I got to thinking: it's time travel. Why would there be any "meanwhile?" The events aren't so much happening in a different place than in a different time. The ones could appear a microsecond or two after they left, and pick up the character without any gaps.

For instance, in the new Star Trek movie (which, for the record I love), I went on a short rant about a few things I couldn't believe.

One was how Kirk magically landed near enough to bump into Spock on a planet (that's like finding a needle in a planet-sized haystack) and the planet is close enough to witness the destruction of Vulcan in detail (we're talking closer distance than the moon is to the earth) and yet the newly formed black hole had no effect on this planet.

Also the "drill" the alien ship deployed could stretch from outer space to the center of the planet without trouble. Since Vulcan is probably near the same size as earth (based on gravity) and, in fact, the Romulans were going to deploy the same drill into Earth it makes sense that it must be able to stretch a great distance. Well, the radius of the earth is more than 6 million meters. So that must be a helluva big ship to carry that drill around.

And since they didn't even try to come up with some bogus explanation of what "Red Matter" is and why it can do what it does, which is insanely ridiculous, I'll forgive them for that.

Ignoring the obvious lunacy of constructing a starship ON Earth, why was that shuttlecraft allowed to fly through, in, and around an obvious workzone? I mean, we don't do that now so why would we do that in the future? Even military bases have procedures and guidelines so that a shuttle full of recruits doesn't fly through the scaffolding of an aircraft carrier.

I think it's highly unlikely the new Vulcan would materialize close enough to where the "past" Vulcan currently is. But now that there's two planets in close proximity their gravity might throw each other out of life-supporting orbit.

Or, if the star itself is moving, then the two Vulcans might not even see each other.

I didn't, though, because I was afraid someone might pick it up and start reading it.

But I have to say my biggest nitpick of all time was one I actually made a topic thread here for: how in Stargate Atlantis there's a race of technologically superior aliens who somehow have humans as their primary source of food, to the point that they hibernate whenever human populations get too low.

Putting aside the totally bizarre evolution that must have produced these aliens that eat a species they wouldn't have even encountered until they developed space travel, why in the world aren't there dozens of "human farm" worlds where they specifically breed humans as food? It seems far simpler and more practical to produce the technology to do so, rather than producing technology that allowed them to put their lives on hold until a "lesser" species could repopulate naturally.

I love Stargate, but the utter unbelievability of Atlantis's antagonists makes it impossible for me to watch it.

Still, it IS silly.