Burning Star Trek question of the day
So this is what’s keeping me up tonight (not really–that would be revisions). I recently saw the new Star Trek film for the second time (and, yes, I think it is absolutely awesome). But here’s the thing……
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Spock and Nero come backwards in time through a black hole. Clearly they survive or else, hey, we wouldn’t have a movie.
But then the entire climax of the movie is that the Enterprise is about to get sucked into a black hole–and the hull is cracking, things are bad, and clearly if they don’t get free (Scotty–”I’m giving you all she’s got!”), then that’s the end of our new heroes. No suggestion that, oh, they’d just travel back to 2010, or forward to stardate whatever-and-such
Um…anyone else see a problem there?
Not that said problem mucked up my enjoyment of the movie, but I’d really like to know!
January 24th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
You have seen Star Trek before, right? *smirk* Don’t confuse them with the facts. Love ‘em anyway, of course!
January 24th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Ah, yes! You have a point…
January 27th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
And J.J. Abrams was too busy destroying 40+ years of continuity to worry about something insignificant such as keeping things straight in his own movie.
January 27th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
LOL! Actually, that doesn’t bother me b/c they so clearly make it an alternate timeline. I would have been more frustrated if they’d reimagined the same timeline. This way, the canvas is wide open.
January 27th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Presumably the ships of the “future” had much stronger hulls…..
January 27th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
THERE you go! (Except, Nero’s ship was from the future…hmmm……)