star trek - true nerd comments
-Yes, this movie needed more women. And particularly more women who were not mothers, wives, or girlfriends. Wait, any women who weren't any of those things.
-(But I still totally dig Spock/Uhura! It would have been premature in terms of Spock's character development if this was a TV show, but it's NOT.)
-I have seen a lot of comments noting that it seems really odd that Spock would both take and be assigned responsibility for the destruction of Romulus when, you know, he didn't start that star supernova-ing in the first place. I can see one way to handwave this, which is that everyone had some warning that the star was going to go supernova and destroy Romulus. It appears there would have been time to evacuate some/most/all of Romulus while Spock was working on his black (plot) hole -- which apparently didn't happen at all if Nero, who runs his own ship, didn't bother to pick up his wife. It looks like the Romulans may have decided not to evacuate in reliance upon Spock's word that he would be able to avert the supernova in the first place. If so, that's A LOT OF FAITH to put in the plan, given the potential downside, but would make less confusing the amount of blame both Nero and Spock himself seem to be placing on Spock. (And it becomes especially ouch-y with the implication that the Romulans were putting that much faith in the plan because it was Spock's plan, signaling the amount of trust-building that he had done by that point. I suspect this is what the script was getting at, but...didn't, instead making it look like Nero is just nuts and Spock has an odd guilt complex.)
[ETA: I am informed that the comic prequel makes clear that Nero is just nuts and Spock has an odd guilt complex. Go figure.]
-Speaking of which, I hope someone has written down that sometime between the events of the movie and 129 years from then, they really ought to find some red matter (DIAL: 1-800-RAMBALDI) and inject it into that pesky star so that nu!Spock and nu!Nero don't go off creating more alternative timelines or whatever (also: to save all those Romulans). Nu!Spock will be needed in this timeline to spend his ambassadorial dotage with his peeps.
-Dudes, Scotty either killed Porthos or...or, like, sent him to the mirror universe. YES, THAT MUST BE IT. Porthos, nooooo!
-Speaking of which, they forgot to figure out how to retcon Enterprise. Ahahahahaha. T'Pol: totes one of the Vulcan survivors, no? She was probably living on Earth anyway. I declare T'Pol/Spock Prime now, you all can get in on that action later.
-Presumably they have also salvaged from Enterprise the bug that caused T'Pol's premature pon farr, so that the remaining Vulcans can get right on that whole repopulation thing. (Think about it: they need to cut loose and have them some pointy-eared babies. You have total justification for pon farr fic, and I'm not kidding about Enterprise...there's a microbe out there that canonically triggers pon farr off the 7-year cycle. I watched that entire show so you don't have to. Go forth.)