To boldly change

I finally saw the new Star Trek movie (Gods, I'm late to the game, yesno?). Since this has been out for months, I am not going to spoiler cut.
I will say this - they have found a rather good reset button, and instead of hiding it, put it out into the open and made it a plot point. Wow. Does this remind me of comic books or what. So everything we knew about Star Trek is now retconned? Up to and including Voyager? Although probably not Enterprise, more's the pity.
They chose their actors wisely methinks, especially Karl Urban as Bones, and Zachary Quinto as Spock. I don't know if I like what they did to Chekov, and Uhura, well... hm.
The Enterprise redesign. The outside's cool. The bridge looks as if Apple vomited on it. The rest of the ship... looks a lot more low tech than the original. I have the feeling this look is going to be dated a lot faster than the 1960s one, for some reason.
On the whole, this was quite a romp, although except for the names and a few character traits, this could really have been any other science fiction movie. The surface is there, but it doesn't feel like Star Trek. And, as if to drive the point home, the only time I became emotionally involved was at the end, when Spock's voice says: "Space... the final frontier", etc. And then, my emotional involvement was a tear in my eye.