The film opens with a mercy mission. Trying to stop a volcano from erupting and destroying a fledgling civilization. Instead of using thier superior intelligence and simply dropping the cold fusion device into the volcano from the air, they send Spock inside the volcano to manually set the device; nearly dying and causing the Enterprise to reveal itself to this culture, violating the prime directive. Next time, lob the device from a distance...
Review of Star Trek Into Darkness
