About How Many People Perished In [SPOILERS]?

[Cadet49]

We can all say that thousands people died but my question is: Why wasn't Kahn punished for his crime. He should have gotten death penalty for his crime. He has more deaths on his hands than Osama.

It could also be argued that Kirk should bear some possible negligent resposibility for those deaths because

Spoiler: Harriman's brig

he had Harriman imprisoned in the Enterprise brig, but then released him, and took him over to the Vengeance, setting the villain in a position to take over the vessel and use it as a weapon. Kirk had a terrorist captured and imprisoned, but then let him out, and then he went onto kill many more people than he did in his first attack - I can'tbelieve that the families of the potentially thousands of lost civilians would not be blaming Kirk for letting Harriman out - rather than seeing Kirk being honoured at his speech one year later at the mrmorial, I could see many people protesting him for negligence, saying he should have turned Harriman over to Marcus, to spare thousands of innocent lives ... the film definitely seemed to gloss over how large the death toll would have been, and the repurcussions and scandal for Starfleet, following such a disaster ...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

There is no death penalty on Earth in Kirk's time. We're civilized by then.

 

[Finn]

Emergency automated mass evac transporters installed in every dwelling, place of business or industrial facility licensed for a capacity greater than 50 persons, per government-mandated public safety regulation.

Everyone in those buildings was rematerializing in Dodger Stadium by the time Vengeance started skipping across the waters.

The Dodger Stadium is underwater by the 23rd Century. It's canon! That means all of those people drowned

 

[Maurice]

From this pic it looks like it took out Telegraph Hill (poor Coit Tower) and its front end stopped about on Broadway or Vallejo. Looks like it took out all the "gentlemen's clubs" as well as wrecked Saloon 2232, which Scotty, Sulu and Bones walked past a moment before seeing the yellow pages sign.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The Dodger Stadium is underwater by the 23rd Century. It's canon!

It is?

 

[Vektor]

It could also be argued that Kirk should bear some possible negligent resposibility for those deaths because

Spoiler: Harriman's brig

he had Harriman imprisoned in the Enterprise brig, but then released him, and took him over to the Vengeance, setting the villain in a position to take over the vessel and use it as a weapon. Kirk had a terrorist captured and imprisoned, but then let him out, and then he went onto kill many more people than he did in his first attack - I can'tbelieve that the families of the potentially thousands of lost civilians would not be blaming Kirk for letting Harriman out - rather than seeing Kirk being honoured at his speech one year later at the mrmorial, I could see many people protesting him for negligence, saying he should have turned Harriman over to Marcus, to spare thousands of innocent lives ... the film definitely seemed to gloss over how large the death toll would have been, and the repurcussions and scandal for Starfleet, following such a disaster ...

It could also be argued that Kirk prevented Admiral Marcus from triggering a full-scale war with the Klingons that could have cost millions of lives.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The Dodger Stadium is underwater by the 23rd Century. It's canon!

It is?

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Earthquake
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Hermosa_Earthquake

In VOY Future's End, Janeway and Chuckles are walking along the beach at Santa Monica, and she says that the whole area sunk in the Hermosa Quake of 2047 and became a coral reef.

There is a mention of Los Angeles Island in the TMP novelization, which fits with the above, as well, but it's not canon in the movie/TV show sense. But since it was written by Roddenberry, some people argue otherwise.

Of course, Janeway saying that the area around Santa Monica sank then got extended into all of Los Angeles sinking, even though the city sprawls over 500 square miles and Downtown LA is about 16 miles from the beach at Santa Monica, so that is beyond unlikely to say the least.

Regardless, Dodger Stadium is a few hundred feet above sea level overlooking downtown and is nestled within Chavez Ravine, so it would probably be fine as long as it was preserved and not replaced by a new corporate named stadium or torn down when baseball died off in the TrekVerse.