My only complaint about the re-boot is that Scotty created a transport technology that, for all practical intents and purposes, rendered starships all but obsolete. Similar to the Batman movies where in the first one he had the ability to summon bats with a device then completely forgot about it for the rest of the trilogy.
“My only complaint about the re-boot is that Scotty created a transport technology that, for all practical intents and purposes, rendered starships all but obsolete. Similar to the Batman movies where in the first one he had the ability to summon bats with a device then completely forgot about it for the rest of the trilogy.”
I agree. And another poster mentioned other plot inconsistencies. Because I like ST, I’m able to disregard most of them. Think of Nemesis when the two crashed ships separated by one of them firing reverse thrusters. Really? What held the Enterprise in place?
Heck, even the transporter was a plot device to get around not having a model of a shuttle.
If you demand plot consistency, ST is not for you. From the shows, to the movies, holes everywhere. I thought the best was the tv show, “Enterprise”, but the young nerdy crowd rejected it, until it was too late.
Saying the transporter would render starships obsolete, is like saying jet aircraft render giant aircraft carriers obsolete. The largest object I recall them beaming anywhere was a whale, and you still need firepower and to control a location in order to beam to a transporter located there. it’s never been shown or suggested in any of the shows or movies that the transporter room does away with the need for space travel via ships. It certainly is implied that the transporter is limited in distance and payload.