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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I liked the movie, especially the Moby Dick references. It did suffer series consistency as well as some problems with the science, but I'd never go so far as to say it was IqnaH QaD. 
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hated the Moby Dick references: For one thing, equating Kirk to a "ferocious whale" was a silly metaphor, obviously chosen for its renown more than its accuracy; and for another thing, Khan misquoted the book (and the "revenge is a dish best served cold" comment) to add "Trek-isms" that sounded too stupid for even a geek like me to swallow. Trying to make the movie more palatable for sci-fi fans who presumably (to the Paramount producers) wouldn't know any better.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I thought all the Star Trek films with the old people were daft. If it was real they would have all been retired years ago. Maybe if they had made it so that they were lost in space or something it would make more sense.
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True: From the first movie, where everyone from the series is still on the Enterprise except Kirk, Spock and McCoy, who are all rushed in for the crisis; to all of them becoming instructors in the second movie, renegades in the third and time-travelers in the fourth; to giving these instructors/renegades (they disobeyed every rule we have, but since they saved the world... no harm, no foul) a brand new (and badly-running) ship in the fifth movie; to making these instructors ambassadors to the Klingons (after killing more than their fair share over the years--I'm sure that went over well) for the sixth movie. Talk about contrived.
If anything, they should have appeared as advisors for a brand new crew or crews of multiple ships. Or given a small ship of their own, a scout ship to ply the stars. Using the original series dynamic was, as you said, daft.