Star Trek

After Spock boards the Vulcan ship on board the mining vessel, Kirk is seen walking through some pipes.

His Starfleet phaser has switched to a Romulan gun (longer barrel and no lights), before switching back to the Starfleet one again in the next scene.

He actually acquires the Romulan gun a few scenes later.

When Nero is told that Spock has destroyed the drill and Nero yells, "Spock," Nero's left ear is the one missing its tip instead of his right ear.

(This shot was obviously reversed in editing.

) When the crew is discussing the plan to beam aboard Nero's ship, Ensign Chekov states that, in order to arrive in time, they will need Mr.

Scott to get them to Warp factor 4; however, the HUD on the view-screen behind the group clearly shows the ship to already be traveling at a speed in excess of Warp 4.

When the Romulans attacks Earth, you can see the flame coming down on the seaport near Starfleet, creating a giant circular wave.

But in close-up, there's no wave at all, just water evaporating.

The Romulan ship managed to reach Earth and start drilling without Starfleet attacking because the primary fleet was in the Laurentian system, and only 7 ships were sent to Vulcan because they were all the available ships.

Additionally, Captain Pike was forced to give Starfleet defense codes when the slug was attached to his brain stem.

When Nero arrived at Earth, he was able to do so without alerting any Earth defenses.

The "Enterprise" is referred to as Star Fleet's new flagship.

While in current naval tradition a flagship requires an admiral on board, Starfleet has been established as having a premier starship referred to as a "flagship.

" In _"Star TrekThe Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv), the Enterprise 1701-D was referred to as the Flagship of the Federation.

In the final "Spock on Spock" scene, you can see the obvious height difference between the two.

Young Spock should be the same height as old Spock.

However, Vulcan biology is not fully understood and this could simply be a natural physical change.

Additionally, this is consistent with human physiology.

Old Spock is 120 years older than young Spock so it is natural that young Spock is taller.

As humans age, their spines become more curved and the cartilage in between the vertebrae become more compacted; hence they tend to be shorter.

This height difference can be quite considerable so a handful of inches is really not unusual.

In addition, it should also be noted that both the actors, 'Leonard Nimoy' (qv) and 'Zachary Quinto' (qv), both stand the exact same height in real life, 6'1".

So the height difference on-screen could be intentional, to show the aging of Older Spock.

When Kirk first lands on the drill, he removes his helmet and throws it to the side and engages a Romulan in hand-to-hand combat.

Several seconds later during a pan-out, we see Kirk hitting another Romulan in the head with the helmet he earlier threw off to the side, even though there would be no time for him to retrieve it from across the platform.

Chekov's Russian accent is sometimes perceived to have a major flaw in it.

In Russian, there is no "W" sound, but there is a very, very common "V" sound (although heavily rounded with shades of "w").

As a result of this, his labored way of transforming his V's into W's might seem incorrect, but when speaking English, native Russian speakers will sometimes transpose V's and W's, e.

"Ve are wery happy to be here".

(A similar phenomenon is seen in speakers of Asian languages that possess only either "L" or "R", when speaking in English will often transpose them"really" becomes "leary".

) In any event, this is clearly a nod to 'Walter Koenig (I)' (qv)'s portrayal of Chekov in the original series and most notably in _Star Trek IVThe Voyage Home (1986)_ (qv), when Chekov is seen in 20th Century San Francisco asking for directions to "nuclear wessels".

At the Star Fleet outpost on Delta Vega, Mr.

Scott says he had a transporter mishap with "Admiral Archer's prized beagle".

The series _"Enterprise" (2001)_ (qv) with Archer was set around 100 years before the events of the movie.

Nero traveled 154 years into the past from 2387 to 2233.

Spock arrived 25 years later, in the present, which is the year 2258.

Enterprise was set in 2151 meaning Archer would be around 140-150 years old.

Star Trek writer 'Roberto Orci' (qv) went on record to clear up the issue"Admiral Archer is a reference to the Archer we all know and love, from the TV series and yes he would be over 100, which is a likely life expectancy in a futuristic space faring race of humans" (as depicted by McCoy in _"Star TrekThe Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv).

) When Kirk is making out with the Green Orion cadet in her bed, you can see green make-up on the front of his boxers (and a little on his skin above the boxers) when he first lifts himself from on top of her for some dialog.

