Nagging Questions Thread(Spoilers)

[Franklin]

I don't recall exactly now, but I thought McCoy had ran some tests on the blood prior to using it on the tribble. Testing with the tribble was simply another experiment..

A rat would make more sense. Tribbles are completely alien earth. The tribble was simply for fans. And I guess now they've encountered the trader who was selling them. Because in TOS, they never saw them before DS K7.

A rat? A rat?! More sense? This is "Star Trek" man! Get a grip! Besides, seeing the tribble, even in a cameo, made the movie for my wife. Tribbles and TVH, that's Trek for her. (BTW, that was one big tribble. And as fake as it looked, just sitting there and throbbing, I thought that had to be an homage to the clockwork tibbles in TTWT. CGI can't create a better tribble than that? I'd expect them to be able to make one do the hampster dance if they wanted to -- if anyone remembers that.)

 

[Shilliam Watner]

I don't recall exactly now, but I thought McCoy had ran some tests on the blood prior to using it on the tribble. Testing with the tribble was simply another experiment..

A rat would make more sense. Tribbles are completely alien earth. The tribble was simply for fans. And I guess now they've encountered the trader who was selling them. Because in TOS, they never saw them before DS K7.

A rat? A rat?! More sense? This is "Star Trek" man! Get a grip! Besides, seeing the tribble, even in a cameo, made the movie for my wife. Tribbles and TVH, that's Trek for her. (BTW, that was one big tribble. And as fake as it looked, just sitting there and throbbing, I thought that had to be an homage to the clockwork tibbles in TTWT. CGI can't create a better tribble than that? I'd expect them to be able to make one do the hampster dance if they wanted to -- if anyone remembers that.)

I am betting that Tribble was pregnant.

 

[sj4iy]

I don't recall exactly now, but I thought McCoy had ran some tests on the blood prior to using it on the tribble. Testing with the tribble was simply another experiment..

A rat would make more sense. Tribbles are completely alien earth. The tribble was simply for fans. And I guess now they've encountered the trader who was selling them. Because in TOS, they never saw them before DS K7.

A rat? A rat?! More sense? This is "Star Trek" man! Get a grip! Besides, seeing the tribble, even in a cameo, made the movie for my wife. Tribbles and TVH, that's Trek for her. (BTW, that was one big tribble. And as fake as it looked, just sitting there and throbbing, I thought that had to be an homage to the clockwork tibbles in TTWT. CGI can't create a better tribble than that? I'd expect them to be able to make one do the hampster dance if they wanted to -- if anyone remembers that.)

To be fair, we don't KNOW that tribbles don't have similar physiology to humans, because no one has ever mentioned it before. Can't make assumptions based on no information.

 

[nightwind1]

A rat would make more sense. Tribbles are completely alien earth. The tribble was simply for fans. And I guess now they've encountered the trader who was selling them. Because in TOS, they never saw them before DS K7.

A rat? A rat?! More sense? This is "Star Trek" man! Get a grip! Besides, seeing the tribble, even in a cameo, made the movie for my wife. Tribbles and TVH, that's Trek for her. (BTW, that was one big tribble. And as fake as it looked, just sitting there and throbbing, I thought that had to be an homage to the clockwork tibbles in TTWT. CGI can't create a better tribble than that? I'd expect them to be able to make one do the hampster dance if they wanted to -- if anyone remembers that.)

To be fair, we don't KNOW that tribbles don't have similar physiology to humans, because no one has ever mentioned it before. Can't make assumptions based on no information.

Their biology can't be that different- we know they can eat wheat and chicken-salad sandwiches with no ill effects.

 

[seven14]

...perhaps the additional rage and adrenaline coursing through him during his fight with Spock was enough to fight off the effects of Uhura's attempts to stun him.

This was my thinking as well.

I thought about this as well at the time, but I think for sure he was pretending on the bridge-as he almost immediately opened his eyes and was listening before making his move---so that this way if someone else were to try to drop him they would use stun as well rather then setting for kill which it seems is the setting you would need to truly drop him. Uhura wasn't aware of the correct setting and couldn't make a dent no matter how many shots she fired. I feel even-though Spock knocked him hard enough to go down I bet he was cognizant by the time they beamed aboard.

I would have liked the scene to have continued.

 

[propita]

Scott couldn't get a lock on them for their movements around the platform but the platform was a stable enough target to land her on.

Didn't Chekov beam somebody while at warp? Am I misremembering?

 

[sj4iy]

Scott couldn't get a lock on them for their movements around the platform but the platform was a stable enough target to land her on.

