Almost every character I play is an Easter Egg homage to something else. 

Also in reference to scope and ability of Intrepid. It is supposed to be. Young rave of space farers don't have the big fancy techno doodads, and haven't yet needed the use of such heavily armed machines. However, I intend to use Intrepid as a repair station for other ships, and spoiler alert, if need be, use the resources on board that were intended to make the resource platform and redesign for a space station. Make a common area for the exchange of technology and information and such while we try to figure out how the hell we are going to escape a lightless deadzone between galaxies.

In regards to the new movies, I haven't seen the newest one yet, but I saw the two previous. I like them. I feel that they are in the spirit of what the original creator wanted to do but was limited by bad acting, low budget, and the technology at the time. And they described the variations in this universe immediately by explaining the duel universe situation with Spock and that's good enough for me! Though, they do perhaps lean a little too heavily on the action sequences in my opinion.