This is a superficially great movie-beautifully shot, great cast, well acted, decent script, and is well paced. But there is something safe and antiseptic about it. It seems to be made by a master movie-maker, a master craftsman, but not a master story-teller or an artist. It lacks great scenes, great quotes, great moments, and though it grazes these at times, one suspects it does through exhuming the greatness of a previous auteurs vision, through mining the sparkling dynamic between Kirk, Spock and their gang. Ironically it lauds Kirks risk-taking maverick qualities, whilst sorely lacking these itself, a movie seemingly made by numbers. It’s an imitation of a great movie, and though a great imitation, not great in itself, only superficially so, ultimately leaving no lasting residue in your soul. Still worth a watch though.