Star Trek Movies Always Copy The Wrong Thing From Wrath Of Khan

Blogger has an idea, not a great one, and writes a couple of paragraphs about it.

Wishes the Genesis device became the Death Star of the Star Trek series.

" the imitators always focus on the wrong things instead of what was at the heart of Wrath of Khan's success."

Oh please tell me. "They each introduced a diabolical supervillain ",

ok, well a weak villain would've improved them?

So there's one example. Used twice in how many Star Trek films? Star Trek has a couple of super villains. How insightful.

The rest of the series did copy the good things to varying degrees. Kirk getting his ass handed to him constantly, then the team coming back as a unit to save the day, with everybody contributing. The humour, especially compared to the dry, humourless first film, they really nailed the tone with Wrath of Khan and rolled with it to different degrees of success in latter movies. Wrath of Khan focuses on how fun and silly Star Trek is, and played upon that, which makes the high drama hit home even bigger, and the acting able to go larger than anything before it.

"the secret ingredient of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .........is that the film introduced a great, original idea: the Genesis Device."

I'm quite sure the secret ingredient was the script, story, humour, interplay between characters, the actors settling into their roles on the big screen, the improved acting overall, and the embracing of the goofyness of Star Trek.

I think the thing they miss is the element of suspense. TWOK has some great action scenes but it isn’t really an action movie. To me it is more of a slow boiling suspense thriller.

I still think their biggest mistake in "Star Trek: Into Darkness" was to cast Benedict Cumberbatch as the Kelvin Timeline Khan, with no explanation at all as to his appearance except in a book most movie-goers won't know about or read. I mean, the last image I get when I think of Khan is a skinny, tall, pasty white Brit with blue eyes. Khan was shorter, broader, dark, Indian in ethnicity, and easily very intimidating in appearance when it suited him. Benedict Cumberbatch? Not so much. He's good in specific roles, but not that one.