How did Nero's ship become so powerful?

[The Borgified Corpse]

IIRC, Nero said that his ship was a mining ship. Admittedly, it's from the 24th century, so it could have more advanced technology than 23rd century Starfleet. But still, how could one mining ship take out so many of Starfleet's finest? When the Enterprise got to Vulcan, the surrounding space looked like the aftermath of Wolf359.

 

[Samurai8472]

The answer lies in a part of your name and the Countdown comics

 

[Kaziarl]

In general I didn't think it LOOKED like a mining ship, but then I read countdown and understood. Basically it's been outfitted with borg/romulan hybrid tech

 

[Brent]

Also, we are talking about a Romulan ship, from the future, Romulans are already more advanced than the Federation in equal time frames. So imagine a Romulan vessle from the future, even if just a mining ship, very very powerful.

IMO it should have been even more powerful than it was considering the Borg tech background. It should have taken out the ship in one volley. But I guess it did make an easy mess of the Federation ships and not to mention 47 klingon ships.

 

[nx1701g]

In addition to that a ship from the 24th Century thrown back in time to the 23rd would be incredibly powerful. Look at Enterprise: "In a Mirror, Darkly" for more information.

 

[Bisz]

Also, we are talking about a Romulan ship, from the future, Romulans are already more advanced than the Federation in equal time frames. So imagine a Romulan vessle from the future, even if just a mining ship, very very powerful.

I don't think that in the 24th century the Romulans are more advanced than the Fed. All they have are gigantic ships and cloaking devices. The Fed doesn't build gigantic ships because it chooses not to, not because its not capable, and they don't have cloaking tech because of a treaty, not because they can't figure out how to make one.

 

[Brent]

Romulans use a micro-singularity as its power source.

Everytime we see them matched against the Romulans they Romulans seem to have the upper hand.

 

[nx1701g]

In one of the TNG episodes - I believe it was The Defector - La Forge said that they were equal in pretty much every respect with the Romulans except Federation ships were faster.

 

[Brent]

If that is the case, I stand corrected on that topic. It always looked like to me they were more advanced.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

The Dominion didn't think much of them either, even stating that without the Federation both the Romulans and the Klingons weren't much of a threat at all.

 

[SolkaTruesilver]

The Dominion didn't think much of them either, even stating that without the Federation both the Romulans and the Klingons weren't much of a threat at all.

Because of the size of the Federation, not specifically its technological edge.

The Romulans and Klingons have bullied their way into building a big Empire, where the Federation is more like a mix of the EU and UN centered on Humans. Races wants to join the Federation. I'm sure that makes the Fed's territorial expension much quicker.

Ever seen the maps where they compare the Fed to the RSE and KSE?

 

[Bisz]

If that is the case, I stand corrected on that topic. It always looked like to me they were more advanced.

Thats cause the Romulans wanted you to think that, building those gigantic Warbirds and all. All bark, no bite, well, at least not as much as you would think.

 

[Sephiroth]

I take it that the romulan ship is designed for large scale mining, ie taking out small moons or such, thus the heavy ordanance

 

[nx1701g]

If that is the case, I stand corrected on that topic. It always looked like to me they were more advanced.

Thats cause the Romulans wanted you to think that, building those gigantic Warbirds and all. All bark, no bite, well, at least not as much as you would think.

Bigger is better. I know one of the behind the scenes books said that they designed the Warbird to be so large to make people think it was more powerful.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

The Dominion didn't think much of them either, even stating that without the Federation both the Romulans and the Klingons weren't much of a threat at all.

Because of the size of the Federation, not specifically its technological edge.

The Romulans and Klingons have bullied their way into building a big Empire, where the Federation is more like a mix of the EU and UN centered on Humans. Races wants to join the Federation. I'm sure that makes the Fed's territorial expension much quicker.

Ever seen the maps where they compare the Fed to the RSE and KSE?

It was in direct reference to a military invasion of then Cardassian space by the Federation alliance, the Dominion figured the Federation itself would not invade, because they thought at its heart they are timid, when Legate Broca asked "What about the Klingons and the Romulans" the response was that they're not a threat without the Federation to the Dominion.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Also, we are talking about a Romulan ship, from the future, Romulans are already more advanced than the Federation in equal time frames. So imagine a Romulan vessle from the future, even if just a mining ship, very very powerful.

IMO it should have been even more powerful than it was considering the Borg tech background. It should have taken out the ship in one volley. But I guess it did make an easy mess of the Federation ships and not to mention 47 klingon ships.

they should have mentioned the Borg connection in the movie. Because I don't think a 24th Century warbird could take down 47 Kirk era ships...no way. And don't forget, the Enterprise in Star Trek XI is also more powerful than Kirk prime's ship due to the contaminated timeline when the Kelvin went up against it..at least that's my take on it..

Rob