"Hollywood death" in the movie "Star Trek Into Darkness"

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is the prequel to "The Wrath of Khan". I do not intend to rewrite what has already be written regarding "Star Trek Into Darkness", let's just say that you should call this "fan service" instead of  "a movie". There's a scenario all right, but there is no story, no creativity... quite everybody agrees on that...

At the beginning of the film, Admiral Christopher Pike (young Kirk's boss) dies... Spock tries to assist him... I'm sure you've seen (at least) one of these famous "Hollywood heart attacks" in some kind of a movie... Well, cardiologists will tell you they are famous because they're made in Hollywood... So, of course you know what a heart attack looks like: the victim stops what they're doing, their eyes open wide, they clutch their chest, make some funny noises, and then they collapse to the floor. Right?
Wrong. (Don't believe everything you see on TV.) In reality, heart attacks are often much tougher to spot from a distance... Same thing goes for death. Death is a continuum, not a moment. So says science. Instant coffee, instant heart attack, instant death. Well this "Star Trek" movie makes no exception. Admiral Christopher Pike dies as if arrested by cops pointing a gun at him and yelling: "Freeze!" (real cops don't yell "freeze!" by the way, so that's just another fiction). Spock, trying his Vulcan trick called "mindfuse" on Pike says it felt like the "download" had to stop at once because Pike had died... This is one scientific inaccuracy, coming from... Spock...

Real death is a continuum... This is precisely what makes the retrieval of vital organs tricky... The organs have to be living; the person has to be dead... dead enough... So no, Mr. Spock, death is not like a push button light switch... though transplant surgeons sure thing wish it were...

Star Trek Into Darkness Extrait vidéo (6) VO