“So I responded in kind.”
The Enterprise’s crew is on a recently discovered planet. Its inhabitants are simple and impressionable. While Spock leaps into a volcano to stablize it*, the enormous starship zooms overhead, the people instantly proclaiming it to be their god. This is not the only reference of a higher power in the film. J.J. Abrams has been given the keys to the universe. A few in fact. One wonders if being the brains behind not only the reboot of Star Trek, but future versions of Star Wars as well has given him the appropriate complex.
