I still really don't like that they cast British Columbia as Khan.

I'm okay with what they did with Khan assuming that this is merely their introduction to the character. Certainly, this is more epic than the modest appearance he had in the Original Series. There's no way that this measures of to Wrath of Khan, since that film was far more personal and dealt with more permanent character developments, but I'm assuming that this could potentially lead up to another film down the road with an epic confrontation between Khan and the Enterprise where he goes all out and truly does prove himself their most worthy adversary.

My main quarrel with him was that they cast a white actor for him. I mean, the original actor was Mexican and more closely resembled what the character should have looked like. If the name wasn't a dead giveaway, his writers considered him a Sikh from Northern India. His empire on Earth covered basically all of Asia. Elements of his personality were similar, although he wasn't as philosophical as Ricardo Montalban's Khan, and overall I feel that this didn't necessarily have to be Khan, which is why I still often refer to him as John Harrison. I appreciate the attempt to avoid imitation, but to me, he's a different character.