You presume orbit. Ships with that kind of power can hover without orbiting. You’re thinking shuttle or atlas technology. (This is not your fathers chemical rockets)
I don’t know where you missed the story. It was there. An alternate universe and all the principles come together but it comes out different.
If you can’t suspend reality for TOS staples as Wrath Of Kahn, I suppose you can’t for Into Darkness.
Let me guess you like Dune from the 80s. Or, Gag, Prometheus. Or barf Contact
Remember this is Scifi not Shakespeare.
Gee....I liked Contact and Prometheus.
I appreciate the Original Series and even TNG.
Sometimes, this stuff is just entertainment. The entertainment comes from the writing, the effects, and the music.
As someone wrote, this is not Shakespeare. And to be honest, some of his plays sucked too.
They are just movies. If you are not involved in movie production, and if you are a “normal” viewer (not stopping and starting to see errors in the background) all of these are a decent way to spend an hour or two in fantasy land.
The only time in movies that really usually make me laugh are the gunfights (they shoot everywhere, on auto, without worrying about what they it), the fistfights (every fight I’ve been in and seen in person lasted about two punches and then someone hit the ground. Average people are not boxers!), and the way they portray journalists and photographers (my profession).
Nope. I liked the production design of ‘Dune’ and rate it as a positive (5.5/10), but ghastly story changes and ridiculous stylish elements, not to mention awful editing and clashes between director and producer rendered the whole thing a mess. I cannot tell you how much I hated ‘Prometheus’ suffice to say that Sir Ridley is off the Christmas card list. Permanently. And I didn’t like ‘Contact’ either. (Ditto the book.)
Did I say it had to be truly egg headed? No, but I need to have a little brain candy to properly Suspend Disbelief for a little while. When we are constantly pummeled with contrary physics, looney Chain of Command structures, broken canon, age differentials wildly at odds with TOS, and a basic contempt for TOS in general, it tends to get a little tired. JJ simply isn’t a good storyteller. In fact, he’s pretty much a hack. Go ahead, point at the Huge Box Office, but none of the dreck he has done stand up to second and third viewings. Hell, once was bad enough...