The only scenes of memorability are lifted directly from Wrath of Kahn, and changed enough to pass a plagiarism test.
Therefore it stands to reason that my conclusion is correct. People will always(those with any brains) rather watch Wrath of Kahn. Instead of Star Trek: Into Wrath of Kahn (but different: we promise).
You sound like you COULD be Abrams himself. Defend your plagiarism all you want. You get a pass to ruin many beloved stories because you can make your master money.
I would rather watch Wrath of Kahn on the first video cassette then watch into plagiarism on high definition.
I can’t wait until Abrams ruins Star Wars too. But it never had any depth at all to begin with, so I think it’s a safe bet to let that ravenous progressive hack at the canon of arguably the most widely beloved science fiction story of all time. Let him fill your brain with mush all you want. I for one will not be fooled.
Then you said "Nearly the same dialogue, word for word."
If you don't have the same characters in all the scenes and the same situations then of course logic tells us it is not the same dialogue.
And finally: "Same scenes, with prettier effects,"
And again we have already established not the same scenes being they are different situations with different characters.
If you are going to pose an argument understand words like "exact" have a specific meaning.
And your "You sound like you COULD be Abrams himself." Is hilarious because IF you had actually read the thread you would know I think "Into Darkness" is a stinking Pile of Obama.
Bottom line you used an argument that it is easily disproved. Second if you are rewriting a show and the premise is the timeline has been changed so that you can retell the story there are going to be similarities LIKE some of the same characters but it will be different. For instance in the original Timeline Wrath of Khan plays out when the crew of the enterprise is much older. That is why Kirk's Son is not in Into Darkness.
In the new timeline Kirk and the Enterprise did not encounter the Botany Bay because Khan is awakened almost a decade before that event happened in the original timeline. Therefore Khan's motivation towards Kirk is totally different being Kirk did not strand him on a deserted planet where many of his people died to the nasty little critters that lived there and the catastrophic events that destroyed the neighboring planet (Ceti Alpha VI) and made Ceti Alpha V a living hell.