You mean me?
Orci: "We’re trying to keep it as up-to-date and as reflective of what’s going on today as possible. So that’s one thing, to make it reflect the things that we are all dealing with today."
Pegg: "I think it's a very current film, and it reflects certain things that are going on in our own heads at the moment; this idea that our enemy might be walking among us, not necessarily on the other side of an ocean, you know.[...]?"
Cumberbatch: "It’s no spoiler I think to say that there’s a huge backbone in this film that’s a comment on recent U.S. interventionist overseas policy from the Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld era,” he said. And then there’s the message that appears on screen right before the credits: “This film is dedicated to our post-9/11 veterans."
Well that's inaccurate?
(Reality)
A billionaire asshole knocked down two buildings and damaged the Pentagon. The US Government used that as an excuse to attack unrelated targets destabilizing 15 percent of human living space for the last 15 years and counting.
(movie)
An immortal superman bombs London to convene Starfleet's captains, to almost assassinate said captains, so that they will follow him to Q'onoS with super weapons to destroy Q'onoS, that also happen to be Sleeper Stasis Pods for even more immortal supermen, so that the first immortal Superman can steal the missiles stasis coffins from the Admiral organizing a Coup to take over the Federation and exterminate all dangerous aliens, like the Klingons for instance who have probably forgotten about Earth on purpose for mutating them all into Klingon human hybrids.... Seriously, why is Earth still a thing?
The Klingons hadn't done anything.
The Federation hadn't done anything, and all Marcus had done was build a Dreadnought he had plans to use at some-point to take over the galaxy later when the time was right, which right then, it most certainly was not.
Even if you claim that Admiral Marcus is Vice President Cheney in the wake of 911, that's still a history lesson about 2001 and 2002 and not about the fact that we are still dealing with the ramifications of all those lies they told, still now.
(I never go into the movies forum, usually. Sorry.)
All Marcus had to do to win right at the beginning after London, was exterminate his Superman hostages, and take the Dreadnought to Q'onoS to raise the world Khan was standing on.
All Khan had to do was tell a reporter about the Section 31 black budget building secret Federation warships, and Marcus was fucked. Or really, rather than waiting in Klingon space, he should have been on Enterprise as soon as those missiles, his family was loaded on board as cargo, and vented everyone else into space, which is something you can do when you have a transwarp transporter, and the ability to kidnap any one's children.
Kirk didn't have enough true information fast enough, so he probably did the best he could following bad orders from idiots and liars... Oh? That sounds familiar.
Never mind.
