Nero's Defeat

[urbandk]

I thought the physics of the black hole were all wrong. Nero should have experienced some pretty abrupt spaghettification.

 

[miraclefan]

(triumphant) Glad to see someone else read ''COUNTDOWN''

 

[Jeri]

How do you people rate the destruction of Nero? getting sucked into a blackhole?

Good dramatic logic: live by the black hole/die by the black hole, to paraphase.

 

[Jeri]

I thought the physics of the black hole were all wrong. Nero should have experienced some pretty abrupt spaghettification.

Yeah, apparently in the future Stephen Hawking is right.

 

[erebus]

I would have preferred if our noble Starfleet heroes had actually rescued Nero and his crew, but I will chalk that up to youth and inexperience.

Yes i agree. That was definently an intresting difference, especially when Kirk started to talk about compassion, and i'm thinking, ah yes, Kirk's compassionate nature, and then it was all reversed and he said 'ok whatever you want buddy' and Spock even acted opposite to what I was used to. That was tragically amusing i must admit, but it just added to the excitement for me: not to take anything for granted from now on!

 

[erebus]

I would have preferred if our noble Starfleet heroes had actually rescued Nero and his crew, but I will chalk that up to youth and inexperience.

Or at least tried to save him!

Which would also usefully have given them a better reason for getting caught in the black hole themselves, rather than the way it is now which is they were all distracted by watching Nero die they forgot to move out of the way.

Ah but doesnt that show that Kirk made the correct intuitive decision as per his reputation-to-be (possibly-to-be)?

If he'd decided to rescue, maybe the Enterprise wouldn't have just escaped by the skin of her .. erm.. window: maybe they would not have been able to escape at all!

Obliquely, its kind of symbolic of what would happen if you follow closed-minded fantatics like what Nero could be said to represent: you'd end up where they do.

 

[cooleddie74]

I preferred Nero to have an even grander death, but he got what he deserved. Karma bit him in the ass. The very weapon and technology he used to kill billions of innocent Vulcans ended up destroying him and his crew as well. Not the best TREK movie villain death by a longshot but fairly satisfying.

 

[NCC74894A]

You honestly expect someone to save him after he committed genocide against the Vulcans and wiped out 6 Billion of them?

Actually, yes.

Of course someone must pay for his crimes or someother such wussy saying. Good, Nero needed to die. It serves to show that Spock and Kirk even with there "advanced enlightened culture ways" still see vengance as an acceptible action.

It wasn't necessarily revenge, more like pre-emptive self-defense to keep Nero from trying again