I used to crap all over Kurtzman's writing partner, Roberto Orci, for being a cliched hack that constantly reused old material (first movie, magic blood! second movie, magic blood!), but I'm seeing now that Kurtzman is the worst at this. He can't even come up with his own ideas (magic blood!), he has to hack away at old Trek tropes, in an actiony way.
The worst part is that I can only assume that he has a staff, who feeds him good ideas, and he shoots them down in favor of a rehash (only with a gender swap!/character swap!).
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