I'm fully expecting this to be a fish-out-of-water screwball comedy set in the eighties, with Kirk, Spock and co having to negotiate a series of hilarious social misunderstandings in order to bring a pair of whale sharks back to the 23rd century.
I enjoy the Kelvin movies a fair bit ... though I do think of them as somewhat separate from the rest of Trek. That said, I think this might be the best case scenario. Put Cumberbatch in mocap as the whales!