Thoughts on the new Star Trek Movie [SPOILER BIG TIME]

The new Star Trek movie is a big fat cheat. That's right, I said it, a CHEAT!

Why, J.J. Abrams? I like so many of the things you do! Why must you ruin my favorite (albeit geekiest) franchise that I love?

Okay, so the good things about the movie first:

1. The technological level of everything made sense
2. The actors did a good job of being the characters correctly without doing impressions of the older actors (besides a couple of choice moments by the young Kirk which were hilarious)
3. The writing, cinematography, and acting were good
4. There were enough ridiculous scenarios for it to be a Star Trek movie (i.e., skydiving OUT OF A SPACE SHIP to have a bar-room quality brawl with no breathing gear on top of a metal disc no more than 20 feet in diameter hanging in the upper atmosphere of a planet ABOVE A GIANT COLUMN OF FIRE)

So, in itself, it was a good movie. Here are the things that bother me, ordered from least to greatest:

1. As far as I know, there is no freaking evidence in the Original Series to suggest that all of those characters were in Starfleet Academy together. There was not a kind of "college friends" camraderie about them in the series, they were just friends. If I'm wrong about this, comment below, but I don't think I'm wrong.
2. Spock was WAY too friggin' emotional. Does no one remember that Data was placed in Star Trek: The Next Generation as the "Spock" character? And he had no emotions AT ALL! The reason why scenes like the end of Star Trek II were so powerful was because Spock never showed emotion, so when he did, it really had you by the heartstrings. A relationship with Uhura? Beating people up when he's not in the middle of pon farr? Emotions MY ASS. They wrote a totally different character here.
3. WHAT THE HELL WITH THE TIME TRAVELING FREAKIN' AGAIN, YOU GUYS???! Okay, so having seen the movie, here is the timeline of Star Trek as I understand it now:
- All the series and movies happen in the ways that we watched them
- AFTER THAT, old Spock and a crazy man go back in time and start effing shit up
- The movie takes place in the past, as they're effing shit up, but there's no way to CHANGE the shit that they've effed up, so now the timeline is changed forever
Well congratulations, writers and producers. Instead of taking the time to write a good script about people and places that exist in this fictitious universe, you just pulled the old "let's go back in time so we can write whatever the hell we want" trick. The great part about this plan is that the fans can't be mad that you didn't follow a timeline, because for all intents and purposes there's no timeline to follow. Furthermore, it opens up the franchise for a whole new set of series and movies, with all-new casts, in this new timeline, which for all intents and purposes hasn't happened yet.

The thing that bothers me most is that they made like they were working really hard to make it a Star Trek movie that people could be proud of, that fit into the universe we're used to and is in the spirit of the Original Series. They didn't work hard to make things right, they just sidestepped all their historical obligations with time travel. They made Jim Kirk look like kind of a dick, mostly. They made Spock too friggin' emotional. The only thing this movie does in the spirit of the franchise is offer us giant plot cop-outs and set us up to give more of our money to Paramount for a product that is, as advertised, "Not [our parents'] Star Trek."