Seven ways they could have improved... Star Trek (2009)
— Instead of having the Kobayashi Maru test be the reason Kirk gets in trouble, present it as the original reason Spock considers him a risk to Starfleet. Don't have Spock be the test's creator; just have him be the one who places a formal complaint against Kirk's cheating. Kirk is cleared (as in the original timeline), but this creates animosity between him and Spock.
— After this, fast-forward at least a year, with Kirk serving as a junior officer on the newly-commissioned Enterprise, under Captain Pike, with Spock as First Officer. When the attack on Vulcan comes, the Enterprise is delayed, Kirk freaks out and points out that it's a trap... and is proven right. The Enterprise takes major hits, killing several officers, and then when Pike is summoned by Nero, he makes Spock acting Captain and Kirk acting First Officer. This last choice is now far more realistic, since Kirk has been actively serving for at least a year (instead of being an academy student on disciplinary probation).
— Remove Spock prime (Nimoy) from the film. Just have it so that Nero rushed back to the scene of Romulus being annihilated, attempted to shoot down Spock for getting there too late, and got swallowed by the singularity because he prioritised a fruitless attempt to kill Spock over getting clear of the event horizon. Give a few lines explaining this to Nero himself. This solves the problem of Kirk randomly being dropped on the planet where Spock prime and Scotty happen to be, which also happens to be a planet from which one can see Vulcan's explosion in an Abrams-typical unscientific and insane close-up.
— Instead of having Spock dump Kirk on a random planet, make it explicit that he's dumping him there because there's a Federation science outpost. His reasoning is that Kirk will be fine there, and won't be able to cause trouble. The fact that Scotty just so happens to be stationed there is still awfully convenient, but not unacceptably so.
— Show Kirk coming to realise that Spock isn't the jerk he thought he was, without having to be magically info-dumped on this, and show Spock realising that Kirk isn't actually a rash idiot. Then they work together and save the day.
— Remove Nero's constant screaming. Abrams always has his villains scream incessantly. It's very dumb, since it makes them 500% less imposing. Nero's henchman, who nearly kills Kirk, doesn't scream and is a more imposing villain than Nero himself.
— Explicitly set the commemoration scene + Kirk getting to be Captain of the Enterpise a year after the main action, making this a little more realistic.
— After this, fast-forward at least a year, with Kirk serving as a junior officer on the newly-commissioned Enterprise, under Captain Pike, with Spock as First Officer. When the attack on Vulcan comes, the Enterprise is delayed, Kirk freaks out and points out that it's a trap... and is proven right. The Enterprise takes major hits, killing several officers, and then when Pike is summoned by Nero, he makes Spock acting Captain and Kirk acting First Officer. This last choice is now far more realistic, since Kirk has been actively serving for at least a year (instead of being an academy student on disciplinary probation).
— Remove Spock prime (Nimoy) from the film. Just have it so that Nero rushed back to the scene of Romulus being annihilated, attempted to shoot down Spock for getting there too late, and got swallowed by the singularity because he prioritised a fruitless attempt to kill Spock over getting clear of the event horizon. Give a few lines explaining this to Nero himself. This solves the problem of Kirk randomly being dropped on the planet where Spock prime and Scotty happen to be, which also happens to be a planet from which one can see Vulcan's explosion in an Abrams-typical unscientific and insane close-up.
— Instead of having Spock dump Kirk on a random planet, make it explicit that he's dumping him there because there's a Federation science outpost. His reasoning is that Kirk will be fine there, and won't be able to cause trouble. The fact that Scotty just so happens to be stationed there is still awfully convenient, but not unacceptably so.
— Show Kirk coming to realise that Spock isn't the jerk he thought he was, without having to be magically info-dumped on this, and show Spock realising that Kirk isn't actually a rash idiot. Then they work together and save the day.
— Remove Nero's constant screaming. Abrams always has his villains scream incessantly. It's very dumb, since it makes them 500% less imposing. Nero's henchman, who nearly kills Kirk, doesn't scream and is a more imposing villain than Nero himself.
— Explicitly set the commemoration scene + Kirk getting to be Captain of the Enterpise a year after the main action, making this a little more realistic.
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