Perhaps the exploded planet is Romulus and all Nero does in the film is to try to restore it? Perhaps the federation did something that inadvertently caused the total annihilation of this poor guys home planet and he, at last in his own mind is just trying to set things right?
I got the idea from the way he delivers the line "Fire everything", yeah, I'm part Betaziod.
I got the idea from the way he delivers the line "Fire everything", yeah, I'm part Betaziod.

Plucky, do your self a favor. Go ahead spend a cupple of bucks and pick up COUNTDOWN:The prequel to STAR TREK. Trust me you would be doing your self a favor!( It's a GREAT read anyway!)