Do you think other people tried going into the Nexus after Generations?

[The Rock]

I wonder if other people who knew about the Nexus actually tried parking their ship in its path hoping that they would get swept up by it but knowing full well that it might not work and were willing to die.

Also, what do you think would happen if the Nexus ever flew through Borg space in the DQ? I wonder what Borg drones who got swept up in the Nexus would do in it.

 

[Kilana2]

The Borg need no Nexus, they have Unimatrix Zero....

 

[Winterwind]

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were others that tried to get into the Nexus. I can see how a personal tragedy, for example, could lead to someone wanting to escape that way.

 

[Vger23]

It's actually a massively interesting sci-if / metaphysical concept that I'd love to see intelligently explored at some future point in Star Trek's future.

 

[Khan Jr]

It depends on if the full events of the Soran incident were publicized. If not, the Nexus would remain an obscure phenomenon. Those who are killed by it or stay inside indefinitely won't be talking, and those who experience then Nexus then leave and spread the word have to be extremely rare.

 

[Timo]

I guess it also depends on what the Nexus really is. If it's a mass transit system with advanced inflight entertainment, its seemingly erratic wanderings probably involve actual dedicated stops somewhere. Or used to, those billennia ago when stars and planets were at different positions... If it's a luxury space condo gone feral, its reputation might not precede it but it might have fellow condos out there flying this way and that. If it's just a silly cloud inducing feel-good hallucinations at a high risk and cost, and without any true time travel component to it, governments might take no interest. But if what Picard experienced was real, rather than a looping hallucination, then the phenomenon might currently be sailing from star to star under heavy warship escort.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Dukhat]

It's actually a massively interesting sci-if / metaphysical concept that I'd love to see intelligently explored at some future point in Star Trek's future.

The Nexus was just a poorly thought out plot device to get Kirk and Picard together in the most contrived way possible. But yes, any silly plot device can be expanded upon later, just like the supernova in ST’09 was in STP. But unless Picard is actually still in the Nexus after all this time, I don’t think it will be brought up again.

 

[Qonundrum]

I wonder if other people who knew about the Nexus actually tried parking their ship in its path hoping that they would get swept up by it but knowing full well that it might not work and were willing to die.

Also, what do you think would happen if the Nexus ever flew through Borg space in the DQ? I wonder what Borg drones who got swept up in the Nexus would do in it.

I keep misreading "DQ" as "Dairy Queen" and I don't know why... I made a dumb photoshop of a Borg outside a Grill'n'Chill once...

I'm surprised the Nexus only takes in organic matter... or given that Kirk was bolted into it when Nexus lightning ripped open the 1701-B and he flew through space into it with just the precise perfect timing... I do wonder if other ElAurians had made it from the LaKul into it...

GEN really did try to be epic with the concept of the ribbon and destroying populated solar systems to redirect the thing... (even if it's just there to shoehorn Kirk in, I think there's enough potential for a strong plot had they not done it for Kirk...) it just needed some more palpable sense of threat built up, so the audience would be more concerned that maybe Soran is a big threat. The potential for the scale is there, it just feels like there's a gap between where they wanted to go with the sense of it all and what was shown. Like the Cyberman in 1966 said to Polly about how millions die all the time and nobody cares for them... oh wait, wrong show...

At least we got the saucer crash, which was brill. Not since Blake's 7 finale have we seen a decent spaceship crash scene and GEN nailed it... wasn't the theatrical version longer than the home video cut? I also recall exterior shots of a front-view angle of the saucer as it's going down through the stratosphere and a couple other bits... needs a proper theatrical cut or director's cut with all the good bits added back in...

With luck the Nexus's trajectory, before and after Soran, will remain far away from the Delta Quadrant. and DQ too, no space anomaly needs a Blizzard... mmmm, minty blizzard nom nom nom...

On edit:

Found it, woohoo!

(Hmmm, in retrospect it needed a "BOGO assimilation!" poster in a window, as well as more Cubes, Spheres, and Horseshoes in the skyline, oh my...)

 

[The Rock]

(Hmmm, in retrospect it needed a "BOGO assimilation!" poster in a window, as well as more Cubes, Spheres, and Horseshoes in the skyline, oh my...)

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I wonder if other people who knew about the Nexus actually tried parking their ship in its path hoping that they would get swept up by it but knowing full well that it might not work and were willing to die.

Also, what do you think would happen if the Nexus ever flew through Borg space in the DQ? I wonder what Borg drones who got swept up in the Nexus would do in it.

"SEVEN OF ELEVEN. TERTIARY ADJUNCT OF UNIMATRIX THREE ZERO FOUR. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE YOU COULD BE HERE? SENSORS INDICATED YOU WERE SEVERED FROM THE COLLECTIVE ON STARDATE 47723.9. HOW IS IT ALSO POSSIBLE WE ARE ON CUBE 298-B? CUBE 298-B WAS LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT TO SPECIES 8472 AND THE FEDERATION STARSHIP VOYAGER NCC-74656 UNDER THE COMMAND OF SPECIES 7211 FEMALE CAPTAIN KATHRYN JANEWAY. ERROR. ERROR."

 

[STEPhon IT]

I wonder if other people who knew about the Nexus actually tried parking their ship in its path hoping that they would get swept up by it but knowing full well that it might not work and were willing to die.

Also, what do you think would happen if the Nexus ever flew through Borg space in the DQ? I wonder what Borg drones who got swept up in the Nexus would do in it.

The whole traveling into and by the Nexus ribbon thing was and still is, for me, outlandish for me. If it's a conundrum these people couldn't possibly know how to get in, and they shouldn't have known how they got out? How was it possible to get out??? I would believe based on it's logic there are two subjects within two spacial planes and was accidentally caught in it and was ripped out to save them. 1 version of the subject is trapped inside and has some psychic connection with his or her other half in normal space. I'm not positive the result of a ship launch into the ribbon would get them back in. I think it would lead these fools to their deaths, like jumping off of a bridge.

Based on the zero repercussions Picard went through in the Nexus, I would believe it would be easy to just leave and just simply tell others about this really cool place they went to and everyone has to try it.

As for the Borg, I would think they would either stay away from it or was caught in its path; if caught in its path the Borg would be destroyed. If they happen to get sucked in, the Borg's fantasy would be quite obvious and not much of a story to be told. The whole concept of the Nexus is best forgotten.

 

[trekshark]

could someone just put on a space suit and beam as close as possible to it and get into it that way?

 

[Smellmet]

could someone just put on a space suit and beam as close as possible to it and get into it that way?

You would have thought so - they managed to beam people away from the ship in the movie and they were going in and out of the Nexus according to scotty. It's just another example of what a poorly thought out concept the Nexus was.

 

[Timo]

Soran tried it once, forty years after the prologue and before the main adventure. He found out it was too difficult. Why would he not do what he did? It's not as if he would ever face the consequences.

It's like claiming that LaForge's "There's nothing I can do!" as regards the warp core would be a plot hole because fans can think of things he could do. He's the chief engineer, from the universe where the core is real. We're just nerds from a different universe altogether. What possible reason would we have for trusting ourselves over the character?

Timo Saloniemi