At this point he should embrace his role as new Kirk, and should just lay back and enjoy the ride. There’s not a more open ended corner to paint one’s self into than to boldly go forth and soak up all that filthy, filthy lucre. A piece of the action, indeed

To be fair, First Contact came out twenty years ago, and it was basically Die Hard On A Friggin’ Starship on a shoestring shooty-shooty bang-bang CGI budget.