- Which helped how? The moment she took the bridge station, nothing happened. In essence, that bit was only meant to expand Kirk’s role, not hers, because it didn’t make any difference if the Enterprise entered Vulcan because it would have still taken the Narada an entire minute to detect the Enterprise.

You’re missing a crucial bit of information from that scene. They were all warping into a trap, unprepared militaristic because they were not intending to fight an powerful enemy but assist Vulcan in an possible evacuation effort. Kirk arrived on the bridge to alert Captain Pike, but it was Uhura’s confirmation and Spock’s acknowledgement that help saved the Enterprise crew to buy them some time to jump into a defensive state.

Kirk was a marked man and was not even supposed to be on the ship or even the bridge. Without Uhura, he would have been thrown in the brig.

Also, had that not happened, the ship would have been a sitting duck and possibly severely damaged.

- Same as above.

Same as above.

- Same as above. The Enterprise wasn’t in any immediate danger when it entered Vulcan and the shields wouldn’t have made a difference in the debris field as it was depicted.

What do you mean it wasn’t in any immediate danger? They warped right into the middle of a vicious attack on a planet and the aftermath of a vicious battle. Her information gave them an advantage to be prepared for what they were to enter. They didn’t enter Vulcan space “blindly” like the rest of the fleet – they were prepared.

- I will. That was only relevant because she was there comforting and reassuring him. It doesn’t make her more important, it just makes her more of a use to the male characters of the show.

The whole movie is about Spock. Not Kirk, Spock, despite what many may say. Every emotional scene was focused on Spock, not Kirk. He was the action hero, hanging from every ledge possible while Spock carried the personal and emotional development.

The whole movie was about how this young Spock has to deal with the fight between picking his Vulcan side and Human side… While the pairing maybe out there in terms of how it delivered, her character helped showcase to the world that Spock wasn’t an emotionless robot. He did have feelings, he did crumble under the loss of his mother, and he did love someone else.

Uhura was his humanity personified, Sarek was his Vulcan(ity) personified. The two characters played a big part on Spock’s emotional display and development in the movie. I do not understand why people just don’t get that.

- And didn’t you also find it weird that after Uhura takes her station that two ‘communication’ based orders go by that she doesn’t take part in? First was alerting Starfleet on what happened to Vulcan which was handled by an off-camera crew member, not Uhura. Than there was Kirk ordering to hail the Narada when it was being engulfed by the black hole. Was it Uhura who said “Aye, sir.”? No. It was Chekov who opened hailing frequencies.

Did you also conveniently missed every other scene when Uhura was in command of her station, announcing when all communication was down? Even in TOS, sometimes Spock would pick up ship transmissions and give it to Kirk. Everyone in the movie outside of Kirk and Spock were completely “useless” by your definition. Don’t simply pin it on Uhura and Uhura alone.

- Again, not only does she not do anything by herself that’s important, her role is strictly limited to ensuring that the male characters move up, not her. Her promotion to the communication’s station may have been nice, but she never does anything while at that station.

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LOL, Sorry. I absolutly loved the new Star Trek and for me and many other ladies we can’t wait to see more of the Spock/Uhura thing. It just has to be more subtle.

I’m already tired of using the word “prime” when referring to the correct universe.

Plus it sounds stupid.

Leave JJ Abrams on his island. Don’t let some arrogant rogue director from outside the Star Trek circle come in and redefine your universe.

Why do you accept it? What does Zoe know about Uhura? Use your time, efforts, talents and treasure to hold JJ Abrams accountable…if not to the “prime” ST universe…then at least to non-lazy, thoughtful storytelling.

And to the guy who likes the “cover art”….take a look at “Uhura’s Song.” We see Spock in a motion picture uniform and Uhura in a classic red uniform. Talk about recycling stock photos. At least match your timeframes…unless you know NOTHING about Star Trek. He must be related to Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci.

Wonder how THAT fits into the “new reality…?”

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>However, I do appreciate when (very rarely) the authors of various TREK >novels try to present the timeframe near the story’s beginning, or even >with a blurb (”This novel takes place during the original 5 year mission, >shortly after the ENTERPRISE’s encounter with the Planet Killer” or >something like that).

Don’t 60% of star trek novels reference City on the Edge of Forever.

Also, on a side note, I just watched Transformers 2. What crap. The reinvigoration of ST was nice; but, after both Romulus and Vulcan, I fear for Kronos and Earth at their hands.