been.
You lost me. What parts were "campy", besides the overt humor?
The whole weakness to the movie, for me, was them assembling much younger versions of the original crew, putting them all in their final roles on the show, and giving them all something to do. In a movie full of plot holes, those were the most obvious. The only ones that really worked were Spock and McCoy. Everyone else, especially Kirk, was a real stretch. And this movie did exactly what I didn't want it to do. They pushed Kirk directly into the captain's chair just because he was captain in the original show. Had this been just a continuation of Trek without going back to the originals, I think it would have been a lot better because it wouldn't have had to do all the weak plot devices to copy the original 'formula'. But Paramount and Abrams wanted to give us Dawson's Trek instead.
