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Originally Posted by trackercowe
At least it wasn't as outright silly as some of the scenes in Prometheus were.
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I might as well preface this with the admission that I think Star Trek in general is thoroughly mediocre ham, but I saw a lot of silly scenes. For example:
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Kirk fixes the warp core by kicking the snot out of it. Also, no explanation is ever given for how it gets out of alignment in the first place, considering sabotage would imply some kind of saboteur.
The aforementioned two minute transit time from the neutral zone back to Earth. And then they are knocked out of warp, apparently just beside the Moon, yet somehow nobody thinks to contact Starfleet, even using a communicator, which clearly work from orbit since they've been shown to do so many many many times before? Not to mention, if they're going at warp gajillion or whatever, they must have been about to go right thru Earth in the next picosecond, so it's a good thing they were hit and fell back into normal space before they destroyed the Earth in a massive collision.
Khan managing to put 70 (!) odd bodies into torpedoes undetected. The bodies, mind you, that were the Admiral's hold over him, and presumably would be hidden somewhere safe, not left lying around in Khan's workshop or whatever.
The dreadnought falling thru the atmosphere and landing right in San Francisco - ridiculous on three levels, as 1) it would burn up long before landing 2) it wouldn't fall at 5 km/h in Michael Bay-approved slo-mo 3) out of the entire surface of the Earth, it just happens to hit practically on top of Star Fleet headquarters in San Francisco.
The officers on the bridge of the dreadnought get to listen to the Admiral outlining his evil and illegal plot, and just carry on as normal. "No one will ever know what really happened - well, except for all these dudes on the bridge with me! Mwhahahaha!"
Scotty slides his shuttle into a group of other shuttles supplying a top-secret military base, and is not challenged nor detected as he sneaks on board the highly illegal starship being built there. If there's one thing I know about top-secret military bases, it's that security is lax and you can pretty well casually drop in, no questions asked.
Further, why would he sneak on board at all, other than to set up a deus ex machina later?
McCoy just randomly decides to inject a dead tribble with Khan's blood to see what will happen. "Hmm, I have some blood... and this dead tribble. I've always wanted to be a mad scientist..."
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And that's just off the top of my head, without having to think about it. There's bending logic a bit to tell a better story, and then there's just doing whatever you want, whenever you want to. The movie was entertaining, sure, but it was apparently written by crack-addled toddlers with full access to an array of magic crayons.