A lot of the plot holes (and Starfleet weirdness) and UNDERWATER SPACE SHIP (Futurama continues to be my reference point for that) bugged me, though admittedly not nearly as much as the whole Nero plot did.
New Khan's motivation is, I think, more like "he's upset because the rest of his crew is being held as hostages to ensure his cooperation", which I can accept as a motive; the rest of his actions seem to be "as a very smart villain, I can predict every response of my enemies, thus everything they do is playing into my final plan." It's implausible, but common enough that I bet there's a TVTrope for it.
I'm probably the target audience for the "pandering" - the references to the original crew feel to me like the Mirrorverse, where despite probability, a different timestream has conspired to show you the same people, writ different. The reboot feels to me like a non-evil mirrorverse, so the references are reflections, and they work for me. Other people's mileage obviously will vary. :)
I think all action movies secretly want to be Die Hard, which did that trope well ("if we pretend to be terrorists, they will cut the power, which is what we want for our heist plot"), and most do not succeed very well. I'd say that here, about 1/3 of the predictions are decent-ish, 1/3 of them are justified in world but require that the world be stupid, and 1/3 are "and you guessed that HOW?".
That's because they *did* spend billions of dollars building a (very sophisticated) machine room - a bunch of those settings were shot in the National Ignition Facility :-)
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New Khan's motivation is, I think, more like "he's upset because the rest of his crew is being held as hostages to ensure his cooperation", which I can accept as a motive; the rest of his actions seem to be "as a very smart villain, I can predict every response of my enemies, thus everything they do is playing into my final plan." It's implausible, but common enough that I bet there's a TVTrope for it.
I'm probably the target audience for the "pandering" - the references to the original crew feel to me like the Mirrorverse, where despite probability, a different timestream has conspired to show you the same people, writ different. The reboot feels to me like a non-evil mirrorverse, so the references are reflections, and they work for me. Other people's mileage obviously will vary. :)
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That's because they *did* spend billions of dollars building a (very sophisticated) machine room - a bunch of those settings were shot in the National Ignition Facility :-)
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