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So many things...

posted 8 years ago by amigajoe
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I had trouble understanding; partially the film and part me, suppose. Some help please:
1.The enterprise fell to the ground *from space* and wasn't completely obliterated?
2. The alien chick (Jaylah) learned perfect English from living in the remains of the Franklin for a few years?
3.Krall (and two crew members) crash landed on the abandoned planet and somehow populated it with thousands of people in a hundred years or so? As well as manufacturing spacesuits/weapons, feeding/housing/etc from NOTHING.
4.You think StarFleet has abandoned you forever so naturally you disguise yourself as an alien?
5.In the middle of an emergency situation you decide to watch old videos of the crew (whom as far as you know has been dead for decades) and magically spot Edison/Krall without makeup?
6. They specifically said that old ships like the Franklin weren't made to fly in an atmosphere yet somehow it had engines powerful enough to lift it against the force of gravity anyway?
7.Yet they wouldn't activate until the ship was falling at terminal velocity(determined solely by atmosphere)?
Hmmm

[–] scousethief 8 years ago

I agree , but with a little caveat , Uhura recognized him from his voice , yep the watching vids bit is stupid but Uhura is supposedly the best linguist and can differentiate/recognize sound patterns much better than the "usual Joe" , i can forgive that bit, the rest of the movie is pretty *beep* though.

[–] Tomcat70 8 years ago

Beastie Boys on 57.7 MHz radio destroying the entire enemy fleet was probably the worst case of Deus Ex Machina I've seen since the original Independence Day.

[–] ophelia_hardin 8 years ago

ha ha ha 😁 😁 😁

[–] syafiqjabar 8 years ago

The ID4 aliens lost because of their own oversight (creating a backdoor emulation into their own computers) and Area 51 research.

Beastie Boys in this movie is one of the best moments in all of Trek history. The best thing is it's a lot like the technobabble solutions you get in the Original Series.

[–] Yorick-6 8 years ago

3. From reading different articles, my take is that Krall's soldiers are supposedly refitted mining droids, and that the only two living things working with him are the woman at the beginning and the guy who killed Jaylah's father (and that they were all Franklin crew members). The movie doesn't really make this clear though, and the "I found a super armada I can run by remote control laying about" idea is kind of stupid.

4. I think his appearance was based on what he was feeding on (so he turned more human after feeding on that crew member at the end).

6 and 7 really pissed me off.

A few more questions:

Why did Jaylah hide the base? It was there for years, people knew about it (at least Krall and his people), and no one decided to live in it. If anything, it's sudden disappearance would have seemed suspicious.

Why was Krall waiting for the superweapon? He could have destroyed the Yorktown with his swarm without it. Was he just going to sit on the planet and wait another 300 years if it didn't happen to cross his path? It didn't even seem that powerful, you could have pumped poisonous gas into the atmosphere and killed everyone if you wanted.

[–] be236 8 years ago

Yeah, I agree with most of OP's comments.