Tobar said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Here is what the writers of the new trek just don't understand. The reasons we love Kirk and he has become a timeless character have nothing to do with internet memes about how awesome Kirk is. We don't love Kirk because he beds green alien woman,we don't love Kirk because he kicks everyone's asses in fistfights,and we don't love him because he refuses to obey the rules. No we love him because he has a strong moral core in addition to those things and without that moral core he is nothing. remember the framing device for Star trek is that these are entries from kirk's official logs that go to starfleet so every time he breaks the rules he is putting it in the ship's log,that is how much his word means to him. He know it could cost him his job but he is not about to lie or put his crew in the position of having to cover up for him when he breaks the rules. If he breaks them it's for a good moral reason and his only defense he explaining why he felt the rules had to be broken that is one reason we love him.

This.

Yeah that is why I will never watch ITD because I felt like I was watching the writers stab Kirk in the back be removing his moral core and if the character doesn't have that then I can't really root for him so I am not invested in what is going on. The way he treats Spock for not lying is just so far out of character I don't think you can even call him Kirk any more. That is without the other problems this film has like there being a cure for death in a bottle. How is any action scene in any future Star Trek movie supposed to have any tension if there are a bunch of frozen people out there who have a cure for death in their blood?