Agreed. I enjoyed the original cast Star Trek movies, probably more than watching the old TV shows. I never got into the Next Gen spin offs. I had high hopes that the new movies with Chris Pine would be exciting forays into the early years of the original 5 year mission that the TV show was already in progress on. The actors all had great potential but the movie scripts ruined it all. Instead of coming up with original stories in deep space exploration, everything comes back to crashing the Enterprise and saving the Earth.
Legally, as it turned out, they were not allowed to use the timeline/stories, etc. of the Trek universe. They were effectively just using the names and little else. Everything had to be changed, even the ship. If the AbramsFauxTrek had been the original series, it would’ve been utterly forgettable.