True, the (apparently) close proximity to Earth is yet another clanger the script makes. Its for reasons like all of the above that the movie's story is such a bloody mess. Everything we're told and see about the Nexus throughout the movie is inconsistent with everything else we're told and see about it.The Nexus is presented to us with the 'hard science' of its trajectory and its history, but its really nothing more than a doorway to a nonsense magical nether-realm. It's a plot coupon to allow Kirk and Picard to team up, but the ultimate result is very unsatisfying because we really just can't suspend out disbelief in the concept.
I suppose this is true. Perhaps the ships got caught in the ribbon, and only subsequently started discovering themselves being taken into this other fantasy reality (my assumption was based on the idea, not actually stated in the movie I agree, that they were looking to enter the Nexus deliberately).
Moreover, why is something moving this slowly not more widely known about? And patrolled? I would think both science vessels and very likely military cruisers belonging to dozens of governments would be tailing this thing through space in the interests of study and tactical exploitation. Those pesky Romulans would just love themselves some Nexus torpedoes
Yet no one cares. This ridiculously destructive monster just wanders through space, very close to inhabited planets, with no one to even warn potential victims. *shrugs*
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