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9. Kirk Meeting Future Spock - Star Trek

Old Spock Star Trek
Paramount Pictures

One of the few lingering complaints about J.J. Abrams' superb Star Trek reboot is the overt convenience with which Kirk stumbles across an older Spock (played superbly by Leonard Nimoy) from an alternate future timeline while marooned on a dangerous ice planet. Spock actually explains in a scene from the original script that destiny is in fact pushing them towards one another, and that their fates - presumably due to Old Spock's own interactions with Shatner's Kirk - are forever tied together.

With a black hole creating an alternate reality, Kirk and Spock being thrown together is merely a bungled attempt by the universe to correct itself. While it would need a little smoothing over, it's a nice idea and one that's far more palatable than the simple "yeah, deal with it" lack of explanation in the final film. It's a distracting contrivance that briefly stifles a largely excellent film.

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