Didn't Chekov beam somebody while at warp? Am I misremembering?

Don't think so. The only times that people have been beamed at warp was Scotty and Kirk in the last film and Khan in this film. Chekov wasn't involved in either.

 

[beamMe]

Scott couldn't get a lock on them for their movements around the platform but the platform was a stable enough target to land her on.

Didn't Chekov beam somebody while at warp? Am I misremembering?

You are misremembering.

And in STID the Enterprise was badly damaged at that point, including the transporters (Spock says so to Khan).

 

[The Green Mushroom]

As Pike told him, the initial plan after his demotion was to send him back to the Academy, which seems a lot for just a false report. Pike's powers of persuasion, of course, saved Kirk from that particular fate, and instead put him in the first officer position.

Considering that Kirk was promoted from Academy senior to captain in a matter of days, there is some sense in Starfleet realizing that maybe they should make Kirk do things the right way. It reminds me of many reports from 18th and 19th century armies where men would be routinely promoted and demoted back and forth from sergeant to private to sergeant. They were too valuable not to be used as leaders, but still "needed" to be put back in their places when they acted up.

 

[starbuck]

Are communicator,s capable of reaching earth from klingon space ,when kirk contact's scotty to ask him to check out the
coordinates.

 

[PsychoPere]

I assumed the handheld communicator was patched into the Enterprise's long-range communications system during that conversation.

 

[ConRefit79]

In this universe do starships not have variable Warp speeds? All I remember anyone saying is lets go to Warp. And the effect reminds Starship Troopers.

 

[BillJ]

In this universe do starships not have variable Warp speeds? All I remember anyone saying is lets go to Warp. And the effect reminds Starship Troopers.

I don't believe they mentioned specific warp factors in Star Trek's two, three or four.

 

[royalfan5]

In this universe do starships not have variable Warp speeds? All I remember anyone saying is lets go to Warp. And the effect reminds Starship Troopers.

I don't believe they mentioned specific warp factors in Star Trek's two, three or four.

I'm pretty sure at least in four they tick of specific warp factors while pulling off the slingshot manuver.

 

[BillJ]

In this universe do starships not have variable Warp speeds? All I remember anyone saying is lets go to Warp. And the effect reminds Starship Troopers.

I don't believe they mentioned specific warp factors in Star Trek's two, three or four.

I'm pretty sure at least in four they tick of specific warp factors while pulling off the slingshot manuver.

You are right. I completely forgot about that scene.

 

[ConRefit79]

In this universe do starships not have variable Warp speeds? All I remember anyone saying is lets go to Warp. And the effect reminds Starship Troopers.

I don't believe they mentioned specific warp factors in Star Trek's two, three or four.

2. Mr Sulu warp 5.

 

[Kpnuts]

I don't believe they mentioned specific warp factors in Star Trek's two, three or four.

I'm pretty sure at least in four they tick of specific warp factors while pulling off the slingshot manuver.

You are right. I completely forgot about that scene.

Abrams and co clearly don't want to get different warp speeds into NuTrek (probably a bit too geeky), but there's a 'Warp Factor: XX' indicator at the top of the viewscreen HUD. I noticed it in the 2009 film. It starts at 0.00 then increases gradully, when it hits 1.00 the ship jumps.

 

[KittyDuran]

Speaking of the "magical" blood - I wonder what happened to the daughter? The last we see of her (beside the pic in the window) is her vital signs improving before the Father leaves. This (I would assume) was Khan's unfiltered blood since we see Khan drawing it directly. Does she live and have side effects (good, bad?), or does the blood eventually kill her? Also, since the wife (Mom) was asleep the only people to know about this was Khan and the Father. Would SF knowing the officer (since he sent the memo taking responsiblity of the act) do a complete research into his family and maybe noting that his daughter miraculously healed?

 

[ConRefit79]

How was Admiral Marcus going to force his daughter to keep quiet if he destroyed the Enterprise? Not to mention it would have been destroyed near Earth so it wasn't the Klingons. And he would have to explain his new bad ass ship controlled by a bunch of guys from Trek's Blackwater Corp.

 

[Jazz]

Why was Khan white?

Honestly, Benedict is a brilliant actor, and was brilliant in the role, I have no beef with him, but they seriously couldn't find an actor of colour to play Khan? One of the most iconic roles in film history and they decided to whitewash him? Seriously? This is why I do not regularly consume Hollywood films.

At least they did not try to put him in "brown" face but still. I literally rolled my eyes and shook my head when they revealed he is Khan.