Explain away…

The Romulans didn’t know their own sun is going nova.
The Vulcan’s or the Federation couldn’t contact the Romulans there sun is going nova.
If a sun goes nova it usually takes a very long time.
The artificial black hole that was supposed to snuff out the Romulans sun but it wouldn’t of frozen it?
The black hole would of sucked in the sun but also can be used for time travel.
Romulan mining ships look like warships and equally armed with a staff that are highly trained in ship to ship warfare.
The ships computer couldn’t figure out that Chekov is Chekov.
Dresses are common for women in the 24 century even if they are in the military.
The Vulcan’s didn’t have any form of Planetary defense to stop the drill.
The Vulcan ship’s computer didn’t’ have a problem with identifying a young Spock with the senior Spock.
Ice planets have drift wood to burn.
Ice planets with breathable atmosphere.
Spock and Kirk landed in walking distance and if Spock knew of the station why didn’t he go their directly after landing.
Earth did have any form of defense not even a shuttle that would of disabled the drill.
in the 24 century ships engines look like a beer fermentation vats.
In the 24 century ship construction uses rivets and steel I Beams
It is possible to be transported in the ships cooling system and not be burned to death.

Whatever

Y’all are running the whole gambit up there. I didn’t address all of these gripes in my own article, but I’m here to reply to one or two of these comments.

I’ll start with Brian objecting to Nero’s plan. Pike challenges Nero with just that sort of logic, but Nero counters that his intention is to eliminate all of Romulus’ enemies –he wants it ‘free of the Federation.’ Eric Bana was brilliant BTW.

As far as the transporter beam reaching the Enterprise at Warp, I have to assume that those equations were invented by Scott much, much later in his life –in fact it could have even been during the run of TNG if you want to count that episode (shudder).

Does it really matter how awesome the Kelvin was? It was very obvious to everyone that Nero owned that ship for days. Lord knows if TNG had had the budget and the imagination, the D would have figured out a way to be cooler ;)

Pike said 8 years to be Captain, graduate in 4 years.

Everything else seems to be covered, except for Winona Kirk being on the Kelvin. In the previous movies and canon, there’s nothing to suggest to me that there weren’t ships with families in Kirk’s time –just not the Enterprise. I think it’s fairly possible that families might exist depending on a ship’s given
mission. I get the idea that the Kelvin thought it was relatively safe where it was and Nero surprised the heck out of them.

Girls don’t change in front of each other? Welcome to the 23rd century =)

“You saved the world, Kirk! Howyadiirrn?”

But…. Two HUGE problems.
1. Spock Prime watching Vulcan implode from the surface of Delta Vega????? Even accepting the universal geography change for the sake of the movie, how close is Delta Vega to Vulcan? Earth’s moon doesn’t even look that big in our sky! Was it some kind of Vulcan telepathy? Like in “The Immunity Syndrome”?
2. OK, Scotty can beam onto a ship at warp. Fine. But the way I saw it, the E had been warping away from DV for hours at minimum. They would certainly be out or range of any planet side transporter by then. So not only does Scotty invent beaming at warp, but he finds a way to extend the range of a transporter far beyond the limits from those in TNG! Alternate time line or not, that just doesn’t compute.

I don’t remember the Enterprise (or that earlier overgunned vessel of which I don’t remember the name) having Point-Defense weaponry. That was my pet peeve, but ultimately I could let it slide. I think that had more firepower than the Enterprise D.

7: Is redundant just like most of these (not Geeks of Doom’s fault BTW). Pike actiually tells Kirk that he can be CAPTAIN of his own ship in 4 years giving him a year to do it once graduated. Kirk tells him 3. Uhura was not already there as Pike clearly states that the shuttle is full of NEW RECRUITS. 3 years is the normal time. Kirk isn’t special there other than the fact that he hasn’t picked up his uniform and gets to be cool and wear a leather jacket to class, a theme that continues throughout the film (sans leather jacket) to set Kirk apart from his peers.

All of these are choices a film maker has to choose to make the best use of time in a movie. None of these things are impossible scenario’s given the subject matter. A movie only has to be possible not probable.

He was placed there by Nero so he could witness the death of his planet, whilst he watched helplessly, just as Nero had suffered the same fate with Romulus. The Jellyfish ship Spock was in had been captured by Nero. And don’t forget, he has about a million years of Starfleet experience (and survival training!) so he could have lasted for a while on the surface of Delta Vega. Why he didn’t make contact with the Starfleet station any earlier I don’t know, but he knew it was there.