Saw the movie last night and have been reading all these threads and I can't wait to see it again. One thing that I can't remember (and read in a different thread) was that when Vulcan was first attacked, how long did it take the Enterprise to reach Vulcan (someone said only minutes). If that's so, why did it take so long for the Enterprise under Quinto Spock to get back to Earth to engage Nero? Granted what I read could be wrong, I just can't remember how long it took Pike to get to Vulcan the first time.
Please help clear this up - travel to/from Vulcan
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We don't really know how long it took.
The way I understood it as i watched was that they went to Warp some time passed and we cut back to the Enterprise when they were a few minutes from getting there. 3 minutes if i remember correctly.
That's why it seemed longer to get from Vulcan to Earth.
The way I understood it as i watched was that they went to Warp some time passed and we cut back to the Enterprise when they were a few minutes from getting there. 3 minutes if i remember correctly.
That's why it seemed longer to get from Vulcan to Earth.
Yeah, it was just three minutes from that one point. There was an unmentioned amount of time before that...during which Kirk was sedated. I doubt Bones would have sedated him for just a couple seconds. Plus he was able to change from his cadet uniform to his medical officer uniform.
Thanks everyone! I really need to see it again, I totally forgot all the time that passed when Kirk was sedated, had marshmellow hands etc..makes sense now!
Another question would be: if the Enterprise is the new flagship of the fleet, why did it apparently take so much longer than the other ships to get to Vulcan, seeing as the battle seemed to be long over when they arrived - Sulu's mishap only took maybe a minute at most. 
Well, you know, Sulu was at the helm and he forgot to pull the handbrake. He might have forgotten other things as well. 
I thought the Enterprise could make Vulcan in less than twelve parsecs.
What?
What?
This movie didn't give me any time to breathe, showing them sitting around drinking tea for 45 minutes while waiting to get to Vulcan would have been boring!
Oh yes, let's just make the story subservient to the Established Warp Factors From Ultimate And Complete Canon Of All That Has Come Before and extend the movie by 2 hours with all the cast doing completely and exactly... nothing.
Newsflash: Warp Drive Isn't Real
Newsflash: Warp Drive Isn't Real
Warp Drive: Might Actually Not Be Impossible
Plus, taking the toll road is a much quicker route to get to Vulcan.
No more than any other Trek. Warp Drive has always functioned at the speed of plot.
But as others have stated, there is a time lapse, however, subtle. The ship warps. We get some brief business. Then we cut back to being just minutes away from coming out of warp.
Besides, we've had Earth some four days warp travel from the Klingon Homeworld in ENT. So going by that then Vulcan should be a helluv a lot closer. Of course, we could come up with the same explanation as in ENT, that the ship traversed a subspace corridor (see Star Trek: Star Charts) at maximum warp to cut down on the travel time.
Moreover, it's a two-hour movie. I'd rather the movie move forward than get hung up on time lag, warp lag, jet lag.
Just be glad the white lady has Warp Drive, not an Infinite Improbability Drive.
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