Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
It's one of those things with trying to redo the classics.... they've "reinvented" Bond in the past few films, and in that case, I didn't appreciate it as much. It's not that they didn't follow the same old recipe for making the film, it's that they lost some of the essence of Bond when they turned him basically into a Jason Bourne clone. It was Bond's nonchalant attitude and suaveness that made him notable, and they kind of lost that part of his character.
Taking the boring action scenes and tedious dialogue out of Star Trek, on the other hand, isn't a bad thing, because those are less about the style of the series and more about the original series just being often boring and tedious.
The new Bond may be closer to Ian Flemings vision, but in any 'Bond' movie where he doesn't nail the hot chick, drive a cool car or have any sexy gadgets, he's just another Bourne clone to me too.
The new Trek however stays very close to the original, at least when it comes to the characters. Kirk is still a reckless, ass-kicking, green-alien nailing SOB, Bones is still a smartass, Scotty is still a technical wizard. The only big difference is that Spock is younger in these films and still trying to fight his human emotions, and occasionally they get the better of him. But those scenes are excellent and makes for a far better Spock than the automaton Nimoy played most of the time.
The difference in Trek this go round is that history changes a bit and things will play out differently in some ways.
CKA Uber 
