You said it, John Harrison. We mean "Khan." The only thing more frustrating than keeping the fan-servicing villain’s name a secret is that it has no impact on the characters when it is revealed. And if we were Khan, frozen centuries before the film takes place, only to be thawed out to help Admiral RoboCop build evil starships, our first questions would be "What’s a starship? Why ask me to build one when I know nothing about them?!"
Once again, Kirk goes from learning what it takes to be a Captain to really learning what it takes — after lying to save his own ass at the expense of his crews’, and throwing a temper tantrum about it when caught. That’s not what heroes do, but the movie can’t be bothered to care about that. It’s too busy tasking the Enterprise to fire exactly 72 photons full of Khan’s people at a planet because reasons. Ugh, this movie sucks.
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