No it’s not. It’s pointing out that they hold the show in too high a reverence. The fans really are a big part of why Trek canon because an unwieldy mess, they’re the ones that started keeping track of which button Sulu pushed. TOS had no real canon to speak of, major parts of Trek (including this whole “Federation” thing) were popped in after the show was running. It’s obsessive fans that analyzed every frame and tried to turn a show that really had no cross episode continuity into a cohesive structure. Then Rodenberry went and encouraged them by trying to solidify the canon in TNG and thus the albatross was born.
Back in the day “reboots” were common. Except nobody called them reboots, everybody just understood that the new Flash Gordon series/ serial/ comic wasn’t going to try to pick up the continuity of any of the ones that came before. Everything was stand alone, even when it had familiar names.
Who says Khan’s any different? He’s in different CIRCUMSTANCES but we don’t know if the character changed.
I agree he shouldn’t have picked up Khan. ESPECIALLY not for the second movie. I understand the temptation, Khan’s one of the best characters in the history of Trek. But this puts him on a bad path of mirroring the first movies, should have picked up somebody else.
Remaking or rebooting films is fine if you don’t really care about the characters. Star Trek fans love their characters and to make this horrific mistake is just unforgivable. Ricardo Montalban is Khan. To have some English twit play the role is sacrilege.