I want to see Gary Mitchell in the next one. Where they leave off (starting the 5 year mission) is pretty much where the series began with "Where No Man has Gone Before". There was a bit of speculation/false rumors that Cumberbach was playing Mitchell, which is unfortunate since they might be disinclined to use the character.

KHAAAAAAAMBERBATCH!!!

You mean, KHIIIMBERBATCH?

Overall I enjoyed the film...it really made me miss when the old series was on t.v. ...yeah im that old...

Anyway, I loved it when Spock does his Vulcan neck pinch on Khan and Kahn goes "AAAARggghhh!!!" and fights through the pain to turn around and punch Spock. Cool Stuff!

After seeing Cumberbatch do such a great job in Star Trek now I want to see his Sherlock Holmes tv series.

You should, it's a work of art.

If I remember the first movie, wasn't there a starship being constructed on Earth at the beginning of the movie?
I do agree tho' that starships should not be capable of atmospheric flight - at least in TOS & earlier ST movies I don't recall any such scenes.
+2 for Carol Marcus in her underwear

In TOS there was the episode from season 1 where you clearly see the Enterprise flying in Earth's atmosphere. It's the episode with the USAF pilot who happens to see the Enterprise and is transported onto the ship.

IMHO that's the best ST movie so far...

...but why does Engineering have to be so GalaxyQuestish?
In the last movie, we had those ridiculous transparent pipes that Scotty beamed into, and this time we had a warp core that you could climb up and kick back to life.

Well, the fact that a large part of engineering was shot on location at a brewery explains a lot.

Really?.....that certainly explains Chekov's engineering prowess.

Yup!

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk...-153158175.html

Some nitpicky things.

What was the purposes of robocop firing the kahnsicles down to Klingon? Were they supposed to land and release or just kill the occupants to piss of Khan? That would piss off the Klingons? It dosent take much to make them mad, but launching people at their planet instead of warheads, especially if they end up as craters in a desert dosent seem too bad.

When they found the transporter device and realized Khan had gone to Klingon, why didnt they just round up some special forces and follow him? Do they even need ships anymore if you can blind transport those distances and into starships at warp, like in the first movie?

Admiral Marcus wanted to fire the torpedoes at Kronos for 2 reasons. To get rid of the evidence that might tie his involvement with Khan and to also cause damage on Kronos to start the war he wanted. Remember that the torpedoes still had their destructive warheads.

Well in Star Trek (2009), They deleted the scenes where the Narada takes Nero to V'Ger to Calculate where and When Spock will arrive.

They also deleted the Scenes after the Kelvin was destroyed, the Klingons show up and Capture the Narada and it's crew, they spend years on the Klingon Prison Planet, then breakout of prison and retreive the Narada and destroy the entire Planet. The Ship Takes them to V'Ger and V'Ger Tells them When and Where Spock will emerge.

There's no doubt the transwarp beaming has introduced a wrinkle into ST now. It's the same problem the writers have dealt with for years. You invent or find some tech to fix some problem, and suddenly you now have to deal with the fact that it will solve your problems again and again. So then you need to invent ways to keep it from working.
The transporter, when working properly, should solve so many problems. Intruders? Beam them off. Problem on a planet or other ship? Beam them off. Bomb on board? Beam it into space. On and on. Therefore things like "ion storms" or the nebulous "interference" were created to prevent it from being a deus ex machina over and over again.



The Jedi Master

It is a great series. In the first episode, when Sherlock Holmes introduced himself, it was a lesson in drama that should be taught to every art student. I was watching on Netflix and nearly stood up to applause.

Compared to characters on the original series...

Kirk looks like Kirk...
Spock looks the part...
The worst offender used to be Scotty, still don't buy Pegg in this.

But now comes Frederick Cucumber and stands in the screen and says, "Hey, I'm Kahn!" and I am supposed to ignore the fact that the re is already an established characterization of Khan and gobble that up. riiiiight...

Don't get me wrong, I think he has great charisma, voice and I love the Sherlock TV series. But to me he is utterly miscast as Khan. His dialogues resonate, thanks to his impeccable diction and great tone. But his is a punching and running Khan. He was killing for revenge on his supposition that his crew was killed. Not against Kirk... boring.

It would had worked better if his character was not Khan.

And why did they had to do all the chase scene at the end? They had 72 cryotubes filled with genetically enhanced dudes JUST LIKE KHAN....and not only that, but they had already unwrapped one Popsicle guy to freeze dry Kirk.

STUPID!

And the ending with the miracle resurrection blood seemed rushed and just another one of the thousand writing gimmicks in sci-fi (which this movie is not... miracle blood = fantasy land).

The good: The movie is entertaining. The characters are likable.

Yeah, you make an outstanding point about how they could have just gotten the blood from any of those 72 crew members but I understand why the writers made that decision. They had to up the stakes somehow when Spock was trying to capture Khan and there had to be a compelling reason for Spock not to kill Khan.

If Kirk had fired those torpedoes, he would have to open them up when they go dead when launched and discovered the cryotubes that took place of the fuel. What's confusing here is why Marcus ordered Kirk to use those torpedoes when he knew that without the fuel, Kirk would not have killed Kahn and would be open to talks with him to discover the truth.