[headdie]

If you exclude the energy lifeforms and random stuff like that, and just think about aliens with bodies as we have

Oh, OK... fair enough...

But even then, I guess while most of them looked human, mostly because that cost less, they were really there to either reflect some aspects of us or to introduce a new and alien concept that was still similiar to us. Like when those one aliens abduct Picard and replace him with a lookalike to learn about hierarchy and command structure. Sure, they looked human-like enough, but they served the role of exploring something about the human condition anyway, and they were sufficiently alien in their ways to make the thing interesting.

They went as far as hand waving that one with an episode with the Federation represented by the Ent-D, the Klingons and the Romulans following down clues to a secret, each beliving it's something different, the Romulans think it will be a new amazing power source, the Klingons a powerful weapons and I am not sure about the Federation.

any way they follow their clues down and after a stand off beam down to a planet and are confronted by an artifact which turns out to be a holo recording of a humanoid figure which explains that they were the first sentient race and all they found was a barren universe and as they decided to spread their DNA over many life capable worlds which encouraged the life that developed to follow their basic DNA structure and thus most sentient life in the galaxy is humanoid.

[MP-Ryan]

The science aside - it was truly atrocious and the whole plot backstory of how Romulus got wiped out was abysmal - I really did enjoy the reboot.  Mostly because the character writing was reasonably clever and entertaining and it kept moving along - unlike, say, every TNG movie they made (hilarious, because TNG was my favorite series yet had pretty awful movies).  So I'll go see this.  JJ Abrams also did Fringe, so I <3 him anyway.

[Flipside]

If the thread were called 'Babylon 5 - Into Darkness', I would

But that would require the world to be even slightly fair.

Must admit, I would be a lot more excited to hear of a new JMS-Produced B5 movie than a Star Trek one. JMS has actually stated that he'd only consider picking up the story again if it was treated to a decent budget and directorial freedom. I would love for that to happen, but to be honest I don't see it happening

I suppose my final line on the new Star Trek movie is, "Will I see it?" Yes, most likely, and I'll most likely enjoy it, but I'll approach it with much the same attitude as I will Star Wars VII, expecting fun, and taking whatever else canon that comes along as a bonus nod to my generation.