Comments on: Nine Minutes Of Star Trek Into Darkness

By: Mudkicker

Mudkicker — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:52:00 +0000

Does anyone remember that Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan was not an exploration film? or for that matter most of the movies had nothing to do with exploration? Sheesh. Get over it Fanbabies.

By: Polaris01313-1

Polaris01313-1 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:49:00 +0000

Judging by the violent content of the film, it will certainly be two notches up over the violence that Nicholas Meyer depicted in Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan.

By: John (not McCain)

John (not McCain) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:13:00 +0000

Which, as it happens, is the first season of the best Trek since the original.

By: JOhn

JOhn — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:10:00 +0000

I think you’re confusing the show’s narration with the actual content of the show. Do you know what you when you watch “explorers”? Season 1 of Star Trek: Enterprise.

By: bradley

bradley — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:09:00 +0000

Not if the natives did not know the volcano was going to erupt.

By: Fanz

Fanz — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:44:00 +0000

This movie opening is nostalgia — running from natives throwing spears recalls 1930′s serials. It’s not your father’s Star Trek, it’s your grandfather’s.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:03:00 +0000

“The Prime Directive stopped them from beaming Kirk and McCoy away in fron of the natives.”

The Prime Directive should stop them from interfering in the first place.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:11:00 +0000

7 minutes…. that’s like, at, 5% of the film? And even those 7 minutes are about running and jumping around with a ticking clock in the background.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:56:00 +0000

I also hope they’ll be explorers again. But I don’t think it will happen with Abrams et al.

By: bradley

bradley — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:32:00 +0000

By the way, the Enterprise had to hide in the ocean because the electromagnetic field of the planet is too strong for the transporter to work correctly.
Although they probably could have used the transporter to beam someone to or from the surface, it is probably a risky procedure, much like beaming at warp.
The Prime Directive stopped them from beaming Kirk and McCoy away in front of the natives. Beside, the whole purpose of the natives chasing them was to lead them away from the volcano.

As for Spock, I guess the planet’s EM field combined with the interference from the volcano, and the fact that the Enterprise is in the water, prevented them from beaming Spock out.

I’m not saying the writing for this sequence was without flaws. I’m just saying that they are explainable, more so than the ones in Star Trek XI. I like to just think that traveling through the black hole took them to a different time in an alternate but nearly identical (before events were changed) universe.