No joke: there will be spoilers for anyone who ain’t yet seen it.

I like the serious ethical discussion Spock has with Kirk about how to deal with Harrison/Kahn. Definite echoes of current drone program and even our execution of bin Laden. Torture and indefinite detainment didn’t arise, because cryste, they aren’t animals.

The role switch of Spock and Kirk in sacrificing himself to save the ship with obvious callback to Wrath of Kahn worked for me. And then they ruin it by putting the Kahn scream in Spock’s mouth. After that the movie shits on itself.

More Simon Pegg Scotty, please. I want a whole series of just him and his silent partner.

Roles for women in ST got more sexist, not less. There is no bottom.

I wanted more Klingons. But Buckaroo Bonzai as an arrogant warmonger is cool, too.