Flying debris?
Probably for the same reason you should hold your breath first too.
He was being transported to an area with uneven terrain that was suffering earthquakes, so my guess is stability.
I had thought he was moving into a confined face, but your explanation makes more sense and makes mine seems silly. Stop that. 
Finally after 18 pages
Anyhoo, I finally got around to seeing the movie and my thoughts are thus
First , regarding Khan. Far as I know , star trek has not done a zombie movie yet, so this would kill two birds with one stone.
Second , what was bones doing in the academy anyways. This bothered me , as he is already a doctor and not a line officer. I would have rathered that he was onboard the Enterprise as a resident, and then promoted when the main medicine man got killed. Good god man, he would have been directly commisioned into star fleet.
Next , Kobyashi Maru scene
It checked off the boxes, but it did not seem to me to be the way that kirk would have done it originally. Now it might be cool with the way he is being a rebel and all, thinking he will get away with it out of sheer arrogance, But I think I would have rather seen him walk out of the sim room, with everyone going how did he do that.
The Narada looked like it was a shadow warship from Babylon 5, but fine no problems. I can see the Romulan empire being one of those governments where private ownership of vessels is non existant and every flagged Rom ship is a naval vessel, hence the ease that it went through taking out something like sixty ships.
Question, was the Kelvin a Dreadnaught class ? The Connies were heavy cruisers by designation so I am wondering if thats where the extra 400 people came from.
Declan
Has anyone mentioned how retarded it was for Kirk to command the ship to shoot the daylights out of the badguy ship while it was getting torn apart by a black hole? What happened to “get us to a safe distance and just watch the most relentlessly powerful phenomenon in the universe destroy the bad guy”? Why would you bother shooting at something being swallowed by a black hole? And the crew all nodded approvingly at him for giving the order to get close enough to shoot!
18 pages, sorry if I missed someone else pointing this out.
Fanwank: If the drives are active they might end up going through time again. Best to blow it the hell up and make sure that he gets eated up good.
Naah, it’s an Affront cruiser. Kiss the Blade, anyone?
I saw it, I liked it. No major complaints. I liked Kirk, FWIW.
The Borg pretty much are zombies. They infect you, someone has to shoot you in the head.
Well, they just murdered 5 or 6 billion Vulcans. Who cares if the black hole would probably have gotten the job done. Even Spock wasn’t in the mood to be logical about it right then. I would have found it very cathartic to be the one to blow the fuck out of them first, too.
…by the way, regarding ‘Admiral Archer’s beagle’ – wasn’t Enterprise about 100 years before the events in this film?
Nepotism never gets old.
Yeah, shoot him five times while he’s down, just be sure.
Porthos survived his cheese addiction to breed more cheese addicted beagles, ultimately leading to the lactose-overdose demise of the breed. Or cross bred with tribbles to make Shiz-Tzu’s, whichever
Why would Khan be a zombie?
Crusher commanded the E-D in a couple episodes of Next Generation. Starfleet apparently follows the Marine and Coast Guard school of thought on line officers.
The ships in this universe are bigger. This Enterprise is bigger than Picard’s second one, which was previously the largest 'fleet ship seen.
Archer would have been 146 at the time of this movie, but I don’t know when Athas (Aramis? d’Artagnan?)[URL=“Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan - Wikipedia”] was beamed into space by Scotty, and, for reference, McCoy was 130, give or take, when he toured the E-D in the first episode of Next Generation.
Kirk blowed it up real good!
People living more than a century isn’t out of line with the Star Trek reality. Although this would be the earliest someone 130+ was mentioned I believe.
And I’m sure it was Porthos V or so that ended up inside a star.
McCoy attended the University of Mississippi.
My cat died earlier this year. I now have a different and more evil cat.
I think Half Man was questioning Archer’s longevity, not his unnamed beagle’s.
I realized that after I posted my felisnark.