Generally you need to lock on to someone with sensors or have an open communicator channel to beam them up. Remember they didn’t know where Pike was, they had to stun a Romulan guard and have Spock mind-read him.
The truth crayfish was presumably removed after they examined him.
Presumably they could have located Pike with sensors remotely, as he was the only human aboard a ship crewed by Romulans. On the other hand, they seemed to be using the transporter despite deflector shields (presumably) being up, which was virtually impossible in all previous iterations of ST.
That was one thing that bugged me about Pike. Why would you give Earth’s defense codes to all your starship captains galavanting around the galaxy? What the hell do they need those for? Besides, they do realize there are mind-readers out there, don’t they?
How old do you think McCoy is? Do you suspect he went to medical school 25 years before the events of the film?
Also he still went to medical school and McCoy at some time in both timelines entered Star Fleet. I’m sure that involves academy time of some sort. Note that it only took him three years, presumably because he enlisted with an advanced degree.
And is the not going to the Academy thing strongly supported in canon?
Yeah, he was joining star fleet after getting a divorce. I assume he was inducting just like Kirk was. The other people on the shuttle appeared to be first years on leave since they had uniforms. And he was ready to go after the three years Kirk spent racing to the finish line I assume they docked a year off his requirement for having an advanced degree.
Another thing: if the Bridge crew could read the Kelvin’s captain’s vital signs while he was aboard Nero’s ship 20-some years earlier, you’d think they could do the same - and yank him out in an emergency, using the transporter - for Pike.
I assumed that to a lot of other races, the standard Starfleet hail of “This is Captain Haratio Nelson of the Starship Trafalgar” might appear at times to be rather formulaic and possibly a little pompous sounding.
“I dont care about your name, I dont give a rat’s ass about what rank you achieved, I want to know what your intentions are.”
So, instead of Nero addressing Pike by his rank or last name, he addressed him by his first name. He accomplishes a couple things: 1) He insults Pike in a minor way by ignoring the Rank/Title as unimportant, & 2) Assuming he knows much about the sociology of humans, he adopts a greeting known to be usually only used among friends or colleagues. By starting right away on a first name basis, he confuses Pike, knocking him mentally off balance.
I finally got out to see this. I thought it was quite good - an above average movie, but an excellent movie when compared against how much of a disaster it could have been. It’s interesting how perceptions of these things are affected by our expectations.
I went in without having seen much info about the movie. My expectations were pretty low, since I haven’t liked the last couple movies, and there’s so much potential for crap in a reboot like this. Then, there was the scene with little Kirk driving off the cliff, with the Nokia product placement. At that point my expectations went through the floor. I couldn’t believe that scene. It was like something you’d do as a parody of Hollywood nonsense.
So when the rest of the movie was reasonably good, it seemed like it was fantastic.