Corrected entry: Just after the Enterprise gets out of warp at Vulcan, and as they are going under the remains and get parts of the engine ripped of you can see that "The Narada" is not there, yet in the next shot it reappears.
BocaDavie
21st Sep 2010
Star Trek (2009)
21st Aug 2010
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: We know that the only thing that is keeping the Enterprise from being sucked into the black hole that destroyed the Romulan ship is the warp engines, whose force keeps them away from it. However, when Scotty ejects the warp core, there would have been nothing to stop the Enterprise from being sucked in as well, because there was a few seconds between the core being ejected until it exploded inside the black hole.
Correction: Not according to the Star Fleet Technical Manual. The warp core provides a stream of high-energy protons that power the warp engines. Once the core is ejected the warp engines would continue to function until the supply of high-energy protons contained within the nacells is depleted. Think of it this way - your car engine will continue to function for several seconds after the gas tank is removed by using up whatever gas is left in the fuel lines.
2nd Feb 2010
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: On the Narada attack on Vulcan, immediately after the red matter bomb enters the hole previously drilled, Kirk reports this to the Enterprise. In that shot, there is a shockwave seen leaving the hole as if the bomb had detonated, but considering the hole was drilled to the planet's core, it would take (substantially) longer for the bomb to reach Vulcan's core. If the bomb was an adapted torpedo and the shockwave its thruster kick-starting, it doesn't make much sense to have used it first as a drop bomb and then a torpedo (should have been fired, not "dropped") - note that the shockwave appears seconds after entry; plus the fact that the planet's interior is liquid magma, so making a "hole" to its core doesn't make sense since it would be instantly closed.
Correction: All assumptions, unfortunately. We have no idea how this particular bomb works, if it has a first stage cut-off that propels the red matter through the magma or if an explosive thruster kicks in at a certain depth. As is the case with all science fiction technology, unless you can prove that it is impossible we will just have to accept that the device works in the manner seen on screen. Whatever does not make sense with this particular weapon could be explained by the special handling that red matter requires; the same reason that the stuff could not just be transported to Vulcan's core.
28th Dec 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Old Spock seems to know that it is 2258. Yet he assumes Kirk should be in command of the Enterprise by then. In the prime universe Spock is from, Kirk doesn't become captain until 2265. And if Spock is simply suggesting that Kirk could be captain now, his knowledge of Starfleet should tell him otherwise.
25th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie after Spock beats up the bully, there is a scene with his father. In the first shots in that scene, you can see sunlight shining through his ear. His inner-ear lights up a bright red. The red comes from the blood in your veins going through your ear. However, it is well known and also seen in the scene (blood on his lip) that Spock's blood is green. So shouldn't his ear light up as bright green? (00:14:40)
25th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When Scotty ejects the warp core and detonates it to escape from the black hole, they ride the shock wave out of danger, then jump to warp speed - without a warp core.
27th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Phasers are energy based weapons, yet when Spock and Kirk are firing their phasers aboard the Romulan ship, it constantly sounds like bullets ricocheting off metal.
Correction: The phasers that we know of from the original series fired a laser-like steady beam for as long as the trigger was held down. The weapons in this alternate time-line appear to be firing energy-based projectiles - not a beam, even though they are still referred to as "phasers". The projectiles fired from these weapons apparently make the noises we hear when striking metal.
11th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Every time someone is beamed to and from the Enterprise, they appear at their destination in the body position they were in when they were transported. But at the film's conclusion, Spock is beamed from a sitting position in the pilot's chair of his craft, and re-appears on the Enterprise's transporter pad standing up.
Correction: There is no rule against moving during the transport sequence - we see it several times during the film (Spock's mother turns round, Kirk and Sulu tumble repeatedly). We only see the very beginning of the transport sequence with Spock - he's then not shown until he materialises on the pad several seconds later. He simply felt the sequence commence and stood up to avoid an undignified arrival.
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Correction: You cannot see it in the shots of the Enterprise going through the debris field; it is either obscured by the debris or off camera. Its does not disappear then reappear; it only comes into sight when the Enterprise clears the field.
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