Honestly, my Star Trek experiences are limited to the newer movies (TNG timeline), so I don't really care if it stays true to every bit of the canon lore or not, as long as the movie delivers entertainment. I mean, sure, if they altered core elements of the lore, like what's up and down, etc., but I don't care much about minor things like personalities being out of sync with the personalities in the original series. Like someone pointed out: this remake takes place in an alternate universe with an alternate timeline. Fans of chaos theory would probably argue that the alternate universe is too similar to the original one.
As for the lens flares, I read somewhere that Abrams realized he overdid it on the first movie and was going to tone it down on the second. Sounds like it didn't happen? Not that I mind - I kind of liked it.
Anyway, looking forward to it. Been a while since we had a good sci-fi flick - not counting Iron Man 3.
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