I must be one of those odd men out who thought it was an average film, but great fan fare.

I can respect that as a legitimate reason. I didn't see much ST prior to the film, but what I did like about original and Next Gen was they both created new character storylines. With this reboot's case, so much is spent regurgitating to the point of no risk feeling involved.

In fact the riskiest aspect I felt from the 2009 film was the wormhole tied in with the writer's "sci-fi'ing" the plot of Top Gun/Days of Thunder/etc.