Good main actors - Bad story- No science

Rating: 3/10 (25 May 2009)

Being a large consumer of any seriously mentionable Sci-Fi-movie here my opinion: The choice of Kirk, Bones (in German: "Pille" for "pill") and Spock was very good,similarities in behavior and faces were existent.Medium choice:Uhura and Sulu Worst choice:Chekov (although I had fun with his Russian dialect),and Scotty (too pale. The real Scotty was my favourite) The real Spock was unfortunately too senile in this movie(78),but in former times unquestionable great.The overall story dumb in many aspects,especially the revenge background, especially because Nero could had used the 25 y of being thrown back to warn his planet and his wife (she was maybe young but still living). A flat villain a one dimensional story with one sense: force melding all the old crew members of Star Trek together within hours.
Scientifically many,maany,maaaaaany strange inventions and assumptions:
Topic Singularities: -Singularities in their destructive behavior swallow the whole Vulcan planet from within in a matter of just a few minutes.Why was the suction effect like that of a funnel in a sandbox? The singularity in the core of the planet would attract the matter around it just equally and form maybe a crushing and shrinking sphere-not a funnel.
-Lovely senile Mr.Spock(maybe because of the German translator he sounded senile) managed to shrink a supernova with a mere drop of liquid red matter contained in who knows what kind of containment field(left for the scientific public to discover afterwards), within a small spaceship.Buthas anyone thought of the energies produced by a supernova?He would have been burned to ashes, even the Romulan planet exploded within seconds. In what containment device he put that little red drop (looked like in "Blade")? Why not beam it ?
-The supernova being so gratefully sucked into that black-worm-hole-thingy and nero and poor "too-old-for-that-sh. (cross-reference: Lethal weapon)" Spocky afterwards...where was the amount of that supernova-energy in the other galaxy ? And why Spocky and the others didn't get crushed ?.
-Megalol on the final encounter with the red matter...all was spilled within the Nero-ship...one should expect the the whole universe including the cinema theater and its audience should be sucked into Nihilation...but as always the omnipotent remedy to all scientific and household problems is: throw in as much as you can, best if you do it with your warp cores (especially because warp cores have more energy than supernovas)!!A lot helps a lot (this is also my credo when washing my clothes with detergents...)!
Topic Beaming: -Sometimes beaming is just a matter of how dear the actors are to your heart sometimes necessary for bending things into the correct order. Beaming moving objects is maybe difficult but omnipotent Russian 17-year-old-nintendo-playing chekov is well trained in doing that with the joysticks just in time in case of beaming Sulu and Kirk up. Strange enough, that he doesn't manage to beam Spocks mother up, since she just started to fall.I think Chekov didn't like Spocks mother.That must be the reason.He never mentioned it.
-Beaming towards far away, moving objects is accomplished in just a few minutes? But how long was Kirk unconscious in that rescue pod?A few hours?During that time how far did Enterprise travel?Assuming traveling only with light speed (in fact it is more than that I know)where just 18.000.000-km are gained each minute,Scotty is able to locate the ships interior to beam Kirk and himself inside. Interesting enough, that he was not beamed into the warp core or ships hull but inside a big watertank. Spocky was maybe wiser than that and beamed himself directly onto earth since distance does not to seem to be a matter here.
Topic coincidence -what lucky coincidences sometimes exist I experience in my own life, and so it must be like meeting an old school chap somewhere in the Antarctic, when Jim meets Spock on the otherwise (except for an outpost and monsters from StarWars)uninhabited planet "Hoth" (cross ref. "Star wars Ep. V"). -Since sometimes there happen clusters of coincidences, why not add one more: Scotty is also there with a wimp who reminded me of Oompa Loompa (cross-ref. Charlie and the chocolate factory) and indeed it is ooompa loompa !!! What a coincidence !
Topic clichés: -Alien ships must always been constructed and designed dangerously outside, but even more inside. Even if it was a mining ship something like a railing on the walkways never evolved. Poor future workers will slip on banana skins and free fall to death.
-Sympathetic Eric-Nero-(burning must Rome)-Bana must die a dreadful sucking death within a singularity (although he survived it the first time unharmed). Depends maybe of the size of the red blobs
-Superhero kids are omnipresent nowadays,and so 10 year old Kirk jumps out of a car falling down a cliff. Young Anakin Sykwalker was as tough as that too in the pod race. This is omnipresent glorification of "cult" heroes. Maybe Anakin Skywalker build his first organic nanobot within the womb of his mother...oh sorry I drifted off to another strangely similar movie in many facets.
-This "funny" swelling of the hands and lips and clumsy acting due to allergic reactions is well known in "Hitch-the date doctor", "Star Wars -episode I" with Jar-Jar (but in different context) and many other movies. Creating jokes is just taking them from a list of everfunny gags and converting them to the different settings
-Always, ALWAYS, Aliens who attack earth start in the United States, mostly in California, because of the beaches, the sunshine and the nice dolphins. Strange I missed the American flag...but it must have been somewhere hidden to my filtering senses.
So my global impression: 3/10 for the many colors I have seen.