Need some help with some plot points

[Duane]

While I loved the movie, there are a few points that really bug me. Maybe I missed something. Any help clearing these up would be appreciated:

1. During the fight sequence on the drilling rig (just after the space jump), why doesn't Sulu have a phaser? I saw Kirk lose his.

2. When Spock learns he has only minutes to get down to Vulcan and save the elders, why does he go on and on talking to Uhura when he enters what I think is the turbolift? If he had saved these precious seconds Amanda might have lived. It would have been more dramatic to have the doors close between him and Uhura before he has a chance to tell her where he is going, and the conversation could have been continued via intercom in the turbolift or via communicators.

3. When Chekov rushes to the transporter room ("I can do that! I can do that!) he exits the bridge to his right (when facing the viewscreen.) When Spock rushes down to Vulcan, he exits the bridge to the left. These seems odd to me but possibly the transporter room is more or less directly behind the brdige so it doesn't matter which way you exit.

4. What happended to Spock after his discussion with Uhura (point 2 above.) It takes him a very long time to get to the transporter room.

 

[M'Sharak]

Your Spock/talking/transporter questions are being discussed in this thread, the matter of the turbolift and door locations here. As for Sulu's phaser, I have the idea that he got the sword out to slash his shroud lines before the chute could drag him off the platform, and was confronted by a large Romulan opponent almost immediately. He defended himself with the weapon he already had in his hand.

 

[Jeri]

In the book it says that all their weapons were under a couple of layers of heat-resistance flight suit -- and that Kirk couldn't get his out before the Romulan started in on him.

He did manage to get it out, but it wasn't easy. So, maybe like M'Sharak says, it was just better to go with the weapon Sulu could get out.

 

[Duane]

Thanks, M'Sharak. I need to read this board more often.

 

[M'Sharak]

Thanks, M'Sharak. I need to read this board more often.

No problem. It's sorta my job to know what's being talked about where.