While you make a strong point, I'm going to argue: NuTrek's biggest problem is that they fucked up Jim Kirk massively hard, and whatever else they might do right or wrong, it is hard to get past the fact that they fucked up the central pillar of that flavor of the franchise.

I mean... I get it, it's a different timeline and whatnot. But they didn't HAVE to turn Kirk into the caricatured version of himself. Kirk the banging-green-women, go-with-his-guy-in-all-situations, arrogant, dismissive asshole isn't actually Jim Kirk. It's the satirical version of Kirk that has been used so many times (looking at you, Zapp Branigan) that instead of satirizing the concept it instead reifies it.

-Merc
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