10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek (2009)

Nothing about or that happens on Delta Vega makes sense. It's habitable but apparently uninhabited, despite being within Mark I eyeball viewing distance of Vulcan. There's a Starfleet outpost there, but the communications-damaged Enterprise doesn't pull up and try calling via communicators to determine if the outpost has any capability to contact, well, anyone who could get a warning to Starfleet. Kirk's marooned to the outpost via a pod that can't land anywhere near it. Kirk has a communicator but is never shown trying to call for assistance. And Scotty and Keenser both are clueless that the planet next door has vanished.

Just why doesn't the outpost have subspace radio? Or did it get its phone service from formerly nearby Vulcan? Guess it's time to switch carriers.

And did Nero drop Prime Spock within walking distance of the outpost so he could live with the memory of Vulcan's destruction rather than freezing to death or being eaten by the local fauna, as Kirk nearly was? And how on Hoth did Spock get that wooden torch?

Finally, is Lt. Spock, a pirate captain? Marooning was usually punishment for mutineers, and effectively a death sentence. Back in the OG series, Kirk marooned Gary Mitchell because Mitchell was a growing and uncontrollable threat to the ship and there was no way to contain him. But cadet Kirk? Spock hangs a lantern on his decision to maroon Kirk by saying he would probably escape a brig cell. So, how about sending someone to the surface via shuttlecraft with Kirk in tow while the Enterprise warps away?

Delta Vega is the delta of dumb.