marcicat | movie rewatch: Star Trek Into Darkness

But can you imagine if we’d gotten two hours of Kirk, Spock, and Uhura pretending to be space pirates, with Captain Sulu “chasing” them in the Enterprise, and McCoy as the grumpy go-between?

Pike could have done his whole ‘we’re taking the Enterprise away from you’ speech, but it would turn out later that it was just a cover so that Kirk could undercover Admiral Marcus’ secret plan. (Like that Voyager episode, with Tom Paris, because if a plot works, why not do it again?) And Kirk could be all ‘if we’re doing this we’re doing it my way,’ and Pike would just sort of sigh and wonder how this became his life, because really?

And then Kirk would steal a ship and Spock would insist on coming along and Uhura would roll her eyes and say she was already packed, and what were they waiting for, and off they’d go!

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