Huh. Well, that's less than stellar. (....that's.... that's a joke.)
Anyway, at least the ending would prevent the next movie from being called 'Star Trek Back 2 Life' and involve Kirk haunting Uhura and they have to go to the Revelation planet to find his body and reunite him with his... ghost essence.
Then time travel to 2017 to get turtles to talk to space.