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Originally Posted by Willravel
Spoiler: The ship on the ground being built in Iowa as Kirk stares longingly wasn't necessarily the Enterprise. IIRC, they build the prototype of each class of ship on Earth because it's not simply an assembly line type of operation. It could have been the USS Constitution, which was launched in 2244, a year before the Enterprise was built in orbit at the SF Fleet Yards. Kirk was in Starfleet for 3 years. /
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I still take issue with it. No starship builder in their right mind would even assemble a prototype at the bottom of a gravity well. It just makes no sense--in earth gravity, you've got to build a structure to withstand gravity. You're not building a ship, you're building a building.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Spoiler: The black hole essentially negated warp drive as it was warping space the same way a warp drive might, so they needed a more traditional method of propulsion. Also, if you remember from Star Trek Insurrection, ejecting the core and detonating it is the ultimate dues ex machina in the Trek Universe. It can literally do anything you need it to do.
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Deus ex machina irritates me even when the ancient Greeks do it. Spoiler:
Never mind that you can't fly through a singularity and survive. It's Trek-consistent, but it's bad science. There's no "flying through". Whatever passes the event horizon is consumed and never heard from again. Even information can't escape.
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I wanted the Spock/Uhura romance explained by a change in the timeline too. I liked it, but it's a pretty significant alteration of events, and I would have liked some sort of hint of how that happened, when there wasn't even a whiff of it in the "original" timeline.
Don't get me wrong, I really REALLY enjoyed it. And on some level it wouldn't be Star Trek without technical quibbles about the science of the thing.