I didn't plan on it. :-) I was just going to say that the only reason they knew about that method of time travel was because they hit upon it quite literally by accident during TOS. There's nothing so far to indicate that they're going to find it in this new timeline...

But as a Trek fan, I am a little disappointed with how the storyline stacks up. I mean, Trek is known for having some plot holes here and there, but this movie really just forgoes all notion of continuity or semblance of some of the more recent Trek constants. To name a few:

• The Temporal Prime Directive
• In the Future, there is a division of Starfleet that watches the timeline for massive changes

Enterprise has shown us that they're not always too effective at preventing massive changes to the timeline. I can think of three massive changes alluded to or shown off the top of my head, only one of which was temporary (and that one resulted in the future Starfleet never existing; Archer and Daniels had to set things right on their own). I'd hazard to say that one massive change was enough to make any preventative changes unlikely.

• The fact that reversing the damage caused by Neo would require a simple bit of time travel (jump to the past to reverse the damage caused, then jump to the future to prevent Neo from ever going back)

... time travel technology which did not exist in that era.

• Neo's ship conforms to NONE of the established Romulan shiip design

There was a comic prequel series that explained this. Nero (NOT Neo) and his crew managed to steal some Borg technology acquired by the Romulans from one of their last surviving outposts.

• Voyager's Chakotay-style Face Tattoos on romulans?

This was also explained in the prequel (I don't remember the exact explanation), but think of it this way: most Romulans we have seen before now have been military (naval equivalent), politicians, and/or white-collar civilians. Nero and his crew were civilian miners. It'd be like comparing naval ship captains, astronauts, or Senators to an offshore oil worker or roughneck.

So they negated the Trek that lead up to this. So? Batman Begins negated the Batman films that came before it, and Casino Royale negated the Bond films that came before it. Soetimes a clean sweep is a good thing, and if you're pining for the old Trek, I wouldn't worry; there's doubtless still going to be plenty of novels coming out based on the "prime" timeline...

Just my $.02...

Am I the only one here who doesn't take caffeine?

Nope. I quit cold turkey nearly a year ago.

I used to drink Diet Coke (and later Coke Zero) like it was water, and a few years back started drinking coffee, and would have at least two cups a morning (that's in addition to the Diet Coke/Coke Zero). Then about a year ago, I had an incident where I was taken to the hospital, and in the followup doctor's visits I was advised to give up caffeine, as it was likely my caffeine intake that did it to me. I quit that day.

I had to deal with headaches and lethargy for about a couple of weeks, but once I got over that I ended up feeling much better overall. I didn't feel anywhere near as jittery and it was easier for me to wake up in the morning.

Nowadays if I drink soda, it's mostly on the weekend and it's either Caffeine Free Diet Coke or Sprite Zero. I drink a couple of cups of decaf coffee in the morning, and other than alcohol I stick to water for the rest of the day (and I drink that like a fish).

All in all, though, I'm finding I don't miss it. I thought it would be harder to go without but since I got through the withdrawal I don't think about it much, other than the fact that I don't feel the after-effects of the caffeine use. I think it's safe to say that I've broken the addiction. :-)

Mario Brothers would never be in the packets, as they travel through pipes, not tubes. :-)