Countdown #3 Preview (Spoilers)

[OneBuckFilms]

[Garak]He assumed that because that's exactly what the Romulans would have done...[\Garak]

That's probably it, combined with a mistrust/antipathy for the Federation for not making the Vulcans help prevent the mess in the first place.

Well, let's not forget that the Romulans weren't exactly fretting over the whole thing, either. There's blame all around. Starting with the Romulans themselves. That's why I agree with Rat Boy.
Also, why would Nero think the Feds want Romulan space, when that's exactly all that's probably left there? Space, no planets. Further, the Feds have enough to worry about if this star has started to do what Spock said it would do than to make a territory grab. Didn't the Romulans learn anything about the Federation during the war with the Dominion?

The Romulans have a long and historied past of distrusting the Federation. The peace was not easy.

Also, it was heightened in Part 2 that the Romulans and Vulcans generally didn't trust each other, conditioned by 200 years of bad blood.

Also, Nero just saw everything he knows and loveds destroyed, and the Vulcan Council rejecting his plea for help.

That kind of anger will bring out the distrust. He's not thinking logically, he's thinking with his base instincts: Paranoia and Anger.

He's probably going to lash out at the Romulan senate as well, since they ignored his warnings.

When he sees the Federation as the cause of the death of everything he knows and loves, he's going to take revenge, and destroy them.

He has absolutely nothing to loose by doing whatever he wants.

 

[Praetor]

The Romulans have a long and historied past of distrusting the Federation. The peace was not easy.

Also, it was heightened in Part 2 that the Romulans and Vulcans generally didn't trust each other, conditioned by 200 years of bad blood.

Also, Nero just saw everything he knows and loved destroyed, and the Vulcan Council rejecting his plea for help.

That kind of anger will bring out the distrust. He's not thinking logically, he's thinking with his base instincts: Paranoia and Anger.

He's probably going to lash out at the Romulan senate as well, since they ignored his warnings.

When he sees the Federation as the cause of the death of everything he knows and loves, he's going to take revenge, and destroy them.

He has absolutely nothing to loose by doing whatever he wants.

Emphasis mine, but QFT. I think this is the key to his character.

 

[man named Gorn]

Slight spoilers:


I fully expect that nero will be very angry at his fellow Romulan politicians, the vulcans, but to a lesser degree: the Federation. At least how its playing out in the first two issues. With Spock, Data and Picard helping out (where they can), I figure he would be more angry at the first two. We'll see what his motivation is for traveling in time to stop....what....i dunno. But that is part of the fun....

 

[OneBuckFilms]

Slight spoilers:


I fully expect that nero will be very angry at his fellow Romulan politicians, the vulcans, but to a lesser degree: the Federation. At least how its playing out in the first two issues. With Spock, Data and Picard helping out (where they can), I figure he would be more angry at the first two. We'll see what his motivation is for traveling in time to stop....what....i dunno. But that is part of the fun....

The Vulcans refused to give them the Decalithium he needed to create the Red Matter to collapse the star.

His primary target is likely Vulcan, and by extention, the Federation.

 

[Praetor]

Does anyone else think that maybe by destroying Vulcan in the past (in the film) Nero is gathering the decalithium needed to destroy the star in the past and thus prevent the black hole from ever forming in the future? Perhaps by doing so he believes he can create an alternate future where his family never died and a version of him that never traveled to the past at all.

 

[OneBuckFilms]

Does anyone else think that maybe by destroying Vulcan in the past (in the film) Nero is gathering the decalithium needed to destroy the star in the past and thus prevent the black hole from ever forming in the future? Perhaps by doing so he believes he can create an alternate future where his family never died and a version of him that never traveled to the past at all.

I think it's more basic than that. It's revenge on Vulcan, by destroying them and Kirk, and everything they stand for, and inflicting the same pain (that of home world and everything you know) being destroyed.

It could all be aimed at Spock, since the Enterprise, Kirk, The Federation and Vulcan are the things closest to him.

 

[Praetor]

I may well be expecting an overly complex plot, OneBuck. Still, I have hope.

 

[Lyon_Wonder]

Does anyone else think that maybe by destroying Vulcan in the past (in the film) Nero is gathering the decalithium needed to destroy the star in the past and thus prevent the black hole from ever forming in the future? Perhaps by doing so he believes he can create an alternate future where his family never died and a version of him that never traveled to the past at all.

I think trying to change the timeline can be a crapshot. Things could be more in Nero’s favor in the late 24th century. However, things could be even worse. The quadrant could be overrun by Borg, Dominion, special 8472 or whatever, or the Romulan empire could still be a wreck. In Voyager’s “Year of Hell”, the Krenim Annorax, with time altering tech even more impressive than Nero’s Narada, tried to change the timeline multiple times, with less-than-satisfactory results.

 

[JoeZhang]

I've got to wonder if he overshots - because if you could travel in time, wouldn't you go and save the wife first?

 

[Franklin]

The rumors from way back to nearly day one say he and the crew of the Narada found themselves thrown back in time accidentally. So it would seem that he was not trying to change the timeline deliberately at any point.

Bana himself likened them to pirates, which would infer they are opportunists not plotters per se.

 

[EJA]

I'm loving this series.

 

[MadMan1701A]

The rumors from way back to nearly day one say he and the crew of the Narada found themselves thrown back in time accidentally. So it would seem that he was not trying to change the timeline deliberately at any point.

Bana himself likened them to pirates, which would infer they are opportunists not plotters per se.

I like this idea the best.

Accidental time travel would be a refreshing change.

 

[Praetor]

That is true.

 

[Thor Damar]

I'm glad to see that the Cardies get a mention. If somehow it's not the Borg, maybe the Obsidian Order had an old superweapon conveniently laying around after all Kirk never met the Cardassians, did he?

 

[Praetor]

They were my second thought, in fact. Maybe it's a Dominion superweapon left over? I'd prefer it to the Borg.

 

[Thor Damar]

They were my second thought, in fact. Maybe it's a Dominion superweapon left over? I'd prefer it to the Borg.

I'm liking the idea of the Dominion also but yeah it's likely to be the last hooray for the space vampires.

It does seem to me that there is a general plotline about post Dominion War rogue Cardassians causing trouble for the noble Feds.

 

[Praetor]

Silly rogues. You guys need cloaks to help you sneak around.

Speaking of which, I wonder if the Narada has a cloak?

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Silly rogues. You guys need cloaks to help you sneak around.

Speaking of which, I wonder if the Narada has a cloak?

Imagine the trouble Nero can cause with a 24th Romulan Cloak.

 

[ThereAre4Lights]

Nero also seems to have some incredibly misplaced anger and weird logic.

In Star Trek, most villains don't cope so well with logic. Take Dukat for example when he blames Sisko for his daughter's death. Also Shinzon's motivations for destroying Earth come to mind.

 

[Franklin]

Silly rogues. You guys need cloaks to help you sneak around.

Speaking of which, I wonder if the Narada has a cloak?

Imagine the trouble Nero can cause with a 24th Romulan Cloak.

I'd bet he doesn't have one. Just a guess, but probably only Romulan fleet vessels (and maybe not all of those) had cloaks. Not sure why a mining ship would need a cloak.
Of course, that doesn't mean he can't come across one.