Comment Re:first post! (Score 1) 820
and while I too enjoyed the film, my complaints (within it's universe and `science`) were:
1. Did the planet Vulcan, a founding member of the Federation, not have any planetary defenses? I find it hard to believe that a single miniscule (in planetary scale) mining vessel can destroy planetary defenses AND starships at the same time. I buy the fact that it wiped out the starships as it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
2. Even though half of starfleet of the Constitution class starships got wiped out at Vulcan, Earth didn't have any defenses either?
3. Delta Vega is apparently a moon of Vulcan. Why didn't that moon get destroyed in the black hole?
4. Where was the Narada when it was drilling Earth? It wasn't Saturn was it? If it was Earth, why didn't Earth (or did it?) get destroyed when the entire mass of the Red Matter destroyed the Narada?
5. The Narada didn't seem to suffer any damage from the Kelvin when it activated it's warp core on impact.
6. It seemed like you could get to Vulcan pretty fast from Earth. In the original Canon, I seem to remember a consistency of distance and time to get to other star systems. I know this is brand new and pretty much wipes that idea out but I hope that they stay consistent with that distance.
Other than that, it was great.
1 and 2. It is a bit of a stretch, but keep in mind the Narada was over a hundred years more advanced. Also, after the destruction of Romulus, it was outfitted with the best weapons the Romulans had (retrofitted Borg stuff). It would have been a (probably smallish) threat to the "modern" (circa 2380s) Federation.
3. That's not how black holes work. Black-hole Vulcan has the same gravitational attraction as regular Vulcan.
4. It was above Earth, but had flown past Saturn, or something. They warped away after Spock, remember. Though, it's unknown how far away.
5. It probably just wasn't destroyed. They had 20+ years to repair it.
6. Yeah, the whole warping-to-Vulcan-in-5-minutes thing was annoying.
