A Dog - and I am faithful to the series

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2013)

Star Fleet is a military organization. You do not disobey orders, falsify reports, board a star ship unnoticed, argue with your superiors, or run around the ship like a Chinese fire drill. If you command a ship, and disobey the orders of a superior, why do you expect your subordinates to obey your orders? The 1950's war movies got it right, and that TV series JAG got it right. Starship Troopers got it right. A whole lot of Hollywood gets it wrong.
Sorry to harp on this, but Star Trek is a sci-fi war movie series. You create exotic aliens, and advanced technology, but the rest of the show is firmly grounded in tradition. So a lot of dialog writes itself, and scenes play out naturally when you stick to tradition.
The Khan character is the best alien in a long time. Played like the lead in "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Not quite an alien, but a person bred to be stronger, smarter, etc. So it would be expected they look like people and speak the King's English.
Anyway, I get the feeling this is the end of the line for the Star Trek franchise. The movies have always been rocky and uneven, but with enough interest to see the next one. Given what this one cost to make, and what it is making at the box office ... I would pass on the next one.
In a teeny-tiny genre of artistic endeavor on the internet, I am #1 worldwide, visitors from everywhere except central Africa. Maybe I am missing something, but making a movie like this should look like it was easy to make, not look like it was a struggle.
I would graciously offer my consulting services for the next Trek movie, but there are only about 10 million people ahead of me begging for that honour!