Star Trek into Darkness

[Miriel]

They're both right though. You're the one who refuses to acknowledge that your lack of information about Star Trek lead you to believe something was Hollywood instead of realistic to the movie's reality.

So the reality is complete incompetence on the part of earth's people?

As The Man said:

There seems to be a presiding attitude of either arrogance or complacency causing Starfleet not to prepare for attacks and accidents.

Ok. Yeah. That is really so much of a better way to look at the movie. These people are super advanced but they do not prepare for:

1) Accidents
2) Attacks

Ok. Y'all win. I guess I should accept the idea that Earth, it's people, everyone involved are just so complacent that they can only stare in befuddlement as a battle rages above their atmosphere and can only watch as a big hulking thing comes down to destroy them. With no air support or warning system or even a call from Enterprise down to the folks at home to prepare for some bad trout about to go down, or any of that handy shield technology (which I'm presuming y'all would say has no business being ever implanted on earth or over its major cities, because peace, so much peace). That all makes so much sense and makes me think less of the Star Trek universe. Is that the point? To make me realize just how incompetent they all are? As opposed to just assuming that the finale of the movie was just that, a big finale to add an exclamation point to the climax.

How exactly does this excessive explaining away make things better? I would rather not think of the inhabitants of this reality as being utter dumbsmurfs.