Yeah, he has made the Khan reference before.
The full quote from the article...
“What I love about Star Trek is that it’s not a war story. It’s not a story in which might makes right,” he told Observer. “It’s a story about exploration. It’s a story about creative problem solving. My favorite moment in all of Star Trek is in Wrath of Khan when Kirk puts on his reading glasses to lower Khan’s shields. It’s a brief moment that is so exhilarating because he’s using the best tool he has, which is his mind. As much as I like the Chris Pine movies they were mostly about running from one end of the ship to the other to put out a fire, to stop a thing, and then before he could catch his breath he had to do something else. They’re much more action movies and what I wanted to get back to was this idea of humanity justifying existence in the universe by showing its best qualities.”
...this sounds like things pretty much every Trek fan should like, and the parts I put in bold I know are what I love most about Star Trek and I really dug a couple of the "pew pew" JJ movies.
A "think piece" Star Trek movie though will never make a lot of money because we as a society simply don't work on that level. You need the "pew pew's" and the fisticuffs and the action if you wanna make bank. And this is probably why his movie has been put on hold (along with COVID 19 reasons, as well; natch). Paramount is a for-profit company and they want to make as much money as possible.
Not to covet thy neighbor's fandom too hard, but the reality is f*cking Captain America is a bigger deal than Captain Kirk and that makes me sad... and a little mad (like, "How the hell did that happen?!").
But yep, give me boring, navel gazing, watching paint dry,
2001-esque Star Trek every day of the week and twice on Sunday. It's gotta have JJ Trek production values though, I mean, c'mon... do that though and you got perfection.
