I was not at all let down. I've always viewed the new Star Trek series to be less of a reboot thanks to the fact it runs alongside another fragment of time, thus it hasn't changed anything. No matter what anyone decides to do with this Trek, they aren't telling you that women did not steal spocks brain, or scotty got jiggy with M'ress or that anything else did not happened. It all still happened. Its still and until something amazingly bad happens it is all still canon.

So I'm able to walk into a theater, and enjoy a setting of Trek where Kirk had his apointment to the Enterprise to soon, while still young and brash. Where Spock has suffered the loss of his mother and his planet. Where a whole galaxy had a ship from the near 24th century show up, be scanned detailed, captured by klingons, who then study said ship interrogate the crew for 25 odd years and the federation through espionage are able to lift some tech specs themselves and have somewhat jumped the tech level quite a few notches that can let me happily accept all the differences in minutia.

So what did I think of Into Darkness? I thought it was a very good sequal to this "timelines" Enterprise crew members adventure. Everything is again happily explained, they keep the "Slow pan while we fetishize the Enterprise" clips down and overall was quite thrilled with it. Except for one part BULLSHIT which I'll lightly touch on but first off the thing that made me Trek squeel the most.

During Starfleet office scene the camera pans somewhat quickly along a series of ships. One of the ships on the said desk is none other than a NX-01, for the unknowing it was the first warp 5 class vessel humanity put toghether and the starring vessel of Star Trek Enterprise.

Why did this tickle me the most? Because say what you want about lense flare, or super smug kirk with a chip on his shoulder or what have you but it showed alot of respect and forethought to include it on that shelf. I took it as "Look we may decide on some goofy shit, but we respect this franchise". Plus me and my brother love Scott Bakula.

About the biggest complaint I had is literally the thing that ties up the adventure to make sure the five year mission happens. Without spoiling, SOMETHING happens. Something bad. Then literally something that was hinted at in the first 15 minutes, slightly touched on halfway through, and then literally thrown at you when its needed to save someone they literally just JAZZ HANDS smash cut two weeks and its time to boldy go where no man has gone before.

:I

But it was good bullshit. Why? Because its Star Trek. Bullshit happened ALL the fucking time. For christ sake in the original series Kirk convinced klingons to LAUGH and tell jokes to spread good cheer to make a space entity that could controls MATTER and physically heal dead people back to full health to get it off their ship.

I cant damn this movies use of bullshit because so far its the thing thats been truest to TOS. World ending bad stuff! Last 15 minutes of the show JAZZ HANDS SAVING BULLSHIT.

And I fucking loved it. I only file it under a complaint because its one of those "eye roll and point knowingly while going Ooo you guys..." type moments. Its Star Trek. The primary cast and crew will never be killed off until the last season or passing of the movie series to the next generation. Unless your a blonde security chief, then you'll just do cameo's and become a villian explained by timey wimey dimensional bullshit.