[horatio]

Given the villain's seeming superhuman physical abilities the conventional guesses based on the claim that he is an iconic TOS character, Mitchell or Khan, make more sense than this fairly

wild guess.

In STXI we saw the first flight of the E so there can be no captain of the Enterprise before Pike so April would have to hold a different position ... so why use the character in the first place?

Right now I would bet on Khan due to the two ingredients from TWOK being used.