Biggest Plot Hole?

[SalvorHardin]

...You mean no one though to fire anything at the drill while it was drilling a hole in the planet's surface. Even if we figure out thatthat the Vulcans either had no weapons or were not sure to fire on the drill, once it starts hitting Earth they should have been shooting all sorts of stuff to try to destroy it.

That, and the fact that the guy destroys Vulcan, Spock and Kirk are arguing over where to go and what to do, but no one checked out where Nero was headed and figured he might try to do the same thing once he got there?

I think Nero kind of tells Pike that he will not only SAVE ROMULUS but will ensure that it lives free of the Federation (I am pretty sure he planned to take care of the Klingons as well). So he probably would have saved Romulus, but first things first, Revenge.

Im pretty sure any ships that were in a position to attack the drill were easily destroyed by the Narada before they could get close.

When Spock was manuevering to ram Nero's ship, they "fired everything" at him. That amounted to what, a dozen torpedos? When the Federation fleet arrived in Vulcan, they should have had at least one or two shots at the "barbed wire" above the drill platform. Given that the Enterprise herself took out all of the "fire everything" torpedos, it's non-sensical that a fleet couldn't get a shot into that platform or the cables holding it up.

or Nero had hundreds of torpedoes when the fleet arrived but by the end of the battle he was left with a couple of dozen.

Besides, the Federation ships were probably trying to damage crucial systems of the Narada while getting their asses severely kicked by its surprise attack.Bridge, engines, weapons.

I somehow doubt their firing priorities while under heavy damage would include some drilling platform, especially since they didn't know anything about Red matter or a black hole sucking the planet evil plan

 

[The Comedian]

I thought the whole time travel thing was the biggest plot hole. Nero went back in time. From that point onward, there were two parallel timelines, the Prime one and the nu one. So since Spock Primewas not thrown back in time as far as Nero was, he wouldn't have gone back far enough for the split to affect him. He would still be in the prime timeline. And if creating a new universe destroyed the old one, there would be no Spock Prime to travel back in time at all.

Thoughts?

Clearly, Romulans are lunatics.

For example, Shinzon - a human, but a product of Romulan culture - was abused and neglected by Romulans. What's he want to do with his superweapon? Destroy Earth, even though he's never even SEEN a human.

Nero could have easily averted the destruction of Romulus without firing a shot, but he's infected with the same cultural nuttery, though with slightly more justification. Vulcan, I can sorta understand, but Earth? WTF did EARTH have to do with what happened to Romulus?

 

[Jeyl]

Biggest plot hole?

Transwarp-FREAKING-Beaming

This is the stupidest plot device I've seen in Star Trek. To think that the transporter usage in this movie was much more interesting than some of the other Trek transporters (a quarter sized transporter?), but when Spock gives the Transwarp Beaming equation to Scotty, everything that was great about the Transporter was now gone.

The trouble with the way it was handled was how it just did what it did without explanation. Spock puts the equation into the computer. Ok, but how does that give him the coordinates to the Enterprise?

And once that's done, the equation is entered on the Enterprise so it's now become a standard. You can now transport anywhere over any distances.

bull-fu&*$@-sh^%

If you can transport from one part of space to another even on an object in the middle of warp speed, what's the point of starships? Transporters were practically written to be a very limited in how far they could transport something from one place to another. They put this rule in because if we could transport any where, that would defeat the whole purpose of having to be on a Starship. It was a rule that every writer understood and very seldom broke.

I do not like the Transwarp Beaming and I personally believe it takes away from Star Trek than adds to it.

 

[Anticitizen]

I thought it was extremely lame also. It was a Plot Facilitator (the movie had at least a half-dozen).

 

[Jeyl]

Oh, the exchange

Kirk: Oh, going back in time and changing things? That's cheating.
Spock Prime: A trick I learned from an old friend.



Uh, what other choice did Spock have? It's not like he deliberately chose to travel back in time to stop Nero. Nero has already altered events significantly, and Spock Prime just happens to be there and helps Kirk out.

How is that cheating?

 

[DWF]

Nero should've destroyed the Enterprise after Vulcan was destroyed, then he never would've had to face Kirk and Spock again.