10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Into Darkness
8. The 72 Popsicles
Khan says the new torpedoes are of his design, so it makes sense he’d engineer them with alternative purposes in mind, but stuffing his 72 frozen compatriots into them? To smuggle them…where?
Since Admiral Marcus is using these popsicled peeps to compel Khan to do his bidding, why is he stupid enough to allow the genetic superman the sort of access that would let him stuff torpedoes with the cryo tubes?
Minus hands-on access, Khan would have to trick or force someone to load the torps for him, but there’s no evidence for that. He may be a Wile E. Coyote Super Genius and hack a computer to trick those with access to his people into shipping them somewhere, but wouldn’t anyone question loading cryo tubes into torpedo components? Or is this all being done by robots like some 23rd-century Amazon fulfillment warehouse? The movie could have made a satirical barb about black projects and black boxes and need-to-know that Khan exploited, but the script isn’t anywhere near that smart.
Even sillier, Carol Marcus says the fuel containers were removed from the torpedo and retrofitted to hide the cryo tubes. This suggests there’s little to no fuel in the containers. So just how did her daddy Marcus expect the torpedoes to get from the edge of the neutral zone to their target?
It’s nonsense. All of it.