Sadly, she was assigned to the Farragut.
Not if he beams into cramped surroundings. It’s one of the minor nits, but it was just so odd that it took me out of the movie.
I dunno, personally I loved the idea of Kirk NOT getting the girl this time. I remember Dax from DS9 had a thing for Spock as well. Besides, I got the feeling that Vulcan’s destruction & his mother’s death motivated him into becoming more serious & possibly making him spurn romantic relationships. I mean, he pretty much brushed off Uhura afterwards & she looked like it was more than a “not now” kind of thing.
I dig Kirk-not-getting-the-girl as much as I dig Kirk getting his ass kicked every fifteen minutes, but Spock? Again, odd.
Not having seen much of that series, I don’t get the reference. But it WAS established in this movie that everyone’s lives were altered the second Spock & Nero showed up in their time. Maybe not as drastically as in “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, but it’s clear that absolutely nothing from any previous series or movie is set in stone anymore.
Enterprise is, sadly, intact in this reality as it predates the destruction of the Kelvin, but they had an episode that established that the ‘slave’ girls are really the masters, and they exert their control through pheremones. Not the sort of people you’d want in Starfleet, I think.
Wow. NICE racial slur there. And you’re a moderator here? As for the sword, I don’t see the problem. Sulu seemed to pull off a number of martial arts moves for someone trained in fencing. The sword seems more appropriate for his fighting style.
To be fair, I’m assigning the slur to the writers. Although I don’t think it was racism per se, but either laziness or lack of research. Sulu was a student of western fencing (he had a fascination with Musketeer-era France.) Sure, he could have had multiple disciplines, and The Kelvin’s Destruction Changed Everything, yadda yadda. Give him a foil. That’s more interesting for the character.
I think that’s the point here, to show that Kirk is the exception and isn’t willing to accept that test’s deadend outcome.
The point in the Prime timeline is that he cheated and never truly faced the scenario. Here he did. Twice. Lesson learned, why would they even allow a retest? It doesn’t make sense.
While this is an age-old chase occurrence that doesn’t seem to make sense, I’d guess that the predator is more focused on catching the moving target than it is on eating. Sure, it’s most likely he’s hunting for food, but it’s not impossible that he might be going after an intruder on it’s territory. So it either makes sense or doesn’t depending on your POV.
That’s the best explanation I’ve heard. Still, would it have been that much harder to have him wolf down the shaggy thingy and then chase Kirk?
I had a problem with both Spock and Scotty being on the same planet that Kirk just happened to be dumped onto. But Spock did indicate that his younger self must not be even made aware of his older self’s existence. The idea of meeting your future self has long been a sci-fi tradition of implied doom or something to be avoided at all costs. Of course, this doesn’t explain why Spock DOES go to meet his younger self at the end, I guess he got homesick haha.
He does offer an explanation, but it just adds up to “I was withholding information to advance the plot.”
This reminded me of Khan’s “wish to go on hurting you” from Star Trek II. I’d guess that Nero realized the Enterprise crew pulled something & chose to not risk getting caught up in the singularity. It’s not specifically stated WHEN he marooned Spock, but it could’ve been a last-minute decision. Spock hadn’t met Scotty until Kirk came along, so he may not have been there before the Narada arrived at Vulcan.
The marooning makes sesnse, sort of, but the nearness of Delta Vega (which should be out on the edge of the galaxy) to Vulcan is just weird.
Except your car’s engine isn’t likely to explode. Scotty was hoping the cores’ explosion would provide enough force to propel them out of the singularity’s pull. Since they were already at (I assume maximum) warp & losing ground, there wasn’t much to lose by trying.
If your car is going fast enough, ejecting the gas tank and exploding it isn’t going to help. And that’s in an atmosphere, where you’d have a pressure wave.
Damn, just make Scotty do something with the polarity of the neutron flow.
Most likely a need for new Captains after losing most of them to the Narada, combined with Kirk’s field promotion to First Officer & then to Captain, as well as him saving Earth. Seemed pretty rationalized to me.
Well, they don’t have a lot of Captains but then they don’t have a lot of ships… I dunno, would it kill them to have him at least graduate before the broo-ha-ha?
I sure hope so, I don’t know that I’d be able to read through a list of disagreements from a movie you HATE, let alone respond to it.
If I hated it, I wouldn’t have bothered with a list 
