Comment: Re:WTF?! (Score 1) 431
Sure, make Kirk the youngest CO ever. I'm cool with that. Right up until, apparently, there's not a single officer on the entire ship... except for Spock...
This is the part that I've never been able to resolve. Even if this is a case, and Kirk needs to take command, there's no reason for him to get permanently bumped up 4 ranks.
Abrams clearly wanted to have Kirk as captain of the Enterprise at the end of the movie, and have him as a cadet at the start, but that really wasn't going to be possible in a logical way.