Into Darkness, and Trek '09, being ok movies if consumed in a void is probably the only thing they have going for them. But the biggest problem they have is there is no void, everyone goes in aware of the fact that movies like Star Trek 2, 4 and exist even if they've never seen them, with decades of influence over pop-culture from the property they are all a part of. Given the types of movies he makes, there was just no way a good Trek movie was ever going to come from Abrams. A good movie, maybe, but not a good trek movie.