You’re the douche for acting that way. You can’t even spell his name right. How moronic. You aren’t allowed to be a Trek fan anymore. You don’t deserve to be one. You don’t have the mental capacity and you’re too close minded.

Also, Captain Pine did not promote cadet Kirk to Captain: Kirk became the ship’s captain when Spock relieved himself from command, haven been promoted to 2nd in command before his mission. Finally, it was Starfleet Academy that officially promoted Kirk to the actual rank of Captain assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise after a proven plan which saved an entire planet, most especially Earth. I also site military tradition in where a cadet has proven himself/herself above reproach they are sometimes given a rank above Ensign or Lieutenant respectably, and in rare cases and time of war or battle. such a person could even be promoted to a command post with post rank.

Having said all of this I find that I should be properly humiliated by Conan O’Brien due to the depth of nerd-dome I performed, and a proud day that would be.

Ack, I will have to write my review of the movie another time as I feel expended from this, I fear, thankless act.

You know that during the away mission, on the view screen under Kirk the display said “Lt. Kirk.”

Also, it’s spell RIDICULOUS, genius.

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It is the biggest load of rubbish I’ve seen since the last biggest load of rubbish I’ve seen. That was Cloverfield. That was a JJ film as well. Him and his mates should stick to what they are good at. Making TV shows. I love Fringe.

It is a Star Wars film in all but name. My reasons for thinking the film is rubbish as a Star Trek film are many.

1) The star ship crews would have beamed up to the star ships, not shuttled up.

2) When the Enterprise reaches Vulcan it is getting hit by debris. It’s shields were up so that shouldn’t be possible.

3) Sulu space dives with a sword! Why?

4) Sulu encounters a Romulan with a sword!! A Romulan from the 24th century with a sword!? What a coincidence. Pah!

5) Checkov has to run down to the transporter room to beam up a plummeting
Kirk and Sulu. Are the transporter room crew incompetent or something? A teenager can do something that experienced Starfleet officers are incapable of doing. What’s wrong with this picture? It would have been quicker to use the ship’s comm’s system to give them instructions.

6) Kirk and Sulu can be beamed up as they plummet to the planet surface. Yet, despite having a transporter lock on Spock’s mother she can’t be beamed up because she has started to fall. They have a lock on her and she isn’t even moving as fast as Kirk and Sulu were, yet she can’t be beamed up. A little inconsistent.

7) There is no sign of Vulcan resistance to Nero either from space or the surface. Did Vulcan really wait until all it’s defences were totally destroyed before sending a distress call? Hardly logical. Considering how quickly Starfleet responded to Vulcans distress call, you’d expect to see some Vulcan resistance still in progress.

8) When Nero is walking around the table Pike is on, he’s sloshing around in water. What’s that all about? Can the plumbing really be that bad in the24th century?

9) Spock is an experienced Starfleet officer, supposedly. So he would have put an insubordinate Kirk in the brig. Not ejected him from the ship. Any Starfleet officer worth his salt wouldn’t be shooting other Starfleet officers into space. It’s not logical and damned ridiculous.

10) Spock Prime knew about the Starfleet outpost on the planet, so why was he hanging around in the cave?

11) Why were present day forklifts being used in the 23rd century?

12) Kirk’s unauthorised use of the water turbine control board was monitored on the bridge. Yet Kirk and Scotty’s unauthorised arrival didn’t even register. What wonderful security systems the Enterprise has. Anyone or anything could have been beamed aboard to destroy the ship.

13) When Spock was beating the crap out of Kirk, why the hell didn’t any of the bridge crew pull him off? All they did was watch.

14) Why wasn’t Scotty wearing a uniform when Kirk and Spock turned up? A bit slack for a Starfleet officer wouldn’t you say? Maybe Starfleet in this time line is a shoddily run organisation.

15) Starfleet must have a severe staff shortage if only Scotty and that alien were manning the outpost. Then he deserts his post and beams out with Kirk and Spock.

16) As for security measures at the outpost, there were none. Kirk and Spock just walked in.

17) Why didn’t Earth put up any resistance to Nero? Again, like Vulcan, no sign of any resistance from space or the surface.

18) Spock managed to fly out of Nero’s ship unopposed. It looks like even 24th century Romulan ships have rubbish security measures.

19) Spock decided to follow the the path of logic, relinquishing emotion. The next thing you know, him and Uhura are all over each other. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE! Yeah right.

20) The Enterprise and Nero’s ship are products of 23rd and 24th century technologies respectively. Yet you see a lot of steam venting on both vessels.Some futuristic technology that is, steam power, and it leaks out around the ships. You’d think maintenance would sort out the leaks.

21) Between the time Kirk was ejected from the Enterprise, to the time he and Scotty stepped into the transporter, the Enterprise would be light years away. Well out of range of a transporter. The formula was to make it possible to transport onto a vessel MOVING AT WARP SPEED. NOT LIGHT YEARS AWAY! If you could beam that sort of distance, then you wouldn’t need star ships to get about. If the Enterprise was near them, moving towards them at light speed, that would make sense.

This is why I think it is a rubbish Star Trek film. Plus, I hate all the redesigning that has been done, even accepting explaining it away as a result of being an alternate time line. Open walkways instead of corridors. All the plumbing and girders the characters walk past are not Star Trek design features that I can accept. It’s present day technology you can find on today’s cruise ships below the passenger decks. But I’ll bet you you won’t see any steam venting all over the place. For a 24th century vessel, Nero’s ship looked like a dingy heap. Romulans don’t go around with shaved heads covered in tattoos. Basically I found most of the film totally unacceptable as a Star Trek film. If you can ignore the plot holes it’s an OK action romp. Nothing more. My friend tells me that there is a comic, sorry, graphic novel, that gives the background to the film and explains some of my gripes. Well, if the film can’t tell the whole story, and has to rely on a publication to do the job then it’s even more of a rubbish film than I thought. So, it’s not a case of watching the film with the intention of not liking it. I found lots of things wrong with the film that just jumped out at me, which have formed my opinion and ruined my enjoyment.

Star Trek was born with The Original Series. Grew up with The Next Generation. Matured with Deep Space Nine. Became terminally ill with Voyager, and died with Enterprise. Now with ST 11 it has joined the walking dead. Star Trek is now dead. Please let it rest in peace.
As a Star Trek film I give it 0 out of 10.
As a Star Wars imiitation 5 out of 10.
Philip from Bournemouth, England.

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