1258 minutes/20 hours and 58 minutes/0.87 days. that's how long i've spent watching star trek films over the last week or two. i've enjoyed it, mostly, but there's certainly a couple i won't rush to be seeing again. the 132 minutes of the first film is definitely low on the list of rewatches. it's the longest of the lot and boy does it feel it. this isn't a review of star trek: the motion picture though. i've done that. the main thing i'm left with from this star trek is that it was a well needed shot in the arm for the series. the films had fallen into a rut. they weren't films anymore, they were extended tv episoides. someone needed to come along and shake it up; that's exactly what jar jar abrams has done. this star trek has been pushed the series into a more believeably futuristic vision than ever before. i grew up watching the next generation and it's strange how that has dated in look. the last two films from that era certainly went some way to updating but it never really went with it whole heartedly. there was still too much restraint. what i don't really understand is; why reboot? why not go 100 years on from the next generation and tell a story from an even further future? there's no denying that kirk, spock, uhura et al are great characters but do we need to see them all again? maybe keeping those characters was the only way abrams was able to be as inventive as he was. i'm in no place to second guess the guy. he's the successful director, i'm just an internet critic with no film industry experience. in the grand scheme of things i guess it doesn't matter. the film works and i can't wait to see into darkness.