After the scene cuts to another camera angle and then back to Kirk, the green coloring is no longer visible on Kirk.

It's unthinkable that Kirk being named second in charge by captain Christopher Pike wouldn't be overruled by him being marooned for mutiny.

However, as Kirk himself noted, Spock's actions (marooning him on a unsafe Class-M planet) are also against Starfleet regulations.

When the Kelvin encountered the Narada, the latter was emerging from a black hole, thus the "lightning storm in space".

Before it started to attack Vulcan, there was another "lightning storm in space"; this was the arrival of Spock Prime's vessel, the Jellyfish.

In _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv), Captain Kirk mentions a Federation/Romulan War many years previously.

The war was conducted through starship battles and the treaty for it was negotiated via subspace radio, so Romulans and Federation citizens never saw each other prior to that point in time.

This means that the Federation knew about the Romulans and general background information about their ships (what radio frequencies were used, power signatures, etc.

) long before the scene with the USS Kelvin in the movie which resulted in altering later history.

Some viewers have commented that the Nero/Spock confrontation that sends them through the black hole occurred immediately following the destruction of Romulus.

The comic series "Star TrekCountdown" makes it clear that there was a time passage of around a week or so, during which Nero upgraded his ship significantly with BORG technology as part of his revenge scheme.

Although comic co-writer Mike Johnson considers Countdown to be canon, screenwriter Robert Orci has stated he is no position to declare whether it is, though he feels it could be considered canon unless it is contradicted in a later film or TV episode.

However, he has since implied that it was not canon.

Chekov obtained transporter lock on Kirk and Sulu because the transponders in their communicators helped him lock onto their biosignal, which was moving at a predictable velocity.

However, losing transporter lock on Spock's mother was a different story.

Whether from the lack of communicators or Vulcan's unique geology, transporter lock on the Science Council was only possible above ground.

Unlike with Kirk and Sulu, her fall was a complete surprise, and her biosignal was masked by interference from the cliff walls and the debris engulfing her body.

In addition, while Amanda clearly demonstrated that people can move within the field of a transport in progress, she literally fell out of the transport-in-progress's field when the cliff collapsed.

She was already being molecularly disassembled for transport.

Compare this to Kirk and Sulu's transport; in that instance, Kirk and Sulu were already in motion and Chekov was already working on maintaining the lock while Kirk and Sulu were transported aboard.

In the high altitude parachute jump, the display on Chekov's screen showing the order of jumpers (Olsen, Kirk, Sulu) does not match actual order (Kirk, Olsen, Sulu) until the first chutes deploy.

Spock Prime is surprised that Kirk is not yet Captain of the Enterprise.

In his time line, he served under Captain Pike's command of the Enterprise for ten years, and Kirk became Captain after that time.

He should know that Kirk is too young to be Captain.

However Spock may not know the actual date yet - so far he's been abducted by Nero and abandoned on a planet near Vulcan, and although he's aware of a nearby Starfleet outpost, he's not been there yet.

In the scene where they're making a plan to sneak up on the Narada, Mr.

Scott is holding a towel with both hands, but when they zoom up closer, he is holding it to his side.

During the awards ceremony, several flags can be seen in the background, including what appears to be the state flag of California.

Towards the end of the sequence, the point of view shifts to Old Spock viewing from a balcony, and the flags are changed to Federation and Starfleet flags.

When Nero is accused of genocide after destroying Vulcan, he responds that he is trying to prevent it.

He knows he has gone back in time, and he has the red matter, which he knows can destroy the supernova.

He also knows from his own actions that it's possible to change the time line he is from.

If he truly wants to prevent genocide, why does he not go to the star and eliminate it decades before it can destroy Romulus? This is in part because Nero also states that he wishes to eliminate the Federation since it is the primary nemesis of Romulus.

Nero may have decided to destroy the Federation before saving his home world, since the supernova is not scheduled to take place for a hundred years.

(It should also be noted that Nero is not exactly a picture of mental health, after having witnessed the destruction of his entire planet, travelling through a black hole and spending upwards of 25 years in prison, plotting revenge.

Therefore any logical flaws in what he says can always just be put down to his tenuous grip on sanity.

) Uhura claims to be able to speak three dialects of Romulan.

It has been established that relations between the Romulans and the Federation have never been friendly and that the only contact was to negotiate a peace.

However, there's no reason to presume that their unfriendliness precluded either side learning the other's language somehow.

