I'd like to start by saying I love when you three do your create your own episodes. I just want to express my thoughts on it and where you may have made some mistakes.

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Reruns
Nevermind the argument that Space Seed does not need to be redone. I don't want to discuss that here. That debate has been done to death. It can be summed up pretty easy like this: fans will always want to see their favorite characters show up in films even if it is not logical, or necessary, for them to be there. Most Trek fans love Khan, not for Space Seed, but for Wrath of Khan. In fact, the Khan from Wrath is pretty different from Space Seed and is written much better and with a stronger character. Clearly, that is the Khan that needs to be redone. If we're looking to redo episodes, why not Mudd's Women? Harry Mudd appeared in more episodes than Khan, and an army of scantily-clad, female, androids would have much more sex/box office appeal than Khan. But that is just my opinion. Let's talk about this "script" you've made.

The first point where I got upset was when Kirk and crew confront the Klingons. TOS Kirk was a hot-head. Often times it would seem that he would act without thinking, a point that is alluded to several times in both the show and the movies. However, the Klingons also referred to Kirk as being extremely cunning. See, even though Kirk wasn't known to be a "thinking man's" captain, when he decided to use his brain, he was actually pretty smart. This new Kirk, we'll call him Nirk, is even more of an extreme than Kirk. Kirk once outsmarted all those Klingons in Trouble with Tribbles, and he was pretty cocky about it. Nirk kind of outsmarted Spock by getting Spock to give up command, but he only did it by being extremely emotional and pushing Spcok to violence. In Star Trek 11, it seems like Nirk went to the Movie Picard School of Captaining. He's wreckless to an extreme, taking on odds that even an insane person would shy away from. Nirk seems to be all about action and not thinking at all. For crying out loud, he drove an antique car into a pit for no reason other than to tell a cop what his name was. This movie would be a great spot to show that Nirk actually might be intelligent.

When the Enterprise encounters the Botany Bay in possession of the Klingons, you have Kirk start a battle with the Klingons. Now as I said, the new Kirk is as reckless as movie Picard, but even I think even movie Picard would have a problem with this scenario. The Klingons are holding the Botany Bay hostage and Kirk thinks the BEST option would be to shoot at them? I'm sorry, but what school anywhere would prepare people in command to shoot at hostages? This would have been a great opportunity to show Kirk's famed cunning and prove that this Kirk can do more than just dumb action stuff. Plus, your script calls for the killing of Kor/Kang/Koloth, which would not cause the Klingons to swear revenge. Dying in battle is the dream of every Klingon. If you want to set up the Klingons for Star Trek 3, then you need to do something that would cause them to come back; ie. offend their honor or make them look foolish in the eyes of other Klingons. I think it was Darren who suggested it, and he was totally correct, Kirk needs to trick the Klingons. The Klingons would never willingly hand over the hostages, it's not in their nature. Kirk will have to take them. Using force is not wise, the Klingons might kill the hostages. Also, these are the new universe Klingons. They spent 20 years studying Nero's ship with all its future technology and weapons. We can safely assume they are armed to the teeth and, more than likely, more powerful than the Enterprise. A physical engagement would probably end with the death of the Enterprise. So what's the solution here? A challenge by Kirk. The Klingons would most likely threaten Kirk and attempt to intimidate him. They might even give Kirk a display of their power. Remember that this is Kirk we're talking about. He is both smart AND reckless. In a true Kirk style move, he would point out that his ship is no match for the weapons of the Klingons, but he would taunt the Klingon captain by calling him coward and hiding behind his weapons. That would get the Klingon captain to challenge Kirk to one-on-one fight. Kirk's crew protests this insane plan, but Kirk, on his way to the transporter room, explains that while he and Spock have the Klingons distracted he wants McCoy and Scotty to beam over to the Botany Bay and steal the Augments. Scotty could leave a device behind that creates a false medical reading to make it look like the Augments are still there. Meanwhile, Kirk is over on the Klingon ship getting his rear end handed to him. Scotty messages Spock to let them know that they have the Augments and beams Spock and Kirk away. Then they take off at warp speed away from the Klingons, shouting "Suckers!" When Kor/Koloth/Kang finds out that the hostages are gone, he swears revenge against Kirk offended his honor, which he has since Kirk (1) ran from a fight, (2) stole the hostages, and (3) tricked him.

Here's the best part. Since you three seem obsessed with starting the space battle from Wrath in this movie instead of in a later movie, we need a way for Khan to gain a ship of some sort. Since Kirk thinks that the Klingons might be chasing him, even though (for story's sake) they aren't, the Enterprise high-tails it for the nearest starbase; something close to Ceti Alpha. On the way to the starbase, this is when you can put major character development. Really explore Khan and give him reasons for behaving the way he does. This also gives his Augments a chance to speed learn the future. In your original story you had them beam over to the Klingon ship. That makes no sense at all because they have no experience with Klingons. It's highly unlikely that even the crew of the Enterprise would be versed in reading and understanding Klingon. They would have a hard time running a Klingon ship. You expect us to believe that a group of humans from 1997, no matter how intelligent they are, would be able to learn Klingon fast enough to prevent Kirk from just blowing them to pieces? How would Khan know which button fires disruptors and which one turn off the engine? Khan needs a Federation ship, which the starbase will give us.

When they arrive at the starbase, Khan makes his move. Much like in the show, Kirk is not expecting Khan to be a violent conqueror. Khan and his people manage to neasily secure one of the other ships at the starbase. Most of the crew was on the station for shore leave. They kill the rest of the remaining crew and take off. Khan refuses to live under the rules of the Federation. He realizes he is too small to control the entire Federation, but he believes they should be able to live on their own without the rule of Federation. In a message to Kirk/the starbase, Khan announces that they are leaving to find a planet for their people. If anyone tries to stop him, he will respond by testing the full capabilities of the starship he has gained. Kirk is dispatched to stop him. Now we can have a properly working Khan crew. They have spent time on both the starbase and on the Enterprise learning how ship's systems work. Now we're ready for a gigantic space battle for the last half hour of the film.

Here we can get back to your story, after an amazing battle where we can really see the Enterprise in action against a fairly matched enemy ship, unlike the last movie, Khan's ship is crippled. It crashes into Ceti Alpha 5. In your story, you had Kirk NOT scan for survivors. That is truly a Rick Berman move. You always check for survivors. Just assuming there are no survivors is like assuming the Jedi are dead after 3 minutes of gassing. Kirk notices that there are survivors, but in a truly Kirk move, chooses to leave them there. This would be a tricky thing to pull off. Kirk is still a Federation captain and his orders were to bring Khan in. However, Kirk is used to not following orders. He feels that now they have a planet and pose no threat to anyone here. The Enterprise sales off into the sunset.

Now comes the big twist ending. Shown after the credits like a Marvel movie, we see that Khan has survived! But the biggest twist, he and his people are exploring and come across a city that is equal to our current time (2010). Khan smiles, now he has something to conquer. End of Movie. This helps set up the Wrath of Khan. He can recruit new followers and use the resources on this planet to rebuild his broken ship or possibly a new one. Anyway, these were my thoughts on the fan-isode. You guys did a great job as always. Just thought I'd share my input on the idea. I hope you like it, feel free to disagree.