Honestly, I'm not sure I would've liked it better if it HAD been a faithful prequel to the TOS. I can't see any way that the movie would have worked for me! So for what it was, it was fine. It wasn't an embarrassment like I thought it might be. If that's what Star Trek is now, I'm fine with it, but I'm also not too interested in it, either. (I really do wish they'd picked another actor for Kirk...someone prettier. *is totally shallow*)

I was pretty horrified by the destruction of Vulcan as well. What's going to happen when Spock goes through Pon Farr? Oh, maybe that's what Uhura is there for. :P