Years later this Trek reboot still crashes most my Isolinear systems into sadness. Product Recall needed!

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2016)

*Spoiler Alert*
Please skip this review if you have:
A. Not yet seen Star Trek Into Darkness (STID)
B. Little knowledge of Trek cannon
C. Not seen Space Seeds (TOS) or other Khan stories
I finally got around to this review after three years because several items still have not really been addressed by other reviews. Originally I saw STID as a good film with fixable flaws but as time has passed, I now watch STID with ever deepening sadness which dampens my enjoyment of other Star Trek productions knowing that anything can be hijacked and taken to the chop shop. In short I expected more and believe that 90% of STID flaws and extra overhead expended to maintain "the plot" boils down to sledge hammering "Khan Noonien Singh" as the villain in to STID. The reason for this overturning of nearly 50 years of Trek cannon makes me wonder if anyone was really in control because there should have been some issues raised but others can debate this ad nauseam. My fix for STID is a product recall. Admit there are problems and reedit STID to better fit Trek cannon and the series genre as a whole thus making STID better (IMMHO). It should also be "cheap" to do a recall since they are making another Trek movie and they could shoot a few new scenes to add to STID. Not only that, the sales of the revamped movie should probably be profitable since every Trek fan would want to see the changes and buy a copy. We could also have endless fun discussions about who shot whom first (Star Wars).
Suggested changes to STID:
Several other IMDb reviews have repeatedly made numerous suggestions that would greatly improve STID and so will not be rehashed here.
Harrison: Drop the Khan bit and just keep the Seymour "John" Harrison character. Harrison should be just a 300 year old augment uber engineer who was the head engineer for Khan Noonien Singh (i.e. Albert Speer in WWII, Khan's "Scotty"). 300 years ago when Khan and his management team were launched into space (i.e. Space Seeds) Harrison and his engineering crew of 72 decided to stay on earth and sleep until Khan's return. As a side plot you could have Harrison claiming to be "Khan" as to hide from Kirk the fact that his crew of engineers launched Khan into deep space and want to cover their tracks by claiming to be the feared augment leadership (just a thought). The reason Harrison and his crew were covertly awakened by Section 31 was to develop prohibited weapons and immoral tactics that no modern ethical Starfleet engineer would come within a light year of creating. Section 31 had an untraceable augment engineering crew who would do as they pleased and would not let "Starfleet principles" slow their pace preparing for the coming war. The problem started when the projects were finishing up, Section 31 started to refreeze Harrison's team but Harrison had plans to usurp Section 31 and continue the augment master plan (Khan's plan). This is when he made his break, blew up the labs, and took off. Despite all the evidence that augments have more strength, speed, and drive, he still is lacking something and this drives Harrison even more to drive a Mac truck through everything.
Dr. Leonard McCoy: Once Bones finds out that Harrison is a 300 year old augment, he gleefully goes out of his way to let Harrison know what backwards inhuman freaks of nature the augments are. Harrison loathes Bones after the several times Bones turned Harrison into a pile of mush using modern childhood illnesses or medical tests to prove that augments are not superior. Bones then modernizes Harrison's weird immune system so Harrison can function outside the lab (Section 31 used this weakness to keep Harrison and his crew on a short leash). Along the way Bones creates a novel way to tweak the augment's stem cells to repair illnesses in others although modern medicine uses synthetic versions. Harrison is Bone's plaything and Harrison would like to pitch bone's head off if he didn't need him... for now.
Scotty: Scotty looks at Harrison's work and laughs. All Harrison's engineering crew did was made things bigger and meaner but not stable enough for Starfleet standards (sloppy and amateurish). This instability allowed Scotty to quickly turn the Dreadnaught in to a pile of quivering mush with a "small screwdriver". Harrison learns quickly why certain weapons were not developed by Starfleet engineering.
Spock: Spock looks at Harrison like he is a primitive Vulcan. Harrison picks up that he is still "merely a human and found wanting" and Spock's sister (if he had one) hits harder. Spock would demonstrate that the augment's penchant for aggression to solve problems does not well work in Vulcan games. Augments cannot build ships in a bottle or do anything slow. The fact that Spock armed the photon torpedoes and had them beamed on to the Dreadnaught showed Harrison who was really in control.
Spock Prime: Still cannot see the need for him, but with a few tweaks this scene could still "work".
Kirk: I would leave him alone and continue to serve as Harrison's punching bag.
That's about it for the major plot points the rest could fill additional pages and since this is likely a moot exercise, ends here.