Keep in mind that the character is supposed to be Indian, used to be acted by a Mexican, and now it’s a Brit. Trek likes to get confused that way, Picard was French played by a Brit, which gives BBCAmerica a cheap excuse to show Next Gen any time they have an hour to kill.
And Kirk was an American played by a Canadian.
Yes, but at least Montalban could be remotely believable given his ethnic look. When I learned that the villain would not be Mitchell and saw the English actor, I thought, there Abrams goes again. Frankly, J.J. is to the franchise what the Doomsday Machine was to the USS Constellation.