There were a number of light-hearted jokes in the film, e.g., (1) the film""s running joke about the American correspondent""s embarrassing loss of his distinctive and respectable English bowler hat three times - it was stolen, left in a cab, and blown off in he wind, and (2) a rattled pedestrian trying to cross a busy village street...You see, unlike our clunky, Earth-bound forms of construction, the technology on Krypton, Superman""s home world, was based on manipulating the growth of crystals.(Meanwhile, inside theNarada, Kirk located Captain Pike and rescued him.) From two different target locations, Kirk, Pike, and Spock were beamed into theEnterprise, as Spock""s spaceship collided with theNaradaand ignited the ship""s stockpile of "red matter" - both ships were disintegrating and a black hole was created.His words set the stage for the legendary tale:Deep among the lonely sun-baked hills of Texas, the great and weatherbeaten stone still stands.Rhodes also appeared, and after learning the doctor""s dark secret about feeding soldiers"" corpses as a reward, brutally machine-gunned him down, and then ordered the confiscation of Sarah""s and McDermott""s guns.