Corrected entry: Given how close the Enterprise and Vengeance were to Earth, the fact that Uhura can get a communications signal to New Vulcan to reach Spock Prime but not one to Starfleet Command which is literally outside their viewscreen window is preposterous.
Aerinah
11th Mar 2015
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
9th Nov 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Admiral Marcus ordered Kirk to fire all 72 torpedoes at Khan, because he secretly wanted to kill Khan and all of his crew members which he knew were hidden in the torpedoes. Given the fact that each of the torpedoes had their fuel containers removed and replaced with the cryotubes containing Khan's crew coupled with Scotty's statement that "photon torpedoes run on fuel", none of these modified torpedoes would have had been able to propel themselves after being launched from the Enterprise. So how would they have been able to navigate the distance from the Enterprise all the way to the planet? On the off chance that "fuel" referred to the warhead rather than propulsion, then the lack of fuel would have meant that the torpedoes wouldn't have been able to detonate as they did during the climax of the movie.
Correction: The torpedoes have not had their fuel containers completely removed and replaced. What Carol Marcus actually says is that the fuel container was 'removed and retrofitted to hide this cryotube'. Use of the phrase 'retrofitted to hide' indicates that the fuel containers were reinserted after the modification. This may mean that the torpedoes now hold less fuel than they would have otherwise (part of the modification), but does not prove that they have none.
18th Sep 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Spock announces that the Enterprise's gravity systems are failing and, from that point on,"down" is no longer towards the bottom of the ship, but is instead towards whichever side of the Enterprise happens to be nearest to Earth as the ship spins out of control. This would make sense except that the ship is in freefall and therefore everything on it should not be experiencing any gravity at all. A correction for a similar mistake supposes that the shifts in gravity are due to fluctuations caused by the malfunctioning gravity systems as they attempt to come back online. The main problem with this excuse is that, if the gravity systems are attempting to restart, then there must be intervals between each attempt wherein they are NOT started - moments where they are offline during which there should be no gravity aboard the Enterprise. These moments never occur, and so the gravity systems cannot be attempting to restart. They are simply down, and the inevitable result of such a situation was misrepresented in the film to increase the tension for the audience. (01:41:15)
Correction: You are assuming that any malfunction of the Enterprise's gravitational systems must necessarily involve moments, however brief, when these gravitational systems are entirely offline, and therefore the crew and contents of the ship should be seen floating in freefall. There is no evidence in the movie (or in the other corrected entry referring to the ship's gravitational fluctuations, that you mention in your submission) that this has occurred, or that it must occur, as you assume. Why can't the problem be exactly what we see in the film - that the ship's gravity is experiencing serious fluctuations in direction and strength, as the ship's power weakens and has to be diverted among several critical systems?
23rd Jun 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Scotty only has to shoot Khan once to stun him completely on the bridge of the Vengeance, but Lt. Uhura shoots Khan seven times attempting to stun him and he still doesn't fall down.
28th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: When Kirk and Scott are racing to repair the engines and the ship's gravity is breaking down, the characters should begin to float rather than plunge hundreds of feet to their deaths.
Correction: If the ship's artificial gravity had completely shut down, then the characters might float as you suggest. But it's not completely off; it is malfunctioning and keeps trying to come back online as the ship tumbles toward Earth. This situation is much more likely to create the kinds of gravity fluctuations that do in fact occur.
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Correction: At no point does anyone say that they can't get a signal to Starfleet Command. Spock chooses to try to contact Spock Prime because he may be able to offer valuable advice on dealing with Khan. On the other hand, Spock is probably reluctant to contact Starfleet Command at this point because he doesn't know what Marcus (who is, remember, in charge of Starfleet) has told them about the situation (remember, Marcus' story is that the Enterprise crew 'went rogue in league with Khan, leaving him no choice but to destroy them'). Right now Starfleet Command will almost certainly take Marcus's side, and Spock doesn't have the time to persuade them to side with him instead.
Aerinah