Just saw it tonight (finally). I’m not a trekkie, or trekker, just that TOS was background music for me growing up, and then I later dug TNG. So I have a question - what was up with Kirk losing every single hand to hand combat scene?
In the bar he gets the crap beat out of him until the fight is stopped, luckily for him.
On the drill, he gets beat down until he’s hanging over the edge and Sulu comes to the rescue.
On the Enterprise bridge, Spock makes short work of him.
Was that an in-joke, and if so, is it because the original Kirk lost most fistfights?
BTW, I really liked the lighting when they were on the Enterprise - that looked like a spaceship - bright and crisp, not like a hotel foyer which is what the bridge looked like in TNG.