Reply #26: Yeah, there's a few big screw ups. [View All]

I totally agree about product placement being ridiculous (since the founding principle of the universe excludes the concept of brands).

Also, automated police and Kirk buzzing through Star Fleet Academy in three years (cause he's always been the brains of the show?!?)

But unfortunately the two lamest things are straight from classic Trek:

1.) "Red matter" which drives the entire "plot" and which is a figment of some writer's desperately lazy poverty of imagination. But it fits right into a long tradition of taking the easy way out of complex plots with technobabble.

2.) The Enterprise is the only ship in Star Fleet that ever does anything. And on the Enterprise, the only people that ever do anything are the bridge crew plus Scotty. The Romulan ship is, at most, eighty or ninety years more technologically advanced than Star Fleet and is supposed to be a converted trash scow. But a single ship can pop up next to earth and the entire Federation has no ships that can even damage it except the Enterprise? And wouldn't the second officer who, you know, *graduated* the Academy and served on ships for six or seven years be a little pissed that suddenly Kirk is first officer?

But at least the alternative universe is more PC ("its continuing mission" "go where no ONE has gone before"). Strange little ripples from George Kirk's death...