This was that last movie my mom and I went to see in the theatre together. She cultivated my love for STAR TREK, and so we were both going in with phasers set on judgmental. We both ended up loving it. It really is a very entertaining film, and the actors got the spirit of the characters down, if not every inflection.
That's not to say it's not flawed. Gone is the intellectual aspects and classical references that made the original so great. Instead we have an action film set in space, because Abrams said flat out from the beginning that he wasn't a fan, and wanted to see what he could incorporate from STAR WARS. We don't get the brilliant Kirk/Spock/McCoy bantering that we all knew and loved, where Spock acted as Kirk's logical conscience and McCoy the emotional one. I still haven't seen BEYOND, so I don't know if this improved in that film, but even INTO DARKNESS didn't really get into the friendship those three all had.
But I still really like the movie, even for its flaws.