I didn't like that he chose Kahn as the bad guy. Why? Just because the original movies had Kahn as number 2? It also put him out of character and timeline. According to the original series, he should still be on the botony bay, on his way through galactic space. He was put there by the Earth government in the 2000's after the great war. It just ruined the Star Trek timeline with an unneeded tie to the original movies. They had started to set Pike up to do the Glass Menagerie. They should have kept that.