I could just write a long, winding tirade about everything I hated in these films. I could incite violence, blood shed and describe various lurid scenarios in which I wanted to see people die. But I'm not going to, because that would accomplish nothing except get me potentially put into a straight jacket and locked away in a padded room for who knows how long.
So instead I'll just mention a few things;
1) What was Nero doing for those 20+ years? I know that in a deleted
scene they actually explain this, but in the theatrical it's never
touched upon. Why is that? Were they expecting us to just assume he was sticking his thumbs up his ass the entire time?
2) Not a single member of Nero's crew realized just how insane everybody
else has become and didn't object to galactic genocide? Even that piece
of garbage Nemesis proved that there were Romulan's who were horrified
at such a concept, and that was only Earth as the target.
3) The entire concept of red matter. People love to talk shit about Voyager for the amount of things it just pulled out of its ass, but this is worse than even Threshold. I mean, even that gave some solid evidence as to why Warp 10 was never going to be used. Again, anyway.
4) One star exploding was a threat to the entire galaxy? Even if it was the single largest ball of gas that could in theory exist, no star could ever be that much of a threat, even if it collapsed into a black hole.
5) The black hole at the end of the movie. What the fuck? If one tiny drop of Red Matter could create a decently sized black hole, shouldn't the massive amount in Spock's ship have created something on the scale of the super massive black hole in the center of the galaxy? And to get away the Enterprise ejected what seemed like half a dozen warp cores, whose explosions pushed them... away?
6) So how many warp cores come standard on ships in this new universe, and why didn't the ship lose power instantly after the fact because all of the power needed to run TOS era ships was generated from matter/anti-matter reaction of the warp core?
7) What the Hell ever happened to Kirk's mother? She's mentioned once after the whole opening and then she just vanishes.
8) Old Spock completely ignores the Temporal Prime Directive. Worse, he doesn't
even bother to try and correct the timeline, he just lets it go. Why would he ever do this?
9) For a race that's supposed to be about logic and conquering their
emotions because they view them as causing nothing but problems, those
Vulcan's sure are bigots towards human hybrids. You know, the species
that helped them found the Federation and they've been working with for
well over a century now.
10) Engineering... oh god, what did they do to you. You used to be my favorite part of any starship, now you're just something you'd see in a normal water based ship.
And the sequel...
11) Spock complains about Kirk breaking the Prime Directive while he's
busying doing the exact same thing by freezing a volcano to save an
entire pre-warp civilization. I would expect this sort of thing from Kirk, but not Spock.
2) Why did they sink the Enterprise to the bottom of an ocean? No
really, why? They never explained that, and doing so only increased the
risk of revealing their ship. They could have just stayed in orbit and
nobody there would have been the wiser.
3) Nobody saw any of this coming when they hot shotted Kirk to captain in the last movie? Is everybody higher up incompetent? Well actually a lot of Trek has shown that yes, this is true...
4) Why was the super ship following the same basic design as the
Enterprise? What, do all Federation ships now have the same design?
5) Why would you even bother linking the Eugenics Wars to new Trek?
That's one of those things that even old Trek wanted to do away with,
especially considering that we're now almost two decades ahead of when
it was supposed to happen.
6) Spock sacrificing himself to save everybody was a powerful thing in
Star Trek II. They tried to do the same with Kirk, but it didn't have any
of the impact. Worse, it pissed me off when they tried to it and act
like this was some emotional thing. Maybe this is because I just don't like new
Kirk and Spock... or maybe because this was just another attempt at stealing something from a superior source and changing it just enough to not make it the exact same while still abusing nostalgia.
7) Khan's blood can cure death? Seriously? The Genesis Planet causing Spock's rebirth was stupid, but this is even worse! Since they stuck him into stasis at the end of the film, they now have the single greatest medical advancement known to the Federation... which I'm sure they'll never use in any of the sequels.
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