It just made no sense and was horrifically out of character. Not that I don't appreciate that losing Kirk could break Spock like that, but his vengeance chase of Khan was more than enough to show that.

I thought it was the worst of all the old movie references they were trying to cram in there. It's such an iconic Kirk moment, dependent on a huge amount of history and circumstance, and they should have left it alone.

OMG, your icon is AWESOME.