Riceball
Master Member
I'll go as far as saying, let JJ keep Khan to try and play to the fans. Just not the same way. John Harrison, stays John, a revived superhuman from the past. Trying to awaken the rest of his crew and "leader". Don't even say Khan in the film. Just hints. story plays out the same with leaving out the reactor scene and death of Kirk. Too soon, too much of a duplicate. End the movie with a killer space battle involving the enterprise, that ridiculously large ship and a bad a## Klingon war bird since they involved them earlier in the film and also opens up things with the Klingons for later films. End it the same, Harrison goes back into cryosleep, you pan the camera to see a CGI version of Khan in another cryotube. The ship carrying them is sent to warp into deep space, and you get the faintest glimps of the name, USS Botany Bay on the side. The end, plot holes filled, fan base still intact and the previous lore is still open in the new alti-vers.
That would almost work except that it still mucks with the original timeline in that Khan set off in the Botany Bay well before the supposed split in the time lines. Kahn was supposed to have taken off for space in the Botany Bay some time in the 21st or was it 22nd century, long before the Federation & Starfleet were born and might also pre-date first contact with the Vulcans as well.