Star Trek movie: Hopes and fears

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I thought it would be fun to write my hopes and fears for the upcoming Star Trek movie, since I'm somewhat of a Star Trek nerd.  From what I've read so far, it looks like this movie will shake things up in the Star Trek universe quite a bit.  It also involves time travel, which is always an annoyingly disruptive addition to Star Trek movies and episodes.  I just wanted to write this so that I can do a retrospective after I see the movie.

My hopes:

• I hope that this movie won't shatter the utopian ideals that make Star Trek what it is.  Star Trek has always been a utopian view of the future, and what we can accomplish if we're rational and moral and always strive toward self-improvement.  What I don't want is for this movie to reimagine the universe as dirty and gritty as a whole.  Granted, the enemies can be representations of this, and characters can confront these sides of themselves.
• I hope this movie doesn't follow the usual pattern of trying to squeeze emotion out of Vulcans, to make them more human -- with the exception of Spock, who is half human.  I'm fine with them playing that out to death which they inevitably will do.  But don't keep this human-centric view that humans are somehow the pinnacle of good behavior (overall), and everything else is an extreme (extremely logical, extremely greedy, extremely violent, extremely devious, etc.)
• I hope that the enemies won't be contrived, stereotypical "bad guys", but the previews make me think that they will.  I really like the Romulans as an example of "bad guys" who don't look outwardly evil; they could just as easily look the same and play the role of an ally.  Their ships don't look like giant spikey arachnids or some other contrived ship that the bad guy must use.
• Personal hope: I hope there won't be many if any Klingons.  I've never liked brutish, backwards races, like the Orcs in Warcraft.  Sorry, I guess that makes me racist.  The idea of Klingons somehow achieving spaceflight is about as believable as baboons building houses.
• I hope like hell that they won't antagonize logic the way Star Trek sometimes does.  I don't want to see another fallacious example of logic "failing" where gut instinct prevails.  Gene Roddenbury was pretty good at having logic trump blind emotion in most cases, but it's not a popular idea in movies/TV; we like having the easy solutions prevail.  We like the idea that we can "go with our gut" and not have to analyze anything, especially if it involves removing emotion to get an objective point of view.
• Related to the above, I hope this movie is not "faithy" like later Star Trek series often were.

I actually don't mind (and would prefer) some changes to the Star Trek universe.  I would be okay with...

• the story removing some of the superstitious-esque elements of Vulcan culture. 
• a lack of Klingons in the movie.
• Vulcans who actually applied an understanding of emotions in their decision-making, rather than being emotionally distant and then having the negative consequences of this somehow being blamed on "logic".
• A  makeover of the ship to make it look less cheesy, e.g. there's no need for CRT screens.
• Corrections to blatantly wrong/bad/infeasible science.  I can't think of a great example, but I remember an episode of voyager in which Tom Paris and Nelix were stranded on an alien planet at night, and they used a phaser to make a large rock red hot in order to keep them warm at night, yet they were concerned about conserving the power of their flashlights.  Really?  Do you know how much energy it must have taken to make that rock red hot versus the energy required for those flashlights?  Nevermind the silly idea that a few centuries from now, flashlight battery technology won't have progressed much.
• ...Vulcans not having super strength.
• actually enabling ships to rotate about all axes.  That would be a welcome change.

There are some elements of Star Trek that I hope they don't leave out.  For instance:

• I already saw transporters in use in the previews, but I'll put it down anyway.  Those have got to be in.
• Tricorders... they've got to be used somewhere.
• Red alert... gotta have that characteristic sound (again, seen in the previews already)
• Phasers and photon torpedoes.  Or at least, don't replace them with anything else.
• (Optional) Vulcan neck pinch.. you can take it or leave it.

It would also be nice if they *carefully* included little homages to Star Trek: The Next Generation characters/plot lines.  For instance, the champaigne bottle that was used to christen the Enterprise B in the movie Generations was from Picard's vineyard.  (I realize that was a Next Gen movie already but the example still applies).  They can easily overdo this though.