10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek (2009)

Given that the Narada is demonstrated to have inexplicable weapons, there's still the question of rate-of-fire. How believable is it that it’s capable of targeting and annihilating multiple starships in literally seconds? Because that’s what happens. At least four starships are seen warping off more or less simultaneously for Vulcan (the script says five) while the Enterprise, lagged because new helmsman Sulu forgot to release the parking brake. It takes less than a minute for this hiccup to be resolved, and the hero ship is off like a shot.

This brand-new Enterprise is described as being the “flagship” (that Star Trek doesn’t grok what constitutes a flagship is a gripe for another article), so it’s unlikely to be significantly slower than the rest of the task force. As such, she’s at best a minute or so behind her sister ships, yet she arrives over Vulcan amidst the wreckage of them. So how is this possible? Did Nero manage to open fire the instant those ships came out of warp?

When Nero goes all "fire everything!" at the film's climax, the Narada launches a total of 25 torpedoes, then stops, which suggests this is the most it can fire without reloading. Maybe that's enough to shred a task force of five starships in a minute, but what about those aforementioned 47 warbirds? Or did the Klingons just hang around while Narada reloaded, despite seeing their weapons were useless?