3: If you saw your entire planet destroyed, and held one person responsible for it, it's likely you'd want to get back at them too. He actually spends a lot of that 25 years in Rura Penthe, in a scene cut from the movie.

4: Cardassians may be around in the earlier centuries. Just because we didn't see them until the 24th century doesn't mean they didn't exist.

5: At this point they had enchanted Romulans before (Earth-Romulan War), they just hadn't seen them. So when Nero hails them, well, they see them then.

6: Not a time paradox. They created an alternate reality. That's the movie's explanation. No paradoxes there - see Picard in All Good Things. Same concept.

7: The core, ejected behind the ship and towards the black hole, would have reached the blackhole and thereby exploded before the ship would get sucked in.

8: True, the Enterprise should've just fired on it. But Pike was probably hoping they could disable the drill and escape while the Romulans were distracted - if they opened fire on the drill, Nero would just destroy them.

9: Subspace doesn't work on the same principles as space. If it was blocking subspace transmissions, being on the other side of the planet would probably not have helped much. That also would've taken time, and risked Nero blowing them out of the sky as they tried to run.

10: Vulcans likely stopped having the majority of their fleet when the Federation was created, something like 50 or more years before this movie even takes place.

11: As you noted earlier, the Vulcan elders haven't heard anything from space. All they know is that their planet is undergoing seismic activity. They don't know that there's a blackhole being formed - nor do they have a means of escaping the planet (which is a bit odd, you'd assume they'd have an escape craft).

12: The Narada is more powerful, but all the ships warping in didn't have shields up, making them easy pickings. Fighting a starbase would probably still tax the ship, since all it has are missiles.

13: The ship is being piloted by most of a class of cadets. The command structure also broke down because Pike named Kirk first officer, which was unprecedented (and more questionable than anything you've noted past 1 and 2 so far).

14: It put its shields up before it took a missile to the face. The other ships going to Vulcan probably didn't. Why Starfleet sent a dozen or so ships to Vulcan for a geological disturbance is also a problem.

15: Spock may give them the tech later. But giving technology without explicating how it was developed and how it would be used doesn't benefit Starfleet much, and while he's very intelligent, he's not an android.

16: If the Enterprise was destroyed, the elders would die anyway when Earth or wherever else was destroyed by Nero.

Addendum to Point #3: Apparently he's not so bright, because in that 25 years of waiting it never occurred to him to travel to Romulus and tell them to evacuate before the calamity 100+ years later. Sure it would create a paradox, but what's one more when the writers don't care about them in the first place.

An excellent movie, just as long as I don't let myself think too much (which in this case seems to be at all).

This movie was moderately entertaining at best. It was certainly not a Star Trek movie. It was an action movie.

The movie was good, but doesn't reach Dark Knight levels to reboot the franchise, which in the end is a solely profit-making endeavor that disregards previous story lines and canon. Rebadge the whole thing to Galaxy Quest and change the names and you'd get the same thing….. a good action movie….