Okay, you know what kinda-sorta-maybe starts to fall apart once you’ve seen it 100,000 times? The script to this movie.
What, precisely, does Spock Prime have in mind when he sends Kirk back to the Enterprise? I know, I know – it is that the K/S love has to happen, yeah, I get that – but, on a concrete level, how is sending Kirk back essential to stop Nero? And why does Scotty go with him?
And how to they get from their near-rendezvous in the Laurentian System all the way to Saturn in, like, 30 seconds?
The answer to the second question is also the answer to the first. Scotty “updates” the warp drive. Lucky bastard Kurtzmann & Orci really can’t be cornered on this one. Send me some red matter.
Congratulations on your completion of the ‘original’ guidelines of The Star Trek Project!!! Go celebrate with a beer or something. This message will self destruct in 5,4,3,2,…
Really like this movie, but can’t stand Eric Bana as Nero. He comes across less like a wronged Romulan and more like a small-time Cleveland bookie. Other than him, the cast was perfect, especially Bruce Greenwood as Pike and Karl Urban as McCoy.
The destruction of Vulcan was a huge plot risk that really raised the stakes for our characters, and of course, changes the shape of the Federation forever. Perhaps it will allow them to become allies with the Romulans much sooner than in the previous timeline.
Can’t wait to see what they do with the next movie.