There's reason to fake it if he wants to take everyone by surprise.
Again, if you can shrug off a dozen phaser blasts, why bother pretendting to be stunned to get perhaps a half-second advantage over the others?
Maybe they were unsure that anyone other than Khan's blood would work then. He only tested Khan's blood after all, it's the only blood he knew for sure would work.
Nice post-hoc rationalisation. Still made no sense.
So because it looks cool then the movie shouldn't have done it? That's kinda ridiculous. Hiding under water is plausible and it looks cool. There's seriously nothing wrong with that.
No, they shouldn't have done it because it made no sense. They were hiding to get around a never-before-seen loophole of the Prime Directive which states its ok to interfere assuming the aliens don't see you - in which case why not stay in orbit and beam kirk/mcCoy back to the ship? I'm pretty sure there's a good chance that at least one alien would see a structure larger than the petronas towers slowly settling into the sea just a short run from their village?
And okay, if original Star Trek transports sucked when the plot called for it then why do you have such a problem with it in the movie?
Not when the plot called for it. All the time.
Well I rather not have a Star Trek movie with terrible acting, terrible pacing, and where Kirk spends a lot of time sexing up species. I guess we'll just have to disagree on this.
So far as I can remember Kirk never sexed up aliens in the movies. In fact I think the only female he sexed at all was the woman he met in San Francisco in the voyage home
They just have more action and less hippie cultural meet and greet.
That's the entire point of Star Trek, though! Gene Roddenbury's vision WAS a hippy future where man solves problems without warfare, coming together with people of all colours, genders and species to work towards a better future.
if you don't like Star Trek, fine. Just don't create something else entirely and call it Star Trek. In the same way, if I order an onion soup in a restaurant and get a curry, I'm not going to be impressed by the chef arguing that "No one like onion soup anyway, this is more exciting!"
If you want to make a dumb space action movie written by and for ADHD teenagers then you're quite within your rights. Just don't call it Star Trek.