There are quite a few "Star Trek" fans who have a serious bone to pick with writer, producer, and director J.J. Abrams, myself among them. After delivering the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot — which created the Kelvin timeline and deviated from the canon set by the original series, but was surprisingly entertaining — he had earned a bit of goodwill. Unfortunately, that goodwill was phasered out of existence with the sequel, 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness."
While the first Abrams "Star Trek" had a few issues, they could mostly be ignored because it was a pretty darn fun adventure with some truly brilliant casting . It was a little more bombastic and action-packed than most of "Star Trek," drawing heavily from Abrams's other true love, "Star Wars," but it mostly worked. So when hardcore "Trek"

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