Some Questions

Or Sending him to the Research station?

Maybe they programmed the coordinates, but they got messed up when the pod entered the atmosphere. 

If the Planet/moon Spoke is on is so close to Vulcan that it can literally see the planet that large in the sky how is that the massive gravitational forces that are affecting Vulcan having no effect on the one Spoke is on?

It had to do with the nature of the Red Matter. 😎

If Nero's ship took that long to destroy the Kelvin and people were able to get away, and it couldn't easily destroy the Enterprise.. how did it destroy all of the Federation ships so easily with apparently no survivors?

25 years of preparation for battle.

Why does the advance Vulcan race have no small ships or anything that could maybe knock the ridiculously long tube drilling a hole in their planet out of it's spot. No portable shields... nothing.. it's a mining drill. They don't even seem to make an attempt. Same with Earth at the end.

The drill knocked out all communications. On Vulcan, we don't know how remote of a spot they were at and how long it would take to get ships there.

On Earth, the attack was at San Francisco. Even in the future they aren't going to put up much of a fight unless it is for social justice. 

Scotty can beam Kirk onto a ship traveling faster than the speed of light that is in a bubble of space time, several light years away? Why do they need space ships?

Because everything isn't a race. They are explorers. They have to have equipment to chart the quadrant. They can't beam onto every planet because not all are able to sustain life, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth exploring. They also don't want to beam onto a primitive planet and disrupt their development.

Why does a black hole have to be drilled into a planet? It's a BLACK Hole, just do the equivalent of dropping it on the planet.

Because they are using Red Matter, if they drop it IN the planet then it will just destroy the planet and not suck in all of the planets around it. 

Supernovas are predictable! They don't just happen. The Romulan planet should have been evacuated well ahead of time, right?

Hey, they are smart, but they are no Vulcans. 

No way Captain Pike would have made Kirk (who has been on the ship for 5 minutes) the next in command.

Why not? Pike SPECIFICALLY recruited Kirk, so it is not beyond belief that he followed Kirk's time at the academy and knew what he was capable of. Plus, Kirk was the ONLY one who figured out Vulcan was under attack.

Literally everyone else on that ship had more experience than Kirk.

Except for the ensigns and other people who had no experience.

Why does everyone, including Vulcan Spock, speak perfect English except Chekov?

Even in the future the Russians are hard to figure out. 

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"If Nero's ship took that long to destroy the Kelvin and people were able to get away, and it couldn't easily destroy the Enterprise.. how did it destroy all of the Federation ships so easily with apparently no survivors?"

All other Federation ships came out of lightspeed (right into Nero's battle ready vessel) with no forewarning, no shields up and no weapons armed. It probably took Nero's ship all but 4-5 hits per Federation ship to take them all out.
The Enterprise came out shields up, and also about half a minute behind everyone else, and Nero's attention was focused elsewhere.

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Most likely Pike really liked Kirk and thought if he had as much Instinct as Kirk's father then that was good enough for him.

John 60 old - I wish I could write.

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It seems ridiculous but I'm assuming the alternate universe United Federation of Planets has different laws for how to treat people who are unauthorized to be on the ship if deemed so by the Captain. Yes, Kirk should have gone straight to the brig, instead Spock ejects him from the Enterprise onto a Class-M (not really) Ice Planet, far from a Federation outpost. It's a horrible thing to do either way you look at it.

Delta Vega (Ice Planet) is seemingly only a few hundred thousand miles from Vulcan, yet is not pulled towards the singularity, there is no explanation for this, other than the singularity must die out shortly after consuming Vulcan.

The dumb thing about Star Trek 2009 is it doesn't show us how Nero dispatched 47 Klingon Warbirds or a dozen Federation ships yet takes forever to destroy the USS Kelvin at the opening of the film, and isn't able to destroy the USS Enterprise near the end of the film. It's plot armor and ridiculous at the same time, and there is no explanation.

Only 10,000 Vulcan Survivors out of 6 billion is unrealistic and stupid. There would have been more likely millions of Vulcans offworld at any given time, exploring the galaxy, visiting other words, making First Contact (like in TNG Movie: First Contact), countless Vulcans spread throughout the Alpha & Beta Quadrants on other worlds.

Exactly. Transwarp Teleportation is unrealistic, even for the 23rd century alternate universe. It's not possible to disassemble and then reassemble human matter and consciousness across the span of light years, and in an instant.

Apparently the Red Matter reacts to the Planet Core to provide enough power to create the singularity, but apparently it's unlikely because red matter and its singularity destroys the Narada at the end of the film, and that's not a planet core. Nero could have just as easily dropped red matter to Vulcan and then blasted it once with the drill. Seems silly either way.

Kirk's instant promotion is dumb.

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