There would be an immense tactical, political, and diplomatic advantage to figuring it out.

(It is quite reasonable that, despite the conflict, one side would learn the other's language.

In _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv) episode "The Enterprise Incident" (3.

02), while a Romulan Commander is speaking with Captain Kirk, she remarks, "Your language has always been most difficult for me, Captain," implying that they are not employing the Universal Translator, which must mean that she has studied and mastered English.

) According to the writers, the new Stardate system has the year and the decimal points indicate the day (i.

Stardate 2258.

42 is February 11, 2258).

However, at the beginning of the film, Captain Robau says the Stardate is "twenty-two thirty-three zero four".

This does not fit into the new system, as he only gives one placeholder zero instead of two or none (it should have been Stardate 2233.

However, the Stardate system is essentially separating the two numbers.

0000004 would have been correct.

But if you want to hold them to a standard, then every Stardate should be four digits, then three, meaning every Stardate in the movie is wrong.

This means the Captain was correct.

By destroying Vulcan, Nero does not prevent the development of red matter.

The development of red matter was in his timeline and his timeline remains unchanged.

When Kirk, McCoy and Uhura rush onto the bridge to inform the captain that they are racing into a Romulan trap, Kirk runs towards the captain and Uhura runs to stand right next to Spock.

When the camera angle changes, Uhura is not standing next to Spock but about 5 feet to the left of him.

When McCoy and Kirk board a shuttle headed for the Enterprise, there are nacelles visible on the bottom of the hull.

However, when it pulls out to reveal the Enterprise in orbit, the nacelles are on the top of the hull.

In the fight on the drill's platform, which is at an extremely high altitude, Kirk and Sulu remove their helmets.

On Earth, humans would find it very difficult to breathe at that height without supplemental oxygen; in Trek mythology, Vulcan's atmosphere is thinner than Earth's.

It was an acceptable practice, when visiting or residing on Vulcan, to receive an injection of a Tri-ox compound to assist in breathing (_"Star Trek" (1966) {Amok Time (#2.

1)}_ (qv)).

Knowing that they would be fighting on Vulcan at a high altitude, it seems logical that the away team would be given a similar injection (considering McCoy's penchant for injecting Kirk on the fly), though it was not shown on screen.

When Kirk convinces Pike and Spock that they are heading into a trap as they warp towards Vulcan, Kirk refers to 'Forty-seven Klingon Warbirds destroyed by Romulans.

' Though typically Warbirds were Romulan vessels within the Star Trek canon, the fact that the timeline had already been altered, coupled with deleted scenes involving Nero's escape from a Klingon Prison camp, lends to the possibility that Klingon vessels are designated as Warbirds as well.

Indeed, the Kobayashi Maru scene earlier refers to "three Klingon Warbirds".

The deep crevasse that the young James Kirk dumps the corvette into is not a natural canyon (which are not generally found in Iowa) but a rock quarry.

When Captain Pike is talking to Kirk in the bar, he says "You understand what the Federation is, don't you? It's important.

It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada.

" However, here he is describing Starfleet and not the Federation.

The Federation is an intergalactic government like the United Nations, while Starfleet is the "peacekeeping and humanitarian" force.

The Starfleet logo, the distinctive "arrow-head" that featured on all the teasers, was originally intended by the production designers of the original series to be the "assignment patch" for crew on the Enterprise only.

This was reflected on-screen by the use of different patches for different ships or posts.

The use of the arrowhead insignia on the Kelvin is therefore a continuity error since the histories of the two time lines are supposed to be identical up to that point.

During Chekov's announcement to the crew during the voyage to Vulcan, he leans over to his left (towards Sulu) when talking about the "lightning storm in space.

" When Kirk replays the footage of this, Chekov shifts and leans slightly to his right (what would be away from Sulu, if from the viewpoint of the view screen) during this line.

The replay of Chekov is reversed, as shown by the location of Captain Pike's knee behind Chekov.

In the live version, Pike's knee is correctly on the audience's right.

In the replay, Pike's black pant leg is seen on the left.

Thus the replay of the video is correct.

Saturn's moon Titan orbits in the plane of the rings, but when the Enterprise rises out of the atmosphere of Titan, the view looks down on the rings.

When Ayel lifts Kirk by the throat you can see wires pulling Kirk up.

