| deskpro2k3 said:
Pretty sure they explained all this in movie. flying a little ship will result in it being blasted by the enemy, and if they were to miss a shot from afar that would give up their location. the drill lazer also disrupted teleporting and communication. |
They explained (in about ten seconds by Cpt Pike), but those are hardly reasonable explanations, exceeding a reasonable willing suspension of disbelief.
They couldn't fly to the other side of the planet where communications weren't disrupted? Or was this magical lazer (sic) drill capable of disrupting communications on a planet-wide level? That's beyond willing suspension of disbelief for sci-fi.
The only plausible explaination is that the Enterprise crew simply wasn't aware of the gravity of the situation (destruction of Vulcan) otherwise they would have resorted to more drastic measures (like flying the Enterprise E into Shinzon's ship).
They were still able to fly a shuttle close enough to the drill to jump onto it from orbit (in a fantastic scene), so presumably they (Romulans) couldn't just blast it or they simply didn't notice it, meaning, they (Star Fleet) could have sent a shuttle into the drill to destroy it, but that would have been dull writing and would have shortened the movie.
Had they been aware of the plot an implications, the movie would have ended with the Enterprise wrecked/destroyed, but Vulcan saved and we would have a less compelling, less exciting film. Personally, I like the way the film actually ended.
I loved the movie and I'm in no way shape or form trying to wreck it, but it seems that the reboot, stretched certain plot elements into the realm of fantasy in the interest of telling the story. I don't have a problem with that, but it typically means more plot holes if an audience is going to bother trying to break it down as though it were theoretically plausible as is typically the case with sci-fi.
