4. What Are You Doing??
Anybody have any idea about the logic behind Spock ordering Kirk to be stranded on Delta Vega? Why did he not just throw him in the brig? Never in the history of Star Trek has a prisoner been jettisoned to fend for himself on a barren planet. What would Spock have done if Kirk had died? If Kirk had died, Spock would have been up for a Court Martial in the same way Shatner-Kirk was in the Original Series episode "Court Martial." In that episode, Kirk is put on trial for causing the death of a crew member who was jettisoned accidentally during an ion storm. What Spock did in this movie is worse, it's deliberate. Orci & Kurtzman do this in most of their films, they have the next big action set piece planed and they write it into the script even if the reasoning for it is bizarre or quite frankly shit. On Delta Vega we get to meet Nimoy-Spock who has also been stranded there by Nero so that he can watch Vulcan be destroyed. During the flashback scene, Spock has a great close-up view of Vulcan being consumed by the black hole, a view that you would only get if you was on a moon around Vulcan. But it's been established that Vulcan has no moon so where exactly is Delta Vega? And considering the weather pattern on Delta Vega, it's lucky Spock managed to see his home world being destroyed at all because with all that snow, there must have been a lot of cloud cover.