Okay, Spock is hot.

I watched the new Star Trek movie tonight (for the first time, unlike some of the people I watched it with!), and enjoyed it. To cover the territory of most of the reaction I've seen to the film so far, Zachary Quinto as young Spock is uncanny and by far the cutest member of the cast.

The film was fun; I think the feel was as true to the old Star Trek as would've been achievable this decade. I found it felt less epic than I was expecting, though. It felt more like an action film than I remember the others being. The updated look of everything was very nice, even if it was obscured by shaking and violent lighting a lot of the time. There were lots of fun and/or funny nods to previous incarnations of Star Trek, and things flowed along at a brisk and generally exciting pace.

( spoiler, politics, cut. )