Well, in Pine-Kirks defense in regard to the promotion, pretty much all of starfleet got Wolf 359'd at Vulcan by the mining ship.

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Keep in mind that it was a heavily modified mining ship from over 100 years in the future.

Nope, we didn't know what had happened. It was just magically a major warship. No credit for storyline that wasn't given during the movie. Or was it explained *during the movie* and I don't remember it?

That it was from the future? I don't think that was hard to figure out...

Future or not, it's a *mining ship*. It wasn't from THAT far in the future regardless.
There's more to the story, it's just that it wasn't in the movie and should have been included so it would all make more sense.

Well, it's around 120 years or so, if it is jumping from post TNG back to Kirk's era (2380s to 2260s). That's significant enough jump to allow it to have advanced enough tech to defeat a "warship" from an earlier time period.

Unfortunately if they explained everything that you all wanted explained, the film would be 3 hours long. Then you'd complain it was too long.

Guess what? You didn't like it? That's fine! No one cares.

It made more money than any previous ST film and revived the franchise.
Given what happened with Enterprise and Nemesis it's a wonder ST wasn't buried altogether for years to come. Instead JJ was given a chance, it paid off, and now we'll see more films.

Oh, and Bana as Kirk? Don't make me laugh. Why not Daniel Craig? Or Clive Owens? Or Antonio Banderas? Mike Meyers? The corpse of John Candy? Good actor does NOT equal "good for a part."



The Jedi Master

If they ever make a Starfleet Academy tv show they could cast Justin Bieber as Kirk.

Sounds like Jedi had a rough night. LOL

I liked the movie a lot, in fact the opening scene is one of the best movie beginning scenes I can recall. AND it didn't get followed by a bland movie, unlike SW Ep 1 which had a great intro. I just know it could've been better in some specific ways--like any movie. Another 15 minutes would've been plenty to give more story to help continuity. Dump that intro with the Kirk-kid stealing the Vette and for no reason whatsoever running it off of a handy cliff. There's a few minutes towards something far better.