Star Trek Into Darkness: 10 Things That Make No Sense
4. The Women
The female characters in this movie are pretty much redundant. Im not saying that Abrams had to write a beefy role for the lady members of the cast as some sort of positive discrimination, but in Into Darkness, Uhura is annoying cliché girlfriend and Carol Marcus feels tacked on because the character was in The Wrath Of Khan.
Apart from where Uhura tries to communicate with the Klingons and a bit in the climax where she bizarrely beams down to fight Khan on her own, she did nothing other than be Mrs Spock. She was the concerned girlfriend, she was the moody girlfriend or she was the angry girlfriend, whichever role she was playing, she was Spocks girlfriend.
Some reviews have said that the banter between Spock and Uhura was hilarious. Believe me, there was nothing funny about watching Spock play the misunderstood boyfriend who keeps doing the wrong things to keep his woman happy. There is no spark between the two; the whole thing feels artificial. Spock is unlikable and the whole relationship plays out like the worst type of rom-com.
Alice Eve faired no better. Apart from being attractive, she was totally unbelievable as a scientist. She will be Kirks love interest at some point and Into Darkness was her introduction to the audience, thats assuming they remember anything about her apart from that we saw her in her bra and panties.