Star Trek the reboot - minor(?) plot errors

Rating: 4/10 (22 January 2012)

Let me start by saying, I actually like this film. I like the new young cast and it's always a delight seeing Old Spock in a film.
The one thing that irks me more than anything else with regards to this film is this - starfleet is a military organisation, isn't it? They've got admirals, captains, lieutenants, etc? If so, then how come the *stowaway* gets to become captain of the Enterprise? OK, maybe there's a case for Spock not being in command. But if so, there's a thousand people ahead of Jim Kirk the stowaway taking control of the ship. Everybody including *Bones* is higher up in the chain of command than Kirk.
Okay there's one more thing that bugs me. When Spock is back in charge of the Enterprise he *offloads* a prisoner (Kirk) in a lifepod onto a planet that may or may not sustain life. What, the Enterprise doesn't have a brig? It doesn't have a closet where someone can be locked in? It doesn't have half a dozen burly redshirts who can sit on a prisoner? The *only* option is to eject him from the ship in a lifepod? Are you kidding me? Okay, I know they had to have Kirk and Old Spock meet at some point but really, the scriptwriter(s) didn't do a great job on this point.
Anyway, that's my rant over.
Adrienne