The appeal of biotics is having all the enemies in the room floating around in the same spot instead of being behind cover or shooting you. It's hilarious, but completely overpowered in ME1.
EDIT: I meant the older Star Trek. I doubt 80% of the people who watched the new movie had ever watched a single episode of the series.
EDIT2: The most (if not, the only) viable way to beat the game on insanity is with a soldier. Add that with the constant respawning of enemies (it's more frequent on Insanity) and you have a very tedious game with combat that barely varies.