Characters are seen taking the turbo-lift DOWN to the engineering deck of the USS Kelvin.

However the exterior shots clearly show the engineering hull is ABOVE the saucer section, where the bridge etc.

is located.

Kirk's statement to the crew that Spock had resigned his commission was incorrect.

He was not giving up his rank of Commander, he was stepping down as Captain of the ship.

At the end when he is talking to Spock Prime about leaving Starfleet, then he would have resigned his commission.

During the space jump, Chekov reports the away team's altitude every few seconds.

His first report gives an altitude of about 20,000 meters, however, the head-up display in front of him shows an altitude of over 100,000 meters.

The away team's descent could not possibly have covered about 80,000 meters in such a short period of time.

Later reports in the scene show the altitude to be more accurate.

The shadow of the camera is visible on Spock Prime's back near the end of the movie.

When Spock enters the Bridge to become Kirk's first officer in the final scene (after Kirk relieves Pike), he steps off the Turbolift and steps behind a glossy panel.

The panel reflects the face of one of the bridge crewa woman whose red hair is bound up in a weird bun-like do.

In the reflection her shirt is red.

When the camera switches to the full bridge view, she is wearing blue.

When the Narada first attacks the Enterprise upon its arrival at Vulcan, its missiles impact the Enterprise on the Port (left) side of the "neck" connecting the Primary (saucer) and Secondary (Engineering) hulls.

However, when Kirk is ejected onto Delta Vega from an airlock in the same general area where the missile impact occurred, there is no sign of any battle damage.

After the Narada comes through the black hole the next shot shows the bridge of the Kelvin and the red alert klaxon is playing.

Next, the helmsman says "I have a reading, they've locked weapons on us.

" The captain then announces red alert even though the klaxon is already playing.

When Spock is beamed away from Spock Prime's ship at the end of the movie he is in a sitting position, but when he materializes on the transporter pad he is in a standing position.

In the end when Spock and Spock Prime are talking, when they switch the cameras behind each other.

The transport ship behind them show them standing at different positions.

When the Camera is behind Spock Prime the are near the rear wing but when the camera is behind Spock it shows them standing behind the ship.

- PLOTWhen Kirk and crew are devising their plan, Spock says he can board the Narada and "steal back" the black hole device.

At this time, only Kirk knew that the device was in fact stolen.

When Kirk and Spock beam aboard the Romulan vessel Spock leans down to perform a mind meld on one of the fallen Romulans.

You can clearly see Spock's right hand with a deep scratch revealing RED blood as opposed to green.

During the countdown at the beginning of the movie when Captain Kirk is on the collision course, as it counts down from 18 seconds, it actually takes longer for it to impact than 18 seconds.

In the opening scene, when Captain Robau of the Kelvin says "Polarize the view screen" you can see he is wearing a Starfleet badge.

As he turns and sits down in the captains chair, it has disappeared, but returns again in the next scene.

When Chekov is briefing the crew on his plan to catch up to the Narada, there is a close-up shot of Bones turned to his left listening with Sulu standing off to his left side.

The next shot of everybody standing around shows Bones angled more to the right and Sulu is behind him.

In the fight scene between Nero and Kirk, Nero's injured ear and scars change sides from right to left.

In the next scene involving Nero, it is corrected.

When Kirk and Bones are exchanging introductions on the shuttle the day Kirk enlists in Starfleet, the position of Kirk's shoulder belts changes between shots.

During Spock and Kirk's fight on the bridge, Spock slams Kirk into one of the bridge consoles, which makes a cracking sound like it had been broken by Kirk's impact.

When the console is shown again, there is no damage.

When the USS Kelvin is attacked by the Narada, the front half of the saucer section suffers a lot of damage.

However, when Ayel appears on the viewscreen after the attack, there is no damage or debris to the saucer section as seen through the windows of the bridge.

When Uhura walks in on Kirk and Gaila, she says, "I've been working on solar systems.

" While we refer to our own star system as "The Solar System", it is not in the least bit incorrect to refer to any other star system as "a solar system".

The difference is in the use of "The" as opposed to "A".

A "solar system" is simply a planetary system that orbits a star and so Uhura is quite correct in her wording.

The female Vulcan Minister is smiling as she stands up at Spock's entrance hearing for the Science Academy.

However, this is not necessarily an emotional response - smiling can be used to convey approval of a situation (as well as dozens of other meanings), therefore the minister may simply be smiling to signify support of Spock.

