Listening to the soundtrack I am reminded of how awesome Star Trek II was and how it made so little sense. A parasitoid which does something devastating to its host - but whose life cycle isn't connected to the host falling prey to anything. Big spaceships lumbering into broadside range like it's Trafalgar. Handwavey science remakes a disabled spaceship and a chunk of nebula into a planet. The Enterprise has this super-deadly antimatter port etc in a glass cabinet in the middle of engineering.