I think it was to give Quinto's character More Angst™. A few years ago destroying his village would have been enough, but thanks to Hollywood oneupmanspaceship, nowadays if you don't have genocide in your past, the audience can't relate to you. Trufax.
What bothered me was people using transporters when shields were up, and then someone else beaming aboard something moving at warp. It felt like they broke those two rules just for the hell of it.
But it's a reboot, after all, so I kinda just went with it.
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Date: 2009-05-21 11:10 am (UTC)What bothered me was people using transporters when shields were up, and then someone else beaming aboard something moving at warp. It felt like they broke those two rules just for the hell of it.
But it's a reboot, after all, so I kinda just went with it.