When Captain Robau is shown at the beginning of the film, the Starfleet insignia on his uniform disappears and reappears again as Robau enters the bridge and sits in his chair.

It also happens again when the Narada emerges and attacks the Kelvin.

The Green Orion cadet has a white scalp where her hair is parted.

When Spock Prime is contacted by Nero following the destruction of Romulus, Nero's appearance is not the appearance of a normal Romulan from that timeline.

Instead Nero already has the facial tattoos and shaved head consistent with the Romulan mourning ritual, although Nero and his crew should not have performed this ritual until after the attack on the Kelvin - in which the Romulan appearance should also be original time-line appearance.

This is often thought to be a mistake, but the events that take place in the original timeline circa 2387 that are described in Spock Prime's mind meld take place over the course of several months and are told out of order in the mind meld - an effort by the filmmakers to simply the exposition for a general audience.

This effort to simply the exposition leads these type of confusions.

Romulus was actually destroyed while Spock Prime was on Vulcan trying to convince the Vulcan government of the threat and that his plan to collapse the super nova with Red Matter would work (and that the whole supernova thing wasn't part of a Romulan/Federation Cold War ploy).

After Romulus was destroyed, the Jellyfish ship and the plan was set in motion.

The collapse of the supernova happened weeks after the destruction of Romulus (during which time Nero and his crew got the mourning tattoos, had his ship refitted to become the monster ship with the Borg technology that is seen in the film, battled 24th century Starfleet and Klingon fleets, etc.

Another thing that is unclear in the film is that after collapsing the supernova, Ambassador Spock created a second smaller black hole that he modified into a temporal vortex through which he intended to travel to go back in time a few months and collapse the Hobus star before it ever went nova and thus save Romulus; however, before his small ship was pulled into the temporal vortex by its gravity, Nero arrived and his ship being of larger mass was pulled in first.

Nero's ship not having been a part of Ambassador Spock's calculations completely comprised the intended effect and Nero traveled back in time 154 years and Ambassador Spock ended up traveling back 129 years (into the altered time-line).

There are no mountain ranges anywhere in Iowa, yet one appears clearly visible behind Kirk while approaches the Starfleet base to join up.

However, on the DVD/Blu-ray's additional content, the filmmakers are actually aware of this, and joke about "the geography in the future" being different.

When Spock requests permission to come on the bridge, he says, "Permission to come aboard, Captain.

" He is in fact already on board the Enterprise.

Protocol requires that he should have requested permission to be allowed on the command bridge, as he is not a command officer nor bridge personnel at that moment.

When Chekov beams Kirk and Sulu onto the transporter pad from their free-fall, they hit the pad hard enough to send (badly animated) shards from the pad into the air, as well as cracking noises.

However, when the pad is shown again, there is no damage whatsoever.

The shards from the pad are actually the transporter beams "breaking" apart as they hit the floor.

While there is a distinct breaking sound, one can assume that this is the noise of the beams as this hasn't happened before nor has it happened again (yet).

In the first scene with Mr.

Scott at his desk in the outpost, the x-ray machine as seen over his left shoulder is pointing forward, yet moments later when he stands up, it is pointing to the right.

When Kirk helps Pike off the torture table on the Narada, he supports Pike on his left side.

But when they're beamed aboard Enterprise, Pike is standing on Kirk's right.

Many details of character behavior, technology, terminology, alien culture, etc.

, which are not in accordance with Star Trek tradition, can be explained away by the altered "timeline" plot which changes Trek Universe history from the year 2233.

The USS Kelvin's upper engineering hull has a tapered cylindrical shape in all but one shot.

It is clearly spherical in the shot of Captain Robau's shuttle leaving the shuttle bay.

In the opening battle sequence, the computer indicates that weapons are offline but when the crew person gets sucked out through a hull breach soon after, they bang into a firing phaser bank.

After the time that Uhura gets her assignment to the USS Farragut and all the way to the end of the movie, her earrings change color several times.

It is highly unlikely that she finds time to change them when during that time there is an imminent threat to the ship and the Earth.

1548 squared is 2396304.

Not 2396324 as stated in the beginning of the movie.

When Spock and his father are discussing his mother's death in the transporter room, one side of the doorway designates the pad as M-1660 while the other side reads M-1330.