Quote from: Tordelback on 08 August, 2016, 12:39:36 AMYes to all of the above! I thought Sabotage worked especially well because it built on the mythos of this series, rather than the preceeding 40 years - something this movie excels at (for example, [spoiler]Keenser getting his own 'pet' alien, a great new character in Jaylah (tragically well placed to be Chekov's replacement[/spoiler]). It was also a funny and rather joyous sequence - it was impossible not to root for the survival of the marvel that is Yorktown, surely one of the greatest Trek creations to date. In fact, this film gives us all the great SF spectacle that ST(2009) had replaced with brewery vats and breezeblock research outposts.
At the same time the thoughtful use of unloved Enterprise really sold the idea of the alternate timeline having a shared past with the old one.
I hadn't considered that regarding Jaylah but it's a nice little back up option if they can't really figure out another way to include her. It'd feel a little odd seeing her in a crew uniform though.
Probably my favourite part about Yorktown is how it looked like a starship fish tank in places. Good idea, whoever that was.
And as one of the few people who was actually disappointed with ST: Enterprise's cancellation, I love how they made use of that series rather than just try to milk the TOS period. They barely even messed with the prime universe either.