Startling Trek

I’m still thinking about the new Star Trek movie days later. Specifically, all the weird things about it. Anyone could go on about little mistakes, and I WILL, because it’s fun.

SPOILERS!

1: You have to watch the first movie in the reboot series, PLUS the Wrath of Kahn from the original run to fully understand the movie. Meaning it’s not as good independently. A lot of sci-fi movies suffer from this. Just look at Star Wars, the Matrix, etc. None of those movie sequels except the originals really hold up under their own weight.

2: Why did Kahn need the alias of James Harrison? Nobody knows who the hell he is. He’s been frozen for centuries. It’s not like he’s going to run into someone who’s looking for him.

3: Why are they still using hose reels for fire suppression hundreds of years into the future? Why has there been no advancements on that front? In the movie, Kirk uses a fire hose to take out a shuttle, which is stupid. He had a gun with him, which he could have fired directly at the turbines keeping the shuttle aloft. Instead, he finds a very unlikely fire hose reel and ties the gun to it and tosses it in there, which works. You can see Kahn glaring at him out of the window thinking to himself, “This is a superior opponent.” If it was John McCain, he would have tied a computer to it and dropped it on him. Seriously, has no one else noticed every single action movie has the hero using a fire hose to escape or to blow something up? They’ve never once been used to put out a fire.

Also, Kahn had opened fire on an entire room full of people with heavy gunfire. The entire building should have been cut in half. Instead, maybe two people die.

4: Why were Kahn’s crewmates inside of the photon torpedoes? It’s explained in the movie, but it’s a terrible explanation that makes no sense. Hiding anyone inside of an active missile is a pretty terrible idea.

5: Why would waking up the rest of Kahn’s crew from cryo-stasis kill them? It’s established that they’re all like Kahn and Kahn has super-healing powers. If a blood sample from Kahn can cure death by radiation, it could probably cure a case of frostbite. Kahn’s like the reverse Tony Stark in this movie. He’s captured and forced to make weapons, but instead of sneakily devising a means for his own escape, he goes ahead an builds the torpedoes. He could have used that time to find a way to thaw out his friends and revolt, but that never occurs to him.

6: Everything about Kahn’s plan makes no sense. Obviously, he wants revenge on Starfleet, but the way he goes about it kind of defies his whole, “Evil Genius,” status. He has a ring he can turn into a bomb when it comes in contact with water. Why did he need the one guy’s help with blowing up the “archives?” He could have snuck that bomb in a million different ways. He could have blown up the meeting too in the exact same way. Everything he does seems as if it’s designed to get him closer to getting his crew back, as well as the Starfleet warship. There’s so many points along the way where he could have literally no idea what would happen next, or if he’d get his crew killed. At one point, they were going to launch his own crewmates at him and blow everyone up until he surrenders. That doesn’t sound like a winning plan.

7: Why does the guy Kahn recruits as a suicide bomber send a note off before killing himself? The idea was to repay Kahn, without endangering his family. No one would have likely traced the attack back to him without the note as all evidence would have been blown up. Probably the only reason he went through with it at all is because he felt Kahn would kill his family if he didn’t, or if he went to the authorities beforehand. Telling people that Kahn was the one who talked him into it and supplied the bomb negates all that.

8: Why would Starfleet ever accept Scotty’s resignation? He’s the genius behind the biggest technological advancement since the Warp Drive. The fact they’d stick him on a ship instead of a lab is baffling in and of itself.