Corrected entry: The Kelvin computer tells George Kirk that the auto-pilot is disabled, leading him to decide to remain behind. He fires the ship's weapons to protect the escaping shuttles. Once the shuttles are safe, the status display shows that weapons are offline. Kirk sets a collision course and then sits in the captain's chair for a couple of minutes and does nothing else but talk to his wife and await his death. If there's no auto-pilot, how did he program the collision course and why would the computer follow it? Shouldn't he have to be at the helm flying the ship manually? And if not, why isn't he trying to get to an escape pod? According to the readout, he has at least a minute.
GalahadFairlight
28th Dec 2009
Star Trek (2009)
26th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: During the discussion on the bridge about how to attack Narada, Spock says he will beam aboard and "steal back" the red matter device. However, at this point, Spock does not know that the device was stolen from elder Spock in the first place.
Correction: Simply a figure of speech, it doesn't necessarily imply that Spock knew that elder Spock was the originator of the device.
7th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At one point you can see a computer running Windows XP. If you look at the bottom of the screen you can see the distinctive blue and green taskbar.
Correction: Where? What scene? You'll need to resubmit this 'mistake' with a clearer indication as to where it occurs, it's just too vague.
7th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When James Kirk is riding his bike to the ship yard, it is a futuristic bike with an apparently clean energy source, but when they show him in a later shot from the front you can see the smoke from the motorbike.
Correction: Smoke, or steam? We are given no clue onscreen as to how the bike is powered, so its rather presumptious to assume the 'smoke' coming from it is not clean.
4th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie Captain Kirk dumps the core to escape from the black hole. This would have been impossible as the Enterprise was already at warp and dumping the core would have terminated the Enterprise's engines, therefore leading to the destruction of the ship.
Correction: The Enterprise can continue on impulse power which is not derived from the warp core, and considering the warp explosion is the reason for pushing the Enterprise away and the black hole has absorbed some of the energy from the explosion, is why the Enterprise is not destroyed. Not a mistake.
Actually detonating a warp core powerful enough to power a warp drive to move the enterprise at speed much faster than light speed would vaporize the ship as the blast would be as powerful as hundreds of nuclear bombs. Even the black hole shown in the movie would not absorb enough of the explosion to keep the ship from being destroyed. Now you might be thinking"the blast would not vaporize the ship as explosions need oxygen to vaporize things" nuclear explosions do not need oxygen to vaporize things. Only non nuclear explosions require oxygen to vaporize things.
29th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, when Spock exits the turbo lift and asks permission to board the bridge, the closing lift doors reveal the reflection of a film crew member.
Correction: Incorrect. It's a reflection of one of the bridge crew stood to the left of the turbolift. The turbolift doors are convex in shape and reflect the bridge on the periphery of the what you see on screen.
24th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise is in dire danger of being sucked into the black hole, the view window is shown as seriously cracking. In the next scene, as they rocket away, the view screen has no cracks.
Correction: Incorrect, the cracks are difficult to see because of the bright light caused by the warp core explosion, but they are still visible. Not a mistake.
24th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Kelvin is attacked by Nero, the chief engineer says that the weapons are down, however in the next scene, when the women get sucked into space you can see the Kelvin's weapons firing even though they're meant to be disabled.
Correction: No, he says, "Weapons offline, main power down 38%", and 'offline' in the Star Trek universe has never meant 'disabled', so it's clear that in the time the Chief Engineer said that, the weapons were brought back online.
22nd May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Nero has returned to the past, before his entire world was destroyed; wouldn't it make more sense for him to focus on saving his entire planet, rather than destroying Vulcan?
Correction: Romulus was always going to be destroyed, nothing was going to avert that, and even if there was the slightest chance, he's too wrapped up in his grief for his lost wife and child.
17th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: After older Spock does a mind-meld with Kirk and shows him the past, he is shown breathing heavily and dazed. In the next shot, he is completely relaxed and calm like nothing happened.
Correction: Having watched it again, Kirk's breathing gradually returns to normal in all subsequent shots from the end of the mind meld. Not a mistake.
18th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: The first shots of the Enterprise in space show it docked at the massive space station with the bridge facing the center of the station. When they show Spock entering the bridge for the first time (when the ship is still docked) you can see the view out of the front viewscreen/window. You should be able to see the huge space station, but all you see is empty space.
Correction: The space station is visible on the viewscreen. As Captain Pike enters the bridge, he walks across the view of viewscreen from right to left, and on the far right side of the screen, you can see the main central hub of the space station.
17th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise arrives in Vulcan space, there is much debris floating around from the previous ships that were destroyed. The Enterprise tries to duck under a large piece, but it scrapes the top of one of the nacelles, knocking many panels off. In later scenes the damage has disappeared.
Correction: Not so. After that scene, there is never again a clear camera shot of the damaged part of the nacelle, therefore it's pure speculation to suggest it isn't still damaged.
11th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Kirk and Scotty are able to transport from Delta Vega to the Enterprise, despite it being many hours after the Enterprise had departed the planet at high warp to rendezvous with the rest of the fleet (and possibly through the ship's shields). Spock explains that Scotty later invents the ability to transport to and from ships at warp speed, but this does not account for the distance they are traveling.
Correction: Spock doesn't, but Scotty does account for the distances himself. When Spock gives him the equation for the transwarp theory, its Scotty himself that states that it can be done between two points a long distance apart. His first attempt is what led to the disappearance of Admiral Archer's beagle - this time clearly works.
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Correction: You've answered your own submission with one of the MANY questions you've included. Regardless of the weapons now being offline, so long as Kirk remains at the helm, he can adjust the course of the ship if the Nerada alters its course to intercept the escape pods, so no matter what time he has left, he has to stay at the helm. The computer merely warns him of the collison, clearly with the auto-pilot being offline is in part why the computer cannot alter course to avoid the collision. Your submission would have been better separated, and most of it should have been submitted as questions.
GalahadFairlight