1.) nero got the command codes/etc to disable federation defenses along the way - he got them from Pike via the ear wig thingy. The bulk of the fleet was in the ‘other system’
Why Earth had zero local defenses to launch against the drill is a differenet stupidyt.
2.) Nero and the Narada destroyed 37 Klingon ships the night before with its advanced weopanry - its assumed (by me) that when Nero first arrived and encountered teh Kelvin that it was not fully armed and ready - it took the intervening 20ish years for that to happen.
3.) Pike tells Kirk quite specifically that he could be an officer in 4 and have his own ship in 8 - Kirk’s been at the acadamy specifically training to be in command of a ship - he proves his mettle and ‘is exactly what starfleet needs’ - in TOS canon he is the youngest captain as well - that he doesn’t serve as a jr officer on any other ships is a different question.
These require fanwanking, but I will take a crack.
Actually, a lot of time passes between the moment Spock jettisons Kirk over Delta Vega, and the point where the Enterprise apears over Titan.
Kirk recovers from the neck pinch, climbs out of his capsule (the computer tells him he’s 14Km(?) from the Fed outpost), walks a little ways, encounters some wildlife, and gets chased by them, dashes into Spock Prime’s cave, chats with him, continues on to the outpost, chats with Scotty, and gets beamed to the Enterprise (which should have been traveling towards the Laurentia system) while it is at warp, rescue Scotty from the ships plumbing, run about in the Engineering/Brewery spaces, get caught, taken to Spock, piss him off and assume command.
Then the turn around and head back to Titan.
Nero has plenty of time to devastate whatever planetary defences Earth has left. (Should be no ships, because all available ships should have been sent to Vulcan.)
I assume those ships (which Nero detects on their approach to Vulcan space) arrived with their shields down.
Yeah. He, not Spock, got the ship to Earth in time to save it. (Spock wanted to go meet with the fleet somewhere else.) Pike must have had pulled strings, too.
But some fans are not happy with such a meteoric rise in rank.
The only thing I can guess is that Starfleet is not operating as a 20th century military, with time-in-grade requirements. Maybe rank/title comes attached to the job posting.
My guess is that “destiny” is a somewhat imperfect translation of a Vulcan word derived from the verb “shidorau”, “to create, build”. (Interestingly, this somewhat echoes the origin of the word “destiny” in Latin destinare, “to establish”, although not its modern connotations of “unavoidable fate”.)
One’s “destiny” to a Vulcan would thus be the way one could literally make the best of a given situation or constraint. It implies not some mystical doom supernaturally foisted on you or made for you by some Higher Power, but your optimal path through the limitations imposed by reality: the way you can make for yourself.
Likewise, I see Vulcan ceremonies as “spiritual” not in the sense of woo-woo mysticism but in the sense of “spiritual exercise”, like a meditation routine or cognitive behavior therapy. You follow certain prescribed patterns of actions or thoughts in a ceremonial setup because they help promote mental calmness and clarity, which enables you to discern and accept reality and thus make decisions more logically.
(Yup, total geek-girl here. And yes, I love Vulcans.)
Well, the thing is they actually have something mystical going on. They are absorbing the collected memories stored in the halls of montezuma (or whatever), the personalities of all their old dead people. They’re storing them in their own wetware. It’s not like we have a real equivalent.
In regards to the Vulcans being spiritual despite claiming they embrace logic… what, you expect every character to be taken at face value? They’re a bunch of logic posers, same as the humans claiming to be so-holier-than-thou towards any other alien race that shows any kind of vice (a line of BS which Sisko got called out on in one of DS9’s great moments)
In regards to Kirk’s rise in rank? My fan-prediction is that the next movie begins with him in the brig for some thing or another. He seems like the kind of guy who would lose rank as easily as he could gain it.
the biggest question i have about “star trek” reboot, is where can i find the pattern for the sweater that spock wears for the vulcan science academy guys? that is a really nice sweater and i love the colour.
fx has been showing the movie at all sorts of times and days, so i finally saw it, and saw it, and saw it.
really liked the second icy gonna eat kirk monster.
Ironically ENT is the only ST TV series that’s canon in the new timeline.
And let’s not forget that Vulcans have been proven to literly have an immortal soul that can survive death and the destruction of the physical body, the katra. Granted most species in ST do as well, but the Vulcans learned how to transfer it in their ancient history and can do it without using any technology.
She’s the wife of a high ranking government official, the most prominant human scholar of all things Vulcan, and probally has some sort of official position on Vulcan in her own right. Also humans are perfectly capable of receiving a Vulcan katra, even without any prior training. True, from what we’ve seen that does tend to result the human slowly going insane, but it’s possible that with the right training that won’t happen. Hell, maybe the same thing happens if a Vulcan without any mental training at all get’s a (n extra) katra transfered into them.
1.Kirk’s crazy quick promotion, you did see the utter devastating attacks against Starfleet right? Its likely part of Kirk’s promotion was that he was simply one of the most experienced people left standing. Throw in the fact he is a celebrated war hero basically.
2.Kirk getting dropped off close to Spock Prime and the outpost on a big planet, the fact he was dropped close to both the outpost and SP suggests more than chance. It suggests either that area is one of the few areas of the planet that isn’t treacherous mountains or perhaps a churning ice sea, OR simply that Nero dropped off Spock Prime close to the Federation outpost because Nero wanted Spock to contact the Fed and bear witness etc.
3.Imagine an unlikely odd couple who everyone agrees has nothing in common and would likely be a miserable relationship. Except I’m a time traveler from a no longer existant timeline where I know those two will have an amazing relationship despite their differences, I know if they just tried it would work. Thats Spock Prime’s position.
Supposedly, one of the ice monsters in the ST film was supposed to be very similar to the monster from Cloverfield. Somewhere someone told me that JJ Abrams considers all of his films to be in continuity with each other, even if nobody else does.
