Little touches you liked about the movie...

[Charles Phipps]

Here's mine:

1. Christopher Pike doesn't get turned into a quadriplegic shadow of himself. Presumably, the Bruce Green version will be able to have a semblance of a normal life.

2. The Romulan vessel wasn't some sort of DOOM SHIP from Mordor like people thought but actually just a gigantic Exxon Valdez.

It's just that it's the equivalent of said ship showing up at the Battle of Trafalga.

3. Nero acts like a deranged trucker whose spent the last twenty years in prison for half the movie until you realize, well, he is.

4. Kirk's promotion was slightly more acceptable to me when I realized every single officer on the ship was a cadet. Either Starfleet is really overbuilding its navy or the equipment is too new for anyone but cadets trained in it to use it.

(I also understand that Starfleet just works on rules no one will ever comprehend or understand)

5. I bust a gut when I re-watched the movie and realized that Scotty said Admiral Archer when talking about the man's dog being vaporized.

Poor Porthos XXIII!

 

[BillJ]

That the Bones nickname is a private joke between Kirk and McCoy instead of being derived from Sawbones.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A really little thing: When Pike launches the shuttle with Kirk, Sulu and Olsen on board, he pushes up the thruster(?) levers with his right hand in the exact way Spock does in "The Immunity Syndrome"

When Nero yells "WAIT!" and zooms in on the viewscreen, the angle of the Enterprise is so similar to one of the endlessly-reused TOS views of the ship.

 

[Hythlodeus]

fencing sulu was a nice touch. naked time is one of my favourite episodes.

 

[6079SmithW]

Pine's Shatner moments, like the uncanny "Bones!" and how he punched the com switch off after "Kirk out."

 

[M'Sharak]

Pine's Shatner moments, like the uncanny "Bones!" and how he punched the com switch off after "Kirk out."

Even though I can't think off the top of my head of a TOS scene which is an exact parallel, there was something very Shatner about Pine's delivery in the Jellyfish scene of "Spock... it'll work."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- The whole scene where we first meet McCoy

- Spock's line: "I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it."

- The warp effect

- Pretty much every line Nero had (especially the shouting)

 

[Sabataage]

Mentioned before, but: All the activity on the bridge. You hear overlapping dialogue and people moving back and forth in the background, independent of what the main cast is doing. Also the fact that everyone on the ship is a super competent genius gives an air of plausibility to Kirk and Spock going on away missions. There's plenty of people who are just as talented as they are who can run the ship in the absence.

 

[Alrik]

The TOS Bridge and transporter sounds. Both made me smile.

 

[6079SmithW]

- Spock's line: "I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it."

Kirk: "See? We're getting to know each other already." *slap*

Pretty much every line Nero had (especially the shouting)

SPOOOOOOK!

I also liked the throw back to The Cage/WNMHGB uniforms with the Kelvin uniforms (blue and beige).

 

[F. King Daniel]

On the Kelvin at the start, the TOS phaser and torpedo noises being used on the bridge as firing confirmation sounds! It was so awesome to hear the classic "be-bew!" on the bridge and then cut to "ZHUUUT!" red-hot laser death in an exterior shot.

 

[DrBashir]

Mentioned before, but: All the activity on the bridge. You hear overlapping dialogue and people moving back and forth in the background, independent of what the main cast is doing. Also the fact that everyone on the ship is a super competent genius gives an air of plausibility to Kirk and Spock going on away missions. There's plenty of people who are just as talented as they are who can run the ship in the absence.

Except for the transporter operators who needed Chekov to show them how it's done

And the communication office Uhura replaced.

 

[SheliakBob]

I liked the green girl. Think she should've gotten a LOT more touches.
...
What?

 

[DrBashir]

I liked the idea of an Orion at Starfleet but I thought she was about the least attractive green Orion woman we've seen. Something just didn't seem right, she came across like a human painted green.

 

[Nerd unRage]

The tribbles in the cage when we first meet Scotty. I didn't even notice them until I re-watched the movie with the commentary on. They even make that guinea-pigesque noise.

Pine's deliver of "Bones!" at the end of the movie when they are on the bridge.

Pike's whistle when he enters the bar.

All the little Trek noises when they are out in space. The little "bloops" and that whirly kind of noise.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I liked the idea of an Orion at Starfleet but I thought she was about the least attractive green Orion woman we've seen. Something just didn't seem right, she came across like a human painted green.

It's noteworthy given she's Scarlet from the G.I. Joe movie.

 

[backstept]

I think the movie suffered a little from having the Klingon prison cut out
it adds weight to Nero's crazyness and explains a bit why he talks like his lip is numb and his ear is chewed off etc

 

[Cyke101]

Pine's Shatner moments, like the uncanny "Bones!" and how he punched the com switch off after "Kirk out."

Even though I can't think off the top of my head of a TOS scene which is an exact parallel, there was something very Shatner about Pine's delivery in the Jellyfish scene of "Spock... it'll work."

For that matter, when he first met Uhura and tried to clumsily flirt with her, looks away from her and cracks a goofy smile, thought that was remarkably Shatner-like. There's just something slick about those Kirks.

- Spock's line: "I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it."

If only someone told Saavik...

Anyway, my small touches:

-the sound cutting out when Hapless Ensign is blown out the hull breach on the Kelvin
-the use of old Kelvin-shuttles alongside newer shuttles when bringing the cadets up to the Enterprise -- I always liked that juxtaposition of old and new in TNG and DS9 like seeing Akiras, Nebulas, and Sabers next to Constellations, Excelsiors, and Mirandas, even if it maybe doesn't make much sense technologically
-"Ambassador Spock" is a TNG term, everybody. And it's used several times in the movie. Woot!
-For that matter, seeing Leonard Nimoy's hologram deployed Tony Stark-style was nice
-Uhura's sarcasm during the Kobayashi Maru
-Kirk's apple reference to TWOK

 

[Pauln6]

For me it was the goosebumps when Pine sat in the chair and his body language totally chanelled Shatner.

 

[ITL]

Pine's delivery of "Mr. Scott!" just after they beam onto the Enterprise. Very Shatner.