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progI may have misread it because it went by in a flash, but during the bit when Spock and Kirk are (to their surprise) storming the Romulan ship, there's a beat after Spock says "cover me" and leaves where Kirk, alone, gets a sneaky look and does something to his phaser so that the barrel spins around. I think that's meant to be his furtively changing the gun's setting from "stun" to "kill". He's got a nasty mean streak! (We know their phasers were on "stun" when they beamed aboard beacuse, in the next seen, Spock is mind-reading a Romulan he had just shot. I assume that his power doesn't extend to corpses.)
When Old Spock was frankly telling people that he was from the future, their reaction was more like he had said "I am an undercover CIA agent" versus "I am a magical pirate ghost". In other words, it was met with skepticism but not outright dismissal.
What this hints at is that, in the Trek universe, time travelers pop in and out of the stream so often that they're accepted as fact, and show up on the news from time to time. One doesn't necessarily expect to meet one, but running across one during a galaxy-saving adventure isn't at all impossible.
I choose to believe that this was intentional, and very subtly done! It certainly jibes with Trek's colorful past (ahem) regarding time-travel tales.
When Old Spock was frankly telling people that he was from the future, their reaction was more like he had said "I am an undercover CIA agent" versus "I am a magical pirate ghost". In other words, it was met with skepticism but not outright dismissal.
What this hints at is that, in the Trek universe, time travelers pop in and out of the stream so often that they're accepted as fact, and show up on the news from time to time. One doesn't necessarily expect to meet one, but running across one during a galaxy-saving adventure isn't at all impossible.
I choose to believe that this was intentional, and very subtly done! It certainly jibes with Trek's colorful past (ahem) regarding time-travel tales.