Why doesn't Spock Prime go back in time to save Vulcan?

[lawman]

Favorite Trek movies? Or favorite movies, period?

 

[Devon]

Seems to me they offended very few fans as it was.

Exactly. Considering how diverse the fanbase is, there are going to be (and have been) some "offended. " Some installments to varying degrees. This one didn't to any significant degree worth noting (most installments didn't anyway.)

 

[Therin of Andor]

Favorite Trek movies? Or favorite movies, period?

As I've said many times, TMP and JJ's film are my two favourite movies of all time. Period.

 

[2cents]

Who in the Star Trek universe is callous enough to kill one billion people to explore the relationship between Spock and Kirk?

Obviously Spock wouldn't be that callous. Logically he would slingshot around the sun or travel to the Time Portal on another planet. The odds of old Spock and young Kirk happening on the same planet at nearly the same moment are astronomical.

Only one conclusion, old Spock is not really Spock.