He cheated for altruistic reasons which is alot more than what we can expect from Kurtzman and Orci. If Abrams was altruistic, he would have at least consulted with other writer's ideas.
Instead we might get a watery time travel story. I just want to prepare fans of TOS that it might be worse than we think. I hope I'm wrong. but I just don't see ant deep sci-fi coming out of those two. Again, I hope somehow I'm wrong. It's gonna be more like sci-fi light. Just as the mission impossible movies turned the whole dynamic of team work on its head.
Reason all you want....he still cheated.
And no, its not going to be some DEEP scifi movie, its going to be action oriented. Some of the best episodes of TOS are action and suspense oriented...The Doomsday Machine, Balance of Terror, and even the Ultimate Computer. Those episodes are still considered classics of TOS, yet are not DEEP SCIFI episodes, but action oriented ones.
Hell the best regarded Star Trek films outside the fandom are TWOK and FC. And this film was made to appeal to the people OUTSIDE THE FANDOM, because thats where the money is.
Just because we aren't getting TMP (thank god) doesn't mean it's crap, and this preconcieved notion that since we arent getting deep scifi, its gonna suck is rediculous.