This one isn't. It's not just a re-boot of the entire Star Trek universe, it's closer to a TV Battlestar Galactica-style "re-imagining", but IMHO better done. (I am not a big fan of the new Galactica--too dark, political, and frankly boring for my taste.)
In the new Trek movie, the characterizations are really, really strong--strong enough to carry what I think is actually a rather pedestrian plot. But the plot isn't the story here, it's the characters. And, the plot is consistent enough to explain why this Star Trek is different from the previous TV series and movies. But this one is about the characters--Kirk, Spock, McCoy mainly.
And yeah, they got Kirk right. "Give them everything we've got!" No PC namby-pamby Jean-Luc Picard yawnfest here. Kirk's character is inclined to shoot first and ask questions later, just as he should be.
It's a whole new Star Trek. Forget TNG, forget Deep Space Nine, forget Voyager, forget "Enterprise." For that matter, forget most of what happened in the original TV series.
If you ever liked Star Trek, I think you'll really like the new movie.
I am a big fan of the original series and I hated all the wussy spinoffs. Only a very few of the movies were any good most notably the second and the fourth.