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    Spock's mystical teleportation

     

    This isn't as much something I didn't like as much as something that confused me. How does Nimoy-Spock go from being left on the ice planet to being in the hangar with Quinto-Spock?

     

    Vulcan getting destroyed

     

    Vulcan getting imploded. That's quite quickly a thumbs-down for me, simply because as we learned in Season two, episode one(Episode thirty of the entire series), every seven years the Vulcans need to return to the planet to mate. They don't get to Vulcan they die. Seriously. I know it sounds strange, but it's how it is. Personally I felt this was kind of odd in TOS, but nevertheless as the Vulcans of TOS are the same Vulcans of this movie it should be respected. And we know that they figure out a way since Nimoy-Spock is still alive. I mean, sure, maybe his idea of a colony could work, but at the same time it's somewhat questionable. However, the ending clearly set up for a sequel. If maybe that's part of the premise of the sequel, saving what remained of the Vulcans, then I'm fine with this and applaud Abrams for setting up his sequel. Not to say I didn't like the scene. It was dramatic, and I did like the location, it got kind of Indiana Jonesish at times("Oh god, Vulcan's getting blown up. Everybody into the apparently nuke-proof 1950's fridge!")

     

    The brig planet

     

    So, Kirk just had a tantrum on the bridge and was subdued by Spock, who at the moment is captain, an right as you think he's going to say "Get him off the bridge" he says "get him off the ship". And they launch him onto a barren ice planet. I know in the 16th an 17th centuries and stuffs that occasionally rebellious crewmembers would be marooned on an island, but there's a difference between an island in an ocean and a planet in space.

     

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    1. Probably the same way that Kirk and Scotty made it to the Enterprise. He had the trans-warp equation memorized, as evidenced by his giving it to alterna-Scotty.

     

    2. This was touched upon in Voyager. It's not the planet itself that they need to get to, its the people. Tuvok was able to make do with the holodeck. I imagine similar circumstances could be used for the surviving Vulcans.

     

    3. The sensors in the pod used to deliver Kirk to the ice planet detected the Federation outpost. I imagine the Enterprise picked up the signal coming from the planet, and thus why Kirk was dropped on that particular planet.

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