Reasons why Trek 2009 was Stupid and Poor Pt. 3

8. The 25 year wait.

“We wait.” Really? Wait and do nothing? Okay. Nero’s pissed off at Spock so he’s going to wait. And the crew is going to wait with him? And do what, play tiddly winks for 25 earth years?

Oh, but the Romulans have longer lifespans. They can wait.

As if living longer gives one the patience to wait. [eyes2] Anyway, crunching the numbers, if we took the life expectancy of a Romulan in regards to the 25 years, that would be equivalent of waiting 8 year for a human. Still, you’d want to waste 8 years of your life doing nothing and every single soul aboard the Narada is willing? Wow! How convenient! Mind you, this is not a military crew, thus less disciplined. They’re in a different time now where they could go back to Romulus and still have a normal Romulan relationship. So no mutiny? Really?

"Oh, but if you read the prequel comic book, it’ll tell you that they were captured by Klingons right after the battle with the Kelvin, so they were in prison for all of those years."

They were in prison? Damn. Those Romulans still look healthy to me. What kind of prison was it? Rura Penthe? The same one in Trek VI? The one that Scotty said, “Might as well killed them now and get it done with.” Rura Penthe? Wow! Apparently Rura Penthe was a Club Med for convicts back in the day. So what about the Narada? Didn’t the Klingons cannibalize the ship? They didn’t?! They left it in orbit of Rura Penthe for all of those years so Nero and his well fed crew can capture it back? How convenient, not to mention, stupid. So with all of this chepooka happening, Nero was still able to get back to meet Spock Prime at the rendezvous point just in time to capture him? What are the chances?

So let’s take out the “comic book” for a moment since none of that was screened. Why wait? They could’ve been doing much more productive things within that time frame then wait 25 years. They could’ve contacted the Romulan empire and gave them knowledge of their future tech. If Nero is so hell bent on destroying the Federation because they are enemies of the Empire, why would he keep his knowledge a secret from the people he’s trying to help? They could’ve told them the Federation armaments and map the entire area for them. Also, during this time, he could prepare the Romulans to raid the outlying Federation planets once he attacked being that Nero would’ve drawn all the attention towards him. And if not, it would’ve caused Starfleet to spread out their forces. That's simple common sense.

"He would’ve done just that, if he wasn’t in prison!"

So we come back to the reasons that Nero and crew were captured by the Klingons. We already know that the Klingons are a militaristic race. They come across the Narada and tow it into their space and throw the captives into prison. And they don’t investigate the Narada at all??? They LEAVE it in orbit around a penal colony for 25 years??? I don’t know what’s more stupid. The idea of this being plausible or people buying this as plausible. [eyes2] Absolutely Stupid and Poor.

9. Pike captured for Earth’s defense codes.

Nero captures Pike in order to “turn off” Earth’s defense systems. Hmm…if memory serves, Vulcan discovered warp drive before Earth, thus, Vulcan should be more advanced then Earth. He doesn’t need the defense codes for Vulcan, but he does for Earth?

"That’s because Vulcans are peaceful and Earthlings are violent, even in a socialistic utopian world. "

How naïve is it to assume that, because a race is “peaceful” it won’t do anything to defend itself. The US is peaceful, right? Yet, they have the largest military in the world that gives them the right to say how “peaceful” they are.

"Yeah, but Nero took Vulcan by surprise. Earth will be ready and waiting this time so he needs the defense codes."

Why does a Captain have Earth’s defense codes in the first place? If their ship returns, he simply needs to identify himself and give his valid command authorization and he’ll be allowed to enter. Giving the defense codes to Earth to ANY Captain, allows the ability of ANY Captain to go rogue against Earth. Why would Starfleet grant that info in the first place???[eyes2]

Still, Nero does have Pike. And he tortures him to reveal the defense codes. Now this should be a moot point, since acting captain Spock has reported to Starfleet that Pike has been captured, thus Starfleet nullifying his defense codes immediately. What was that? They didn’t?! So you mean in perspective, if the President was captured by terrorists, and the White House knew about it, his nuclear launch codes would still be valid? They would? [eyes2]

But then again, IT HAS TO HAPPEN. Pike has to be off the Enterprise and the Narada needs to get to Earth unhindered, because Starfleet are obviously made up of a bunch of idiots, except for one douche cadet. How convenient. Poor & Stupid. To be continued.

TBC...