Character Conflict, Character Conflict, Character Conflict.
At the end of the last movie, Spock and Kirk may have come to some kind of peace, but they weren’t exactly the trusting-best-buddies that they’d been created to be – While I have no doubt that that’ll happen as the series progresses, I hope that it’s a relatively slow process, and the two (and others, of course) clash throughout the second movie. We want to see fireworks, dammit.
Comedy Is All About Timing And Not “Spock’s Brain”.
One of the things that separates Star Trek and Star Wars to me is humor; Trek is intentionally funny in ways that Wars rarely managed, Han Solo and Princess Leia snark aside. But the comedy in the last Trek movie felt… off, somehow – Too slapstick, too obvious (as much as I loved Chris Pine’s infected Kirk). It’d be nice to see something a little more subtle for the new movie, or at least something more in tune with the gentle bickering of the original and less of the “Spock’s Brain” variety…
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