I'm torn; all the characters/actors were great, the comedy was solid, action was good to ok but it was too messy of a plot, they derailed/lost Kahn's motive, and got too undermining in the end.
The first was overall more solid and why I got on board this train. Just wish they grew upon their new timeline and not just retread the old. Should I get ready to search for Spock again, in the film?
I think your over reacting, I watched WOK recently and I watched Into Darkness for the third time recently and while their are some similarities in the film. Their both different.
Wrath of Khan is a direct sequel to the original tv series episode "Space Speed" and the events that unfolded in the episode as a result of Kirk discovering the "SS Botany Bay and then sentencing Khan and his followers to exile on an uncolonized world, Ceti Alpha V that after six month a cataclysm on Ceti Alpha VI shifted the system's orbits, causing massive ecological devastation on Ceti Alpha V. Khan's ingenuity and the meager shelter of the cargo containers kept his people alive while most of the indigenous life perished. The rugged Ceti eels survived, however, and as the only hosts available for their young, Khan's people were beset by the creatures. Over time, Khan lost twenty of his people to the slow, maddening death caused by the eels, including his "beloved wife."
In WOK, Khan swears vengeance against Kirk for abandoning him on that planet and uses "Project Genesis" as a means to lure Kirk to come to him. He even controls Terrell and Chekov with those eels, Terrell tries to fight against it and ends up killing himself, Chekov manages to fight it off long enough for Kirk to zap the eel. Then Khan leaves him on the planet and kirk screams "KHAN"s name in frustration but also as a ploy to throw Khan off until he can signal to Spock he's ready to return to the enterprise.
A space battle occurs between Khan and kirk in their respective ships, Kirk manages to out trick Khan and gains the upper hand. But Khan activates the Genesis Trooped as a last ditch effort to destroy Kirk before he dies.
The Enterprise has taken heavy damage and Spock realizes that in order to survive they needed "Wrap Speed" he sacrificed himself to repair the damage to the Enterprise's engines which allowed the starship to escape at warp seconds before the Genesis Device detonated, destroying the Reliant and Khan with it.
Into Darkness is a totally different tale that has some similar themes and events from WOK but overall it's not the same film at all.
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