10 Dumbest Things in Star Trek Beyond

7. Swarm Silliness

Krall Star Trek Beyond Idris Elba
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When the Swarm ships overwhelm the Enterprise, streams of them shoot right through the hull and out the other side, causing explosive decompression and the obligatory Kelvin timeline shots of people getting shot into space via explosive decompression. 

But dozens of these killer darts also embed themselves in the starship’s hull and disgorge Drones to subdue the Enterprise crew and allow Krall to attempt his Abronath fetch-quest. But why don’t any of these boarding breaches lead to explosive decompressions of their own? Why doesn’t the damaged hull give way around any of them? I guess we’re expected to believe that every single one of them makes a perfect airtight seal on impact. Right, sure.

And just how tough are these Swarm “bees” anyway? Both the Enterprise saucer and the beat-up old Franklin are strong enough to knock off gigantic chunks of mountains without themselves being pulverized, which seems really inconsistent with the hero ship being shredded by a bunch of alien lawn darts. Yet these starship-slicing Swarm ships insta-explode the moment they bump into each other? That’s just silly.

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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.