Front and back cover of novelization

[Rat Boy]

Trekmovie has the details.

Spoilers, of course.

 

[xortex]

Trekmovie has the details.

Spoilers, of course.

Uh, oh, this is gonna be stupid. I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

 

[JuanBolio]

Sounds cool.

xortex - Whaaa...?

 

[Rii]

Uh, oh, this is gonna be stupid. I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

 

[Utopianvista]

LOL that plot is worse than I expected.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

I'm not following.

 

[Utopianvista]

I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

I'm not following.

"planet, its half-mad captain"

 

[xortex]

I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

I'm not following.

It didn't make sense, a half mad Captain of what? Did they mean a Federation Captain from the future? and didn't want to say?

 

[goran'agar]

I got goose bumps reading it. Awesome. Unbelievable. Epic.
This is what Star Trek was meant to be. They conveyed all that in approx 120 words.

I am starting to believe.......to boldly go.......

 

[goran'agar]

The guys at Trek movie are going nuts with excitement over there

 

[Sharr Khan]

In the far reaches of the galaxy, a machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be. On a mission of retribution of the destruction of his planet, its half-mad captain seeks the death of every intelligent being, and the annihilation of every civilized world.

The paragraph clearly means Nero's "machine of destruction" (The Narada one would assume...) and not a planet and "its captain" and we are meant to take from it the "half-mad captain" is intent on the annihilation of Spock's homeworld as the paragraph follows the blurb on Spock.

Oh did I mention? I'm fired up for this movie!

Sharr

 

[Canadave]

I wouldn't put too much stock in the back cover blurb. They usually have little to do with the actual contents, at best. Sometimes they're flat-out wrong.

 

[M'Sharak]

I didn't know a planet could have a Captain.

I'm not following.

It didn't make sense, a half mad Captain of what? Did they mean a Federation Captain from the future? and didn't want to say?

It makes perfect sense. Reduced to basics:

Sentence 1
(prepositional phrase), a machine of war (<--sentence 1 subject) bursts into existence (prepositional phrase).

Sentence 2
(prepositional phrase), its half-mad captain (<--sentence 2 subject) seeks the death of every intelligent being, and (secondary verb phrase).
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Notice how Sentence 2's subject (its half-mad captain) refers directly back to the subject of Sentence 1 (a machine of war). This is how paragraphs are often structured.

 

[Kirk1980]

How was that any way spoilery?

It doesn't do much for me one way or the other but the SQUEES on TrekMovie are getting a liiiiiiiiiiittle deafening.

 

[JoeZhang]

On a mission of retribution of the destruction of his planet

is a typo surely and should be:

On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet

 

[JoeZhang]

I wouldn't put too much stock in the back cover blurb. They usually have little to do with the actual contents, at best. Sometimes they're flat-out wrong.

Actually it fits perfectly with everything we know about the film and then events shown in the countdown prequel.

The

Spoiler: spoiler for countdown comic

the destroyed planet is Romulus

 

[DWF]

On a mission of retribution of the destruction of his planet

is a typo surely and should be:

On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet

Trekmovie.com got it wrong you can see on the picture of the back cover the book got it right.

 

[datas_cat_spot]

I forget sometimes how great it is that Bana is playing Nero. I feel like his character will end up as the linchpin for this story, making it either very cool or very bland.

 

[Cheebo]

So the destruction of Romulus happens in the "prime" time line (TOS through Nemesis) then?

 

[Darth_Pinche]

I get a whole star crossed lovers vibe from the novel synopsis. Maybe the novelization will have Kirk and Spock sitting naked in a bathtub, wearing sombreros?