NOKW - Star Trek 2

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Star Trek Into Darkness

Basic Plot:  The second movie in the rebooted Star Trek franchise.  This time Captain Kirk and the gang go into darkness, I think.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Spock survived a volcano explosion while standing inside a volcano that hurled large rocks on the unsuspecting natives.  The fact that I'm still confused as to what the "Into Darkness" part of the title means.  The fact that Starfleet let a super young guy right out of the academy take over as captain and is surrounded by other super young-looking people on the newest ship in the fleet.  The fact that Starfleet can transport themselves anywhere in the universe and yet they still build expensive starships.  The fact that this was basically Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with more special effects.  The fact that Scotty is the only person on the Enterprise who knew how to restart the ship's power.  The fact that this is technically the exact same Enterprise as the original, but that the radioactive engine room is drastically different than the one in the the original films.  The fact that Starfleet's brand new ship that is bigger, faster, and better armed than the Enterprise is destroyed within a day of its launch and yet Starfleet doesn't go bankrupt.  The fact that Starfleet has some of the worst employee turnover rates in history and people still enlist with only to die a couple weeks later.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that during the final fight scene, the Enterprise was beside the moon and then is somehow pulled in by Earth's gravity and not the moon's gravity.  If you saw this movie, you know what I'm talking about.  The Enterprise is attacked by the new supership that Starfleet just built and loses power.  When it loses power, you can very clearly see that it is beside Earth's moon and then they suddenly start getting sucked in by Earth's gravity.  First off, what?  If anything, the Enterprise should have been sucked in by the moon's gravity because it was right beside it.  Next up, not only is the Enterprise sucked in by Earth's gravity, but it is done in a fashion that they arrive in Earth's atmosphere in only a couple of minutes.  Bullshit.  If they were beside the moon and started moving towards Earth at a speed that only Earth's gravity could provide, it would take them many many days to get there, not a couple of minutes.  So, even if they were somehow moving at a speed that would allow them to arrive at Earth in a couple of minutes from the moon, then there is no way that they would just float down through Earth's atmosphere and be able to save themselves before just becoming a large crater on the Earth somewhere.  I am not okay with that.

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