James Picard wrote: What I really want is to get rid of Orci & Kurtzman. The fact that they wrote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen should be warning enough.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, money speaks louder than quality in Hollywood; not to mention that Star Trek's philosophy and outlook is so alien to 99% of producers (who thrive and profit on stereotypes and cliches as safe marketing values, not innovation or thought-provoking ideas). And so, just because it so happens the movies they were involved with made lots of money (thank you 3D price tag) those two have been hired for several other big projects like the next Spider-Man movie (fortunately, Mark Web is back at the helm and should weed out all idiocies from their ususally botched research and false-innovation pretenses).
AS for Cumberbatch saving the movie... Personally, I never saw even once a good actor save a bad movie. Heck, the actors in the first one were quite good (Pine, Quinto) even great (Urban, Greenwood)... yet, the movie is still a textbook rip=off and a jewel of bad moviemaking on par with Plan 9 From Outer Space.
So I never go to a movie just because this guy or that guy is in it (guess I'm not one to fall for the star system). The Abrams movie had none other than Leonard Nimoy in it, and was godfathered by others like Takei and Koenig... Look what it turned out to be.
