Star Trek Into Darkness
Showed it to my gf for the first time, she loved it. It was my third time watching it. This movie is growing on me, the first scene on Nibiru is STAR TREK at its best, imho, even though it's pretty silly, we all get the need to condense the situation to an environment where it can be shown on screen.
The idea of Khan and his genetically engineered comrades is both a source of delight and annoyance with me. Granted, the idea is not new, but it's one of those moments where Star Trek is self-aware of an obvious technological future (humans being augmented through either genetic engineering or synthetic integration) and uses it as a plot device but fails to extrapolate it to a universe wide scale. We also see this with the Suliban a hundred years earlier on a more or less species-wide scale. So everyone knows that humans can be improved, augmented, it has been done, and yet absolutely nothing positive came of it in centuries of time, even by the 24th century humans remain unaugmented, completely natural and biological beings that can be killed with a simple bullet. Realistic? No. Makes it for easier story telling? Absolutely.
However, I give props for at least exploring the question in Space Seed, Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness. Same goes for exploring CRYONIC preservation, not cryogenic as it is referred to in the movie. Why not perform a 20 second research into the subject and use the right terminology? There are companies offering cryonic preservation today, while cryogenic research is an enormous field of study but has nothing to do with cryonics other than comparable temperatures used in the application.
