Okay, it's in one of the issues of the Nero miniseries from IDW that the Narada travels very close to the Delta Quadrant from Rura Penthe in a VERY fast period of time, and is then able to get back to Federation space quick enough to intercept Spock Prime. The thing is, if the Narada is capable of those kinds of speeds, then the Enterprise would NEVER have been able to catch up with Nero before he destroyed Earth.
Nero comic question (Spoilers)
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In Countdown, the Nerada had a cloaking device, and the order and timing of events around the nova and the Jellyfish's launch are a little skewed. Neither that nor Nero are entirely consistant with the film on which they're based.
And while we're on the subject: Nero merging with V'ger?? Who's drug-fuelled idea of a joke was that? I get wanting to give Nero something awesome to do in those 25 years, but V'ger?!?!
In Countdown, the Nerada had a cloaking device, and the order and timing of events around the nova and the Jellyfish's launch are a little skewed. Neither that nor Nero are entirely consistant with the film on which they're based.
And while we're on the subject: Nero merging with V'ger?? Who's drug-fuelled idea of a joke was that? I get wanting to give Nero something awesome to do in those 25 years, but V'ger?!?!
Because encountering the Borg would've been so 2008.
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The timing in the Nero comic seems to be different from the deleted scenes in the film. If I recall the deleted Rura Penthe scenes correctly, I think that Nero broke out once he figured out that it was time for Spock Prime to arrive -- hence his line "The wait is over" that was in all the trailers. But in the comic, he breaks out first, then goes on this quest to find V'Ger, flies the Narada through about a dozen pages of TMP screencaps, and somehow convinces V'Ger to take a break from learning all that is learnable to help him calculate Spock Prime's ETA. And then somehow his rage is sufficient to keep V'Ger from digitizing him and the Narada -- though I'd think there would've been plenty of rage on those three Klingon ships at the start of TMP, and Veej didn't have any trouble digesting them.
The idea of V'Ger coming from the direction of the Delta Quadrant is also problematical, because V'Ger's approach to Earth was from the Klingon Empire, which is nearly the opposite direction from the DQ. True, Kirk did suggest in the movie that V'Ger had come from the other end of our galaxy, and lots of people latch onto that as fact, especially those who theorize a V'Ger-Borg link; but Kirk's statement was only conjecture, and Spock's experiences and statements in his spacewalk suggest that V'Ger traversed many galaxies. And an approach vector toward Earth from the Klingon border is consistent with V'Ger coming in from outside the galaxy, not from the other side of it.
The timing in the Nero comic seems to be different from the deleted scenes in the film. If I recall the deleted Rura Penthe scenes correctly, I think that Nero broke out once he figured out that it was time for Spock Prime to arrive -- hence his line "The wait is over" that was in all the trailers. But in the comic, he breaks out first, then goes on this quest to find V'Ger, flies the Narada through about a dozen pages of TMP screencaps, and somehow convinces V'Ger to take a break from learning all that is learnable to help him calculate Spock Prime's ETA. And then somehow his rage is sufficient to keep V'Ger from digitizing him and the Narada -- though I'd think there would've been plenty of rage on those three Klingon ships at the start of TMP, and Veej didn't have any trouble digesting them.
The idea of V'Ger coming from the direction of the Delta Quadrant is also problematical, because V'Ger's approach to Earth was from the Klingon Empire, which is nearly the opposite direction from the DQ. True, Kirk did suggest in the movie that V'Ger had come from the other end of our galaxy, and lots of people latch onto that as fact, especially those who theorize a V'Ger-Borg link; but Kirk's statement was only conjecture, and Spock's experiences and statements in his spacewalk suggest that V'Ger traversed many galaxies. And an approach vector toward Earth from the Klingon border is consistent with V'Ger coming in from outside the galaxy, not from the other side of it.
