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IreneStar Trek's Nero: Khan he ain't
May 27th 2009 16:54
Our villain Nero is probably one of the most under-utilized elements of Star Trek 2009. He has potential to become a great Trek villain, but due to budget, editing and overall focus of the movie, he ends up being no more than a frowning, and rather odd, Romulan with a beef.
Nero's the captain of the Romulan mining vessel Nerada. He had been imprisoned on the Klingon penal colony Rura Penthe (a Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country reference) and was then rescued by his crew. This leads to some puzzling questions: Where was the Nerada during the last 25 years, and why was the crew so loyal to Nero?
Sometime in the early 25th century, the galaxy is threatened by a star about to go supernova (it must be one helluva big star to threaten a whole galaxy!). During the star's expansion phase, 25th-century Spock tells the Romulan people that he can save Romulus; but while attempting to do so, the star goes nova. While it is explained that Spock is successful in preventing the threat to the entire galaxy, Romulus is destroyed. Nero is on board his vessel at the time, watching. Both the Nerada and Spock's ship get sucked into a gravity well (singularity/black hole) and get catapulted back in time. Since both ships enter the gravity well at different points they travel back to different points in the past.
The arrival of Nero and his ship, culminating in the attack on the USS Kelvin and the death of George Kirk, as well as the birth of James Tiberius Kirk, compose one of the best Trek moments on film. (It deserves the praise it's garnered, and it's also the movie's one truly emotional moment. I don't know one person who did not get choked up during this opening sequence.)
While it only took an instant for Romulus to be destroyed, Spock had time to have a ship built for the task, collect the red matter, and start his mission. Only the incorrect calculation on the expansion of the star led to Romulus’s fate. The old adage of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind; Nero, along with other ship captains, should have prepared for the worst and started evacuating the planet. Instead, Nero tortures captains, destroy planets, and seeks revenge--for what end? All to avenge a tragedy that he might have--seeing as he's been sent back to the past--actually prevented.
Eric Bana as Nero
Nero's the captain of the Romulan mining vessel Nerada. He had been imprisoned on the Klingon penal colony Rura Penthe (a Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country reference) and was then rescued by his crew. This leads to some puzzling questions: Where was the Nerada during the last 25 years, and why was the crew so loyal to Nero?
Sometime in the early 25th century, the galaxy is threatened by a star about to go supernova (it must be one helluva big star to threaten a whole galaxy!). During the star's expansion phase, 25th-century Spock tells the Romulan people that he can save Romulus; but while attempting to do so, the star goes nova. While it is explained that Spock is successful in preventing the threat to the entire galaxy, Romulus is destroyed. Nero is on board his vessel at the time, watching. Both the Nerada and Spock's ship get sucked into a gravity well (singularity/black hole) and get catapulted back in time. Since both ships enter the gravity well at different points they travel back to different points in the past.
The arrival of Nero and his ship, culminating in the attack on the USS Kelvin and the death of George Kirk, as well as the birth of James Tiberius Kirk, compose one of the best Trek moments on film. (It deserves the praise it's garnered, and it's also the movie's one truly emotional moment. I don't know one person who did not get choked up during this opening sequence.)
While it only took an instant for Romulus to be destroyed, Spock had time to have a ship built for the task, collect the red matter, and start his mission. Only the incorrect calculation on the expansion of the star led to Romulus’s fate. The old adage of “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind; Nero, along with other ship captains, should have prepared for the worst and started evacuating the planet. Instead, Nero tortures captains, destroy planets, and seeks revenge--for what end? All to avenge a tragedy that he might have--seeing as he's been sent back to the past--actually prevented.
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