Hobus star
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It isn't said one way or another what he did, specifically. He at least dropped Spock off on Delta Vega first. Beyond that, he might have stopped and had tea for all we know.
Nero is a passionate, angry, irrational, hate filled, half mad (or fully mad) man.
He has seen his family, his entire planet destroyed because Romulan and Vulcan politicians would not act and do what's necessary. Because they let stupid pride and prejudice blind them.
He placed his trust in Spock and his promises and Spock did not deliver. All he ended up offering is patience and more words when swift action was needed.
He wasted valuable time instead of maybe even helping Nero steal by force the technology and save Romulus at all costs.
He was thrown back in time unwillingly and spent a decade in a Klingon prison.
He has a super advanced powerful ship in his hands that destroys Klingon armadas. He does not believe he can lose.
He has centuries to save Romulus in this timeline and a burning desire for revenge right now.
I don't see how anyone can expect such a man to do what we consider the right course of action sitting safely behind our keyboards.
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Its possible for supernova to affect things hundreds if not thousands of lightyears away but again rare since only 1 Supernova every century on average. That part of the film is the weakest and could of easily been avoided and I would of wrote something along the line of this...
Hobus Star is the biggest star known in the entire galaxy and became unstable without any warning. The supernova breached sub space sending a shockwave out causing the nearby Romulus star to supernova and destory that system and did the same in a few other non inhabited systems. The shockwave could of threatened large parts of the Alpha Quadrant but only a small limited shockwave breached subspace Spock and his red matter stopped the rest of the energy.
But thats just me.
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It's not just you -- I too thought that was one of the weakest parts of the movie. "129 years from now, a star will explode and threaten the galaxy...". Um, what? Sorry, but anyone with basic knowledge of astronomy knows it can't be that simple. Even in Countdown they don't really explain how the Hobus star going supernova causes a shockwave that destroys Romulus (and will eventually destroy Vulcan, Earth, etc.) in apparently a matter of days at most.
If they had just included a brief line about the star being some sort of anomaly that created dangerous subspace shockwaves when it went supernova, that would make the whole thing easier to swallow. I mean, it's not like it would have required an excessive amount of technobabble... not Voyager-level technobabble at any rate.
It's not just you -- I too thought that was one of the weakest parts of the movie. "129 years from now, a star will explode and threaten the galaxy...". Um, what? Sorry, but anyone with basic knowledge of astronomy knows it can't be that simple. Even in Countdown they don't really explain how the Hobus star going supernova causes a shockwave that destroys Romulus (and will eventually destroy Vulcan, Earth, etc.) in apparently a matter of days at most.
If they had just included a brief line about the star being some sort of anomaly that created dangerous subspace shockwaves when it went supernova, that would make the whole thing easier to swallow. I mean, it's not like it would have required an excessive amount of technobabble... not Voyager-level technobabble at any rate.
Good point. Let's just sit it out and hope for the best.
Two possibilities:
1. Nero intended to go to Romulus and sort of the Hobus star just as soon as he'd revenged himself apon Vulcan.
2. Nero no longer cared what happened to Romulus, since it was destroyed in 'his' timeline, nothing he could do in the alternate timeline would fix that- it was still gone for him. He was just obsessed with making sure it happened to Spock, as well.
1. Nero intended to go to Romulus and sort of the Hobus star just as soon as he'd revenged himself apon Vulcan.
2. Nero no longer cared what happened to Romulus, since it was destroyed in 'his' timeline, nothing he could do in the alternate timeline would fix that- it was still gone for him. He was just obsessed with making sure it happened to Spock, as well.
I'm pretty sure he made a big deal in his spiel/rant to Pike about creating a Romulan Empire that was free of Federation inteference. But then again, you never know with a raving lunatic that he may be coherent in his plan.
Its possible for supernova to affect things hundreds if not thousands of lightyears away but again rare since only 1 Supernova every century on average. That part of the film is the weakest and could of easily been avoided and I would of wrote something along the line of this...
Hobus Star is the biggest star known in the entire galaxy and became unstable without any warning. The supernova breached sub space sending a shockwave out causing the nearby Romulus star to supernova and destory that system and did the same in a few other non inhabited systems. The shockwave could of threatened large parts of the Alpha Quadrant but only a small limited shockwave breached subspace Spock and his red matter stopped the rest of the energy.
But thats just me.
Okay, but isn't that just about what Spock said, just without the "subspace breaching" term thrown in? It is obvious to us nerds that subspace must've been involved, especially since we saw an explosion near the Klingon homeworld nearly instantly damage a starship light-years away. And the rest of the audience doesn't know what "subspace" is.
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