I guess I still harbour a hankering for the days when Trek wasn't summer blockbuster fayre, 'cos I kind of like all the talky stuff, but I guess you show balance since you're a fellow DS9'er!!
I guess I'd really like to be nodding sagely with you and saying isn't it great that the clock's been set back to zero and let's see Kirk et al evolve differently due to the intervention of Nero. I'd really like to be able to say with you that I'm excited that we don't know where we're headed next, and actually at the moment, the writers themselves aren't, but all this talk of Khan (and recently Klingons and the Borg too) make me feel worried that the writers are going to simply latch onto what worked so well in the past, forgetting that TWOK was very a much a movie of 1982 and what made it such a surprising departure (and it was, much to the chagrin of trekkies who didn't like the "militaristic" feel of TWOK) was the towering performances of Shatner who bought gravitas and vulnerability to Kirk and the massively hammed-up Khan, a villain who actually had a point and worked his pain quite in the way that Nero didn't.
That may have come out a bit harsh...I hadn't had my coffee yet
I totally agree with you, I'm a "talky" fan, but that's just not where the franchise needs to go right now, I think. We need to have a break from the episodic, bring back a real fan base, then see what we can do from there. I also think Trek has always been so hard to get into for newcomers, especially later on.
Am I the only one that thinks these reports are totally bogus media hype? J.J. et al have NEVER said what they're planning. They probably don't even know yet. It's the media who are grasping at straws, Khan, Borg, etc. I bet we'll see something new and entirely unique.