I doubt the Vulcans will get much screen time. The upshot of the disaster will be to push Spock on a darker path than Prime Timeline Spock. (I am convinced that Spock's plotline is the reason why the writers blew up poor old Vulcan.)
There will be much angst, because we all love angst and stuff. Uhura will have her hands full with an angry repressed nutjob half-alien time bomb. Maybe she shoulda gone for Kirk after all. Then again, she looks like a gal who's up for a challenge.
My main wish for the Abramsverse is for the Romulans to finally get the development they've needed for a long long time. Trek XI didn't do it and the next movie probably will be about anything but Rommies (except as a minor plotline to carry along the Spock-time-bomb subplot.)
I would like to see how they deal with the Obvious Jealousy some Officers will have about Kirk
Starfleet isn't that petty. Sure, it's unrealistic that they wouldn't be petty, but it's the Trek Way to depict Starfleet as a shining paragon of wisdom and goodness (leaving aside the odd insane admiral) that could never exist in the real world. This
is science fiction after all, we don't always have to be believable.
At the end of the novelization, somehow Archer's missing dog materializes on the Enterprise.
Oh wow, good thing they left it out of the movie.
It would be cute to have some passing reference, even if it's just a glimpse of a beagle in the rec room playing catch with Chekov. Something subtle, just for eagle eyed fans.
Seriously, it would be a shame to undo Amanda's tragic demise. What's the point of shaking up the timeline if you're just going to put things back the way they were?
Agreed. Amanda stays dead. They killed her and blew up Vulcan so we can have Super Angst Spock. Unlike Quinto's bosses on
Heroes, I have a feeling the
Trek writers actually have a reason for the stuff they write other than random whim, and I'm interested to see where this all goes.
And I second (third?) the votes for bringing back Gaila and Cupcake.
