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Nero's "unexpected encounter" (Nero comic spoiler)

urbandk

urbandk

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According to this TrekMovie article, in the latest Nero comic the Narada goes on autopilot out to the Delta Quadrant where it encounters what is most likely V'Ger.

I haven't read the entire comic, so I don't know the outcome. If you have read the comic or care to speculate, do you think that this encounter will obviate V'Ger's coming to Earth or just be a preview of V'Ger in the new timeline? Is the nebula-sized entity V'Ger? What is the relation between V'Ger and the Borg?
 
urbandk said:
According to this TrekMovie article, in the latest Nero comic the Narada goes on autopilot out to the Delta Quadrant where it encounters what is most likely V'Ger.
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I don't see any mention of the Delta Quadrent or V'Ger there. Is there some other confirmation that that's what it is? Because if so, these writers are coming up with some of the most fanwanky shit I've ever seen.
 
Ghoul Malakai said:
urbandk said:
According to this TrekMovie article, in the latest Nero comic the Narada goes on autopilot out to the Delta Quadrant where it encounters what is most likely V'Ger.
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I don't see any mention of the Delta Quadrent or V'Ger there. Is there some other confirmation that that's what it is? Because if so, these writers are coming up with some of the most fanwanky shit I've ever seen.
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It's a possible implication in the preview panels. The blue cloud, Nero picking up a telepathic message, thinking it has some connection to Spock...
 
Ugh. I hadn't thought any of the Powers That Be took that Borg/V'Ger stuff seriously.
 
Five imaginary credits says V'Ger tries to assimilate Narada with a green make-it-disappear torpedo, and Nero responds by using red matter to destroy V'Ger in one shot.
 
FredH said:
Five imaginary credits says V'Ger tries to assimilate Narada with a green make-it-disappear torpedo, and Nero responds by using red matter to destroy V'Ger in one shot.
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I thought it was 'blue' make-it-disappear torpedos, and Nero doesn't even have the red matter yet.

Saul's Eye said:
Doesn't mean V'ger is actually in the Delta Quadrent.
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Page 1 of Star Trek: Nero Vol. 3.

"The Edge of the Delta Quadrant"

Maybe 'from' the Delta Quadrant would be efficient enough?
 
FredH said:
Five imaginary credits says V'Ger tries to assimilate Narada with a green make-it-disappear torpedo, and Nero responds by using red matter to destroy V'Ger in one shot.
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That would be kind of funny, actually, if only for the many reasons why it would piss certain fans off.
 
Ghoul Malakai said:
Ugh. I hadn't thought any of the Powers That Be took that Borg/V'Ger stuff seriously.
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All TPTB had to do was either approve or not approve the story the comic's writers have come up with. It's not like CBS Consumer Products dictates the storylines to the authors.

The Shatnerverse novels picked up on Gene Roddenberry's "perhaps the machine planet that fixed V'ger belonged to the Borg" joking suggestion, and made it formal.

The new "Nero" issue arrives in comic shops this week! (Tomorrow, Thursday, for me here in Oz.)
 
Jeyl said:
FredH said:
Five imaginary credits says V'Ger tries to assimilate Narada with a green make-it-disappear torpedo, and Nero responds by using red matter to destroy V'Ger in one shot.
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I thought it was 'blue' make-it-disappear torpedos
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I think FredH is talking about the more powerful versions of those that V'ger was planning to drop on Earth, because I believe those were green.
 
barnaclelapse said:
FredH said:
Five imaginary credits says V'Ger tries to assimilate Narada with a green make-it-disappear torpedo, and Nero responds by using red matter to destroy V'Ger in one shot.
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That would be kind of funny, actually, if only for the many reasons why it would piss certain fans off.
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Nah, the type of fan it would piss off is the type of fan that doesn't give anything resembling a shit about what happens in an obscure comic.

EDIT: I'm one of those fans, of course, and I'm hardly prejudiced against comics--I recently taught a unit on Alan Moore, Frank Miller and Dan Clowes in the college course I teach. But this comic looks to be to those as the Shatnerverse novels are to Dune or The Forever War.
 
If true, this may be a little bit of an overt response to question as to why the nuTrek timeline never has to deal with the events of TMP.

I wonder if therefore Nero will fly all over the galaxy in those twenty years, removing any future troubles the writers would rather didn't exist. Maybe he can throw red matter at the Nexus and let their preposterousness cancel each other out.
 
And don't forget one important detail.

This December marks Star Trek: The Motion Picture's 30th Anniversary. This is nice timing.
 
Page one: Nero flys into the nebula.

Page two: V'GER possess another Romulan on the bridge.

V'GER asks: Are you my creator?

Nero: No.

V'GER unpossess the Romulan, and the ship flys on.

(End.)
 
You know, Countdown was bad enough with all the fanwankery they threw in there, but this takes all that, magnifies it ten-fold. Sweet fuck, why not have Nero deal with the other threats from TOS? The Doomsday Machine, the Whale Probe, and so on in that order.

Hmm, wait a minute, Space Octopus vs Whale Probe. We might be onto something...
 
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