Hate the comic all you want (I thought it was okay), but...
Narada was the only ship we saw near Romulus (i.e. the only ship in the panel), but likely not the only ship in the vicinity of Romulus - they'd finally begun evacuating at that point.
We should have seen hundreds of vessels-ink a lot cheaper than cgi of minatures
Nero was hardly a "nobody" miner. He and his crew were there at the very start of the Hobus supernova, and he spoke to the senate and directly to the praetor himself about it.
I stand corrected-he indeed address the senate-but the mining guild are still the mining guild after hobus doubt they would have any higer station in romulan politics-and hold on was not nero seen in the company of spock-who was not in their goodbooks either!
Nero's given weapons at the Vault (he does posses all the passwords as well as the Debrune Teral'n), but he's not the only one - D'Spal says she's awaiting the arrival of the surviving Romulan fleet. Narada's only the first ship to be upgraded with the reverse-engineered Borg technology.
This part is just rubbish-In China a notable miner rocks up to a secret miltary base with the chinese premiers laptop knows the passwords -Is he let in NO! He at best would be detained until some verification. I chose china in that example as the romulans by next gens to time had developed all the traits of a monolithic paranoid police state. It sounds stupid in the real as much as in trek world-even more so after Shinzons coup-The only evidence that had been some slight reform was the fact the romulans had allowed spock to openly be an ambassador from vulcan.
The fact there was still this ultra sectet military facility -is definate proof the that the society that brought us the infamous tal shiar was still there.
Sorry, Nero could wield any staff all he wants any decent paranoid or diligent military officer (Even if kept out of current events-bloody unlikely the hobus thing was totally unknown at that point) would have told him to wait and do some basic checking who on the senate was this guy etc.
But is by far more ludicrous that ruling Elite -Praetor etc would end forced to hop into a mining ship-Even for appearance sake being last man out (Which is stupid anyway as the ruling elite does not have to worry about popularity) A cloaked Warbird would suffice and be expected.
It was contrived in poor writing all of these events to justify Nero getting a advanced bit weapon tech so the movie could have this super villian ship. I could have belived Nero just found it drifting as a derelict while out mining LOL
But even if you totally disregard Countdown, Narada's dissimilarity to Romulan warbirds makes sense to me. Can you trace a design lineage between an aircraft carrier and an oil rig?
Agreed it should look different from a warbird -But Romulans build ships with the visual being important and operate on the equal pairs of warp narcel technology as well
so disregarding the comic backstory- We build an oil rig to function and care not how it looks after all its out in deep sea and fixed inplace-
A passionate and proud people with a working know how of warp travel for at least centuries would build a ulitarian design but why make it look like borg ship as designed by lady gaga?
It has to be large to travel from system to system processing the ore it mines and storing it I assume but 5km long? Any commercial vessels you know are least 4 times the size of an aircraft carrier (A deridex warbird is 1041 meters) ? I know its space and they are aliens etc -it all just smacks of cool overriding any thought to the race, whats been shown before-the designer of the Narada mentions knives as his inspiration -so there you go it comes down to whats cool looking.
I thinks its ugly and just says everything but romulan to me than again I wont get started on what they did to romulans themselves-
will say this these romulan miners are a breed apart -they watch their world destroyed go on a rampage tackling klingon fleets comfotable with traversing time and space and waiting 25 years to exact revenge-imagine what their soldiers must be like?
That's one of the most laughable defenses of bad writing I've seen. That's right up there with, "you aren't supposed to think about [BLANK], you're just supposed to turn your brain off and enjoy it."
This argument makes no sense in light of where it is taking place. This is a thread about something from STXI and it evolved from that starting point, namely how little the Narda makes sense as a ship, and even only then because of attempts being made to explain it rationally rather than just as the big scary space octopus that it was designed to be. Arguing that I haven't criticized other aspects of other movies in a thread that has nothing to do with those other movies is nothing more than a straw man argument. Recognizing a movie for the dumbed down dumb action flick that it is doesn't in any way negate any argument that I have made against aspects of it that don't make sense or are otherwise just silly.
