OK first off, James Tiberius Kirk was not born in space but was born on earth in Riverside Iowa. This change had nothing to do with the time change. Starfleet did not allow families on vessels until the time of TNG simply because they did not have the room or facilities for families remember this was early in the time of Starfleet and the ships and quarters were not very big. Also where in blue blazes was James’ elder brother Sam “George Samuel Kirk” birth 2228.

No problem in killing off George Kirk to change the life direction of James T. Kirk I thought that was pretty ok.

Even with the time change stuff Christopher Pike was not the First Commander of the Enterprise but was the second, Robert April commanded first and in fact he oversaw construction of her. So what happened there this change kind of bugged me.

Ok here is another that bugged me, They depicted that Kirk, Uhura, Chekov and Sulu were of the same age group wrong answer there. Not quite, Sulu was 4 years younger than Kirk, now they noted in the movie that Chekov was only 17 and that he was a bit of a genius. Wrong answer there also.

Pavel Chekov was born in 2245 and if the dates of 2233 Kirks birth and 2255 Kirk Joins starfleet, 2258 Nero attack Vulcan etc.. that would make actually have made Chekov 13 years old not 17.

I do not have a problem with time line changes due to Nero going back in time but they needed to stick with the Star Trek Reality of 2233 and before to maintain integrity. There were just too many inconsistencies here for me to just accept as being affected by Nero going back in time. If you are going to change things change them where they are at least acceptable.

I really loved all the little tie-ins and inside jokes. I missed a lot of them the first time, but I’ll be paying more attention next time.

OHHH and I hated the PCing up of the “to boldly go where no man has gone before” into “where no ONE has gone before”