Star Trek 11 - Major spoilers inside!

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This movie was awesome.

When it was coming out, I tried my best to not find out anything about the movie apart from who was in it, and only watched the trailers, not any 'special clips' on talk shows and the like. My house was under strict instructions to change the channel immediately if anything came on the TV at all about the film. The odd website I'd be browsing would occasionally have a snippet of information that wasn't buffered by spoiler space and would let me know little pieces of the story. I wanted to un-remember these things, but alas, that is not possible.

Because of these snippets of information, I had a basic picture of the film and when I was waiting for the previews to finish, I was wondering what the film could be like, and how they'd done certain things wrong. My god was I wrong. Upon seeing the complete (motion) picture, I realised that that I'd seen, or read, was wrong. The movie explained almost everything I thought was wrong with it. It all made sense. This was brilliant story writing and directing.

Honourable mention to some of the roles. Pike, McCoy, Commander Spock, James Kirk, Scotty, Robau. There wasn't a weak character throughout, but those mentioned went above and beyond. Special mention also goes to Uhura's room mate.

Really awesome moments - Anything with the Kelvin, Kelvin's shuttles escaping, the Kobiyashi Maru, Starfleet Academy Shuttlebay, Transporting, Sulu leaving dock, Meester Chekow saying Weector Weector, Kirk rescuing Pike, and Pike shooting the Romulan.

Few nitpicks, when they are escaping the black hole at maximum warp, how would ejecting the warp core and detonating push them out? Upon cessation of power to the warp field, the ship would be decelerating and would have fallen in before the detonation could have occurred. The explosion would have been slower than light, and fallen back into the hole before it could have pushed the Enterprise out of range, and not be faster than faster than light drive.

Spock on the turbolift to the bridge. They were NEVER that fast. I'm sure Voyager had an ep where it took about 30s to get from the Bridge to the Messhall. ONE DECK!

The Kelvin. NCC- 0514?. Why not NCC-514. The Grissom didn't have the zero before its registry. The timeline was normal until just before her destruction, so nothing could have been affected to change the numbering scheme. Also one minute to collision? Surely that is enough time to bombard the Kelvin, destroy it, or at the very least, tractor it.

Enterprise launched in 2258, not 2245?

While I'm on dates, Stardates. I can dig that the Kelvin didn't use the Standard Stardate system used in TOS, and that the altered timeline carried that on, but Future Spock's ship's computer used it as well. Stardate 2387xx? It should have been about 64xxx.

Transporting long distances. Even in Voyager, they couldn't transport uber long distances (between 8 and 11 AUs from Saturn to Earth), or longer from Delta Vega to the Enterprise that was warping away and could have been Lightyears away by that point. It was also very doubtless that Mr Scott (who must have invented that algorithm in the last ten years before future Spock travelled back in time) or Mr Spock could have implemented the algorithm on the antique transporters of the past that simply wouldn't have had the power or range to go that far. It would be like changing an algorithm in your bluetooth adaptor in your computer to allow it to send information to the next city. Cannot be done. Different, much more directional antennae and majorly increased power to the device (assuming it wouldn't melt) may have a better chance at it over the stock device, but it simply wasn't designed to work at that range. * Unless they routed the signal through the main deflector like in that Season seven TNG ep, which was not mentioned at any point. Also the outpost didn't have a deflector dish. *

Black holes as time displacement wormholes?

Edit: Corrected some faulty italic formatting.