Star Trek Into Cliché

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2013)

I really wanted to like this film, as I liked the first, but as soon as I realised the plot was flawed I realised Abrahams had made a mistake.
In the previous Star Trek film Abrahams had cleverly changed the time line from Kirk's birth onwards. So everything that occurs after that point is different. This film is flawed because everything before that point is EXACTLY the same as the "normal" Star Trek Universe. It follows Star Trek canon. These are Abrahams rules not mine.
In the Star Trek Series (Space Seed) and film Wrath of Khan, the villain Khan Noonien Singh is portrayed as a man of colour. He is referred to as "northern Indian" and "Sikh".
Cue the cliché!! It appears to me the script writers under Abrahams direction we're too lazy to explore north Indian , Sikh warrior culture. The Scythian legacy, and their cultural traits, so they opted for the easy Hollywood cliché. The English speaking villain. OK if he was a man of colour like Ricardo Motalban and has an English accent I would have said OK, thats fair enough, but to have a white actor play a chap with the name Khan Noonien Singh? We live in the 21st Century Abraham's. Most kids listen to world music. They understand the diverseness of culture. They understand Khan Noonien Singh is not an English name. Not even a white man's name.
Based on that I just couldn't take this Americanised jingoistic garbage seriously. It's fallen far from the Roddenberry ideal.
There were other bit's that got up my nose:
1) Massacre round the table cue Godfather 3. I was waiting to hear "F*ck you Joey Zaza!" 2) Borne Identity chase on foot between "Khan" and Spock...utter nonsense. 3) Cue Star Wars Jedi Knight type leaping from flying crafts. 4) Also you cannot change the appearance of the Klingons...he's done that here. 5) Also what's with all the lens flares? 6) Seeing people fly into space? We've seen it in the last film, so now Abrams doesn't have one but a dozen.