The truth is that we found ourselves missing the old cast, but most
audiences won't
care: Star Trek works fine when taken on its own terms as a
modern special effects - driven action flick.
A recent trend in screenwriting has been to take the plot of a time - honored work, usually a literary classic, set it in
modern times, and inject a sense of hipness to attract an
audience that may not be as familiar to the story to
care how unoriginal it all is.