Ok, I'm going to throw my own theory as to who Benedict Cumberbatch might be playing.
Maybe something happened to Khan on the Botany Bay that resulted in his death. His stasis chamber in Space Seed did have a fatal flaw that would have killed him if Kirk didn't do something. Maybe whoever tried waking him up didn't know what to do. Yaukim, devastated that he and Khan's other followers have been robbed of a chance at starting their own empire, decides to take revenge on the world that rejected them.
Kind of a lackluster motive for revenge, I know. But it's a lot better than Nero's motivation by a landslide.
I'm still at a loss for WHY everyone thinks Kahn will be the bad guy. The only thing the last film has in common with TMP is there's a new Enterprise that Kirk isn't in command of at the start of the film. Kahn being the bad guy because this is the second film and he was the bad guy of the second Shatner film is flimsy logic. Do you all assume that Spock will die in this one, the next will feature resurrecting him, and the one after will feature time travel to pinch some whales?
I think that you're confusing Dyson spheres with Jeffries tubes.
Yeah, that's the problem. If he's just after the Federation but not Kirk, that's just .. boring.
He's not going after the Federation. He's going after Earth.
Which is essentially the Federation.
You mean like space dust from a nebula is adequate to create a successful Genesis planet?
Maybe it's Chaka Khan. Or Sammy Kahn.Its all a guessing game... maybe its Kubla Khan!
I'm still at a loss for WHY everyone thinks Kahn will be the bad guy. The only thing the last film has in common with TMP is there's a new Enterprise that Kirk isn't in command of at the start of the film. Kahn being the bad guy because this is the second film and he was the bad guy of the second Shatner film is flimsy logic. Do you all assume that Spock will die in this one, the next will feature resurrecting him, and the one after will feature time travel to pinch some whales?
In WoK, khan was jettisoned (or whatever) by kirk and the enterprise crew on TOS, the wrath was some 20+ years later. Seeing that this is the 2nd new flick and they're starting even before TOS started, why would khan have any desire for revenge on kirk or earth at this point?
Seeing as everything is supposed to be different from the point of kirk taking command, why go with any villain with a tie to TOS? Who's to say they'd still be villains. Not to mention your target audience (18-30) won't have a clue about TOS anyhow. Hell, they probably barely know the previous movies.
Killing spock would be kinda pointless. People who've only seen the new stuff because in the first one, spock was a grade a jerk. The point of new alternate timeline should, you know, be new stories. Why tie yourself to something old after taking great pains to break free yourself from the previous history in the first place?
Sometimes one drop can consume an entire galaxy enveloping Super Nova that has already destroyed a couple of solar system, sometimes one drop will consume just a single planet, and sometimes a whole wrecking ball amount will destroy only.... something about 1/6 the size of Texas? Sometimes ships can travel through time and reality with it without so much as a scratch, other times it will completely destroy any ship that gets close to it.
lol. With that kind of logic, we can't say Geordi LaForge is black unless the series says he is.
You have seen the film, yes? Growing from dead cells to full adult in a matter of days isn't considered "unstable" to you? It was mentioned right in the film.. he was going to continue growing like that until he died (the next day, at the rate he was going), until they got him away from the effects of the device.And the whole thing's unstable...but not Spock?
The device was never meant to create a planet from scratch, it was supposed to run on an already-existing planet. The life on the planet would be the only thing the device affected, not the planet itself.
That's my take on it, anyway. I thought we were past complaints that movies didn't spell out every last detail in plain English for the stupid audience? It's nice to have films that leave some questions up to the viewer to answer.
You give Old Trek a pass on the most ridiculous nonsense, and won't extend the same lenience to Nu Trek...just because you don't like it. No real need to justify it more than that, IMO.
Yeeeeaaaahhhhh...we don't do that here. :lolWhatever happened to holding your tongue if you didn't have anything nice to say?