an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT QUESTION OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
So jai and I are watching Star Trek (um, again, stfu), and I have a question for those of you who are better at time travel than I am:

At the beginning of the movie, Kirk Sr flies his starship into the Big Bad Tentacled Ship of Doom and goes kablooey. The rescue pods fly off and are rescued, as evidenced by the fact that Kirk Jr winds up in Iowa. Twenty-five years later, Kirk Jr. meets the Big Bad Tentacled Ship of Doom again, and finds it in one piece.

HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK? Like, okay, fine, maybe a huge fucking ship + twenty-five years to put up a fresh coat of paint = a ship that is not a total shitheap, fine. OKAY. I don't really get it, but fine.

But how the hell does Starfleet never, like. GO AND LOOK FOR THE SHIP WITH THE TENTACLES? I mean, I wouldn't want to, but that is because I am not freaking STARFLEET. Clearly they had the technology to scoop up bb!kirk and his momma and, y'know, presumably some other people as well. How did they not ever try to look for the Big Bad?

Possibly this gets explained in better detail later on, and we're just not remembering it—plus, as Jai pointed out, space is BIG—but still. EXPLAIN EXPLANATIONS, STAR TREK.

In other news, jai is the BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER you are all so jealous.