Hundreds of years in the future, and they don't already have, or can't quickly build, some robot to run in there and fix the doodad in the glowy column?
And Spock, the logical thing would have been to send Ensign Redshirt in there to fix it. That's what they're there for.
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most......
human."
Meanwhile, Vulcans everywhere are saying, "Oh shove your 'human' soul up your human ass. Logic 4 lyfe, yo!"
Widescreen, and it doesn't cut out so abruptly