There you go again. It WAS Star Trek, it was more Trek than ANY of the Trek movies since 4 and more Trek than ANY of the shows since TAS. It was great fun SF with out stupid boring whining UN talk. And yes they failed to explain a bunch of stuff, just like TOS. That’s what made it so clearly and purely REAL Trek. Real Trek doesn’t drown in explanation, real Trek gets on with the story. It wasn’t canon worship, for which all the sane Trekkies jump up and down in joy.
Hey, man, if you like incoherent shoot-em-ups in outer space, Faux Trek is for you. Even the BAD TOS episodes made sense (even if they were silly) and cutting out explanations and motivations because you think it is “boring” IS bad filmmaking. Pardon me all over the place if I’d like to know what’s going on instead of a jump-cut to the next action sequence. If Abrams had done TWOK, he’d have cut it down to 5 minutes - the Eel scene, the Reliant vs. Enterprise scene and the Genesis Detonation and that would’ve been it. Besides, you keep mistaking me for a big TNG fan, I’m not. I’m a TOS fan. I wasn’t very big on the TNG films, they were OK, but nothing more. I will say it on and on, it was NOT a Trek film. I found it subpar as a film and outright insulting to Trek fans. A middle finger from Star Wars fanbois.