Remake of II? Bullshit. Other than having a couple of "guest" characters in common, there was really nothing in common between STID and ST:TWoK storywise.
Agreed.
WOK provides the barest skeleton of the story.
White Khan? Lotsa ties between India and England, with plenty of Indian upper-class males getting Oxford educated, meeting nice Brit girls while at school, followed by marriage and cranking out a lots of offspring who are pretty darn Cumberbatchy. There's nowhere near the sort of relationship between India and Mexico, so far less likelihood of Indian royalty producing many offspring who are even remotely Montalbaesque. It would have been nice to use an actual Indian in the role, but barring that, an Englishman is far superior a choice for the character than a Hispanic.
As I've already surmised, Khan most likely was brown at first (c.f. the events mentioned in the
Star Trek: Khan comic book) and while in the future, he was given plastic surgery to change his looks, and also a partial memory wipe, so as not to arouse suspicion if seen because he was most likely a wanted war criminal. Real world exclamation-he was white this time because the writers and producers didn't want to cast a brown-skinned man as Khan for fears of stoking racism over terrorism (Osama Bin Laden and all that) in 2013.
Worst Movie Ever Poll?
People mistake a bunch of fans at a convention for the majority of fans (and casual moviegoers) that went to see
Into Darkness and make it a success? They must be smoking something (and no, I
don't want to smoke it.) Many of the people objecting just want to live in a nostalgia loop consisting of
TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, &
Enterprise (the last two shows ironically being the ones they hated so much, but they love now) and expect the rest of us to hate the new movies too. Hypocrites.
Orci backlash? The vast bulk of the audience wasn't aware of it, and it affected their acceptance and enjoyment of the film, and the box office take, not one iota.
Again, they're full of it, and imagining things.
Doubt the studio would want to bring him back, ever? Who, Khan or Orci? 'Cause I don't see anything about the former that would give the studio cause to not revisit the character, and if ya mean Orci... well, the studio keeps sending plenty of work his way, so the idea of "not bringing him back" is something of a misnomer from the get-go, innit?
Orci and & Kurtzman and two of the hottest things in TV and movies right now (
Hawaii Five-O, The Transformers animated show,
Lost) and for the ones who hate the new movies to say this...again, that's down to the stuff that they're smoking that I don't want. Who would these people want to do a
Star Trek show anyway?
