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Loved the film completely.
And I can say that as a long time Trek fan, starting with TOS (not with TNG, yes, I´m that old), I think the franchise could not be in better hands. It is still absolutely typical STAR TREK, the way Gene Roddenberry had envisioned it.
Abrams really managed to make a movie that is absolutely honoring the original STAR TREK while giving it a fresh spin. For me, it succeeded in every aspect.
Concerning the score - I must say in the cinema in which I saw the film the score was NOT drowned out by sound effects. I love this score and consider it one of the best Star Trek scores yet (even if it cannot approach Goldsmith, of course).
Oh, and for those guys who love to hate this movie and Abrams and Lindelof (and obviously have the time to discuss ad nauseam those plot points which they did not like/understand) - do what William Shatner proposed.
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Haha! Good punch!
And, of course, let me backtrack on this. Everyone can have his/her opinion.
I just find it strange when people discuss "plot holes" which are not there if you follow the story closely. (Even the before-mentioned "Alice Eve undresses for no reason" is ridiculous because she actually changes her clothes for a particular mission which follows in the next sequence).
Also, if someone hates this new "Star Trek"-film for plot hole without considering all the plot holes from TOS onwards, that´s just... illogical, right?
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Loved the film completely.
And I can say that as a long time Trek fan, starting with TOS (not with TNG, yes, I´m that old), I think the franchise could not be in better hands. It is still absolutely typical STAR TREK, the way Gene Roddenberry had envisioned it.
Abrams really managed to make a movie that is absolutely honoring the original STAR TREK while giving it a fresh spin. For me, it succeeded in every aspect.
Concerning the score - I must say in the cinema in which I saw the film the score was NOT drowned out by sound effects. I love this score and consider it one of the best Star Trek scores yet (even if it cannot approach Goldsmith, of course)
And you were doing so well up to that point! 
True. Sorry.
But really, Giacchino´s score has grown on me considerably - and now I do find it remarkable!
Of course, I should add Horner´s work to Goldsmith´s legendary achievement that both Giacchino-scores cannot approach.
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I sure hope he had the same blood type. Reminds me of the Fred Saberhagen Dracula books where the main reason Dracula kept draining Lucy is because of that idiot Van Helsing killing her with wrong blood type.
What are you worried about? Bones tested it on a tribble first, didn't he?
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It is still absolutely typical STAR TREK, the way Gene Roddenberry had envisioned it.
Are you sure? While I would never presume to guess what Gene Roddenberry would have said, I'm pretty sure he'd have strongly opposed the fact that the central plot was triggered by villainly perpetrated by a Starfleet Officer (Admiral Marcus) on behalf of a clandestine Starfleet organisation (Section 31) just as he opposed the idea of Starfleet officers being racist and conspiratorial in Star Trek 6.
That's not to say that those elements are new to this film (the latter was born out of DS9) or necessary in some ways but don't go saying that this movie holds true to Roddenberry's ideals because it doesn't.
And yes I'm aware that he was opposed to every single Trek film since TMP.
As far as I know about Roddenberry´s objections from KHAN onwards, it mainly had to do with him being frozen out of the development process. Which definitely would have been brutal for any creator of something that successful.
But having one villain in Starfleet, probably manipulating the organisation, for reasons that appear to him very sensible (the unavoidable war with the Klingons must be led by people like him under moral conditions that he determines), does not discredit all of Starfleet - so I think that Roddenberry would have agreed here, especially since Kirk does not kill Khan as ordered and tries to find a solution against Marcus´ attempt at a cover-up .
So I do think that everything in STID is true to Roddenberry´s central ideas.
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