NuKirk as reflective and literate as original Kirk?

[DonIago]

So...he'll be a lot like TOS Kirk then?

 

[Hythlodeus]

Because reality doesn't favor fools, Jimmy boy.

Really? So, in which reality do YOU live?

 

[JarodRussell]

I think the next movie will totally forget about anything that happened in the first one. There won't be any troubles with Kirk's promotion, Vulcan won't be an issue, Spock Sprime will never be heard from again, transwarp beaming, what's that?, etc...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I think the next movie will totally forget about anything that happened in the first one. There won't be any troubles with Kirk's promotion, Vulcan won't be an issue, Spock Sprime will never be heard from again, transwarp beaming, what's that?, etc...

So like an episode of TV Star Trek then.

 

[Captrek]

Because reality doesn't favor fools, Jimmy boy.

Really? So, in which reality do YOU live?

Reality may not favor fools, but voters do.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Because reality doesn't favor fools, Jimmy boy.

Really? So, in which reality do YOU live?

Jimmy boy doesn't live in the same reality we do. We unfortunate souls live in the real reality, the frustratingly random and chaotic one, where fools often win. James T. Kirk lives in the far more satisfying reality of fiction, where the good guys win and fools get thwacked and order prevails in the end.

And that summarizes why fiction exists in the first place. It would suck if the real reality were all we had.

You know he;s not going to get THWACKED so far down that he's going to lose that. He may learn a little humility but he's been established as the hero that doesn't fail. He may stumble but I can't see him falling at all.

As long as he's humbled enough that the audience's sense of justice is satisfied and we don't resent him for reminding us of the real reality in which undeserving jackasses like he currently seems to be, get promoted for nothing more than chutzpah and luck, things should be just fine.

But right now, he's attracting way too much resentment from the audience and that needs to be fixed.

 

[M'Sharak]

Because reality doesn't favor fools, Jimmy boy.

Really? So, in which reality do YOU live?

Reality may not favor fools, but voters do.

There's an old quote about that, but remarks about voters fall a little outside the scope of this forum.

 

[Set Harth]

That's why the next movie should start with him getting a big ole THWACK to the head.

Well, he did have his "stormtrooper moment" in STXI.