Fix Beyond very simply. Fix 2009 even simpler.

[CorporalClegg]

Neither needs fixing.

2) Instead of destroying the Enterprise, have them find said other ship destroyed. While an away team beams/shuttles to the surface to look for survivors (again, something which was done a lot in TOS), the Enterprise winds up in a firefight against the swarm, able to beat them back for a while. Eventually, Enterprise and Franklin (crewed by away team) get together to fight off the swarm and Krall.

This misses the entire point of the film.

It's said in TOS that Kirk taught at the Academy. So, here's Kirk, a few years after grad, unsatisfied, not getting anywhere in his quest to explore space/become a captain, etc. He's a professor teaching kids younger than him that get to live out his dream, the one PIke promised, while he's only been on a couple of shakedown cruises at most. The only satisfaction he gets is an academic rivalry with Spock. So when the Vulcan comes out with his new "no-win scenario" simulation, prof Kirk decides to make a fool out of him.

So does this.

 

[Danja]

2) Instead of destroying the Enterprise, have them find said other ship destroyed

How many times has Enterprise been destroyed?

It isn't Trek unless the Enterprise is blown to bits!

 

[XCV330]

How many times has Enterprise been destroyed?

It isn't Trek unless the Enterprise is blown to bits!

at some point if Starfleet admiralty was the least bit supertitious they'd stop naming ships Enterprise, Defiant, or Valiant.

 

[M'Sharak]

How many times has Enterprise been destroyed?

Ohhhh, three or four. [/pete puma]

 

[Danja]

Part of me wants Strange New Worlds to blow up the ship just to be consistent!

 

[dupersuper]

How many times has Enterprise been destroyed?

Are we counting Cause and Effect?