Beaks here...
This seemed to pass by unnoticed the other day, but Slashfilm picked up on it, so I thought it'd be worth throwing out there for rampant speculation's sake.
On Monday, Entertainment Weekly reached out to Peter Weller's agent, Todd Eisner, who commented on the actor's part in STAR TREK 2. Here's what he had to say...
Of course J.J. Abrams is very tight-lipped about his projects,” said agent Todd Eisner, “but I do know that it’s a substantial role and that Peter is playing a C.E.O.
Combine this with Variety's report that there is an older, substantial supporting villain to the main baddie (i.e. Khan), and I can't help but wonder if he'll be the head of the corporation that spearheaded the development of genetically-engineered supersoldiers, which leads to the Eugenics War (in the mid 1990s according to the original series' timeline, which would be unaltered at that point), which results in Khan and eighty-four of his compatriots fleeing Earth in the S.S. Botany Bay. Or will Weller be a greedy CEO who stakes a claim to the Botany Bay upon its discovery by the Enterprise? The latter would allow Abrams, Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof a way out of the "Space Seed" narrative, and perhaps eliminate the possibility of a WRATH OF KHAN remake somewhere down the line (if this newfangled TREK ever gets that far). 'm not a fan of revisiting Khan (if only because there's no topping the "Space Seed"/WRATH OF KHAN arc), but this would at least possibly explore a different facet of the character.
What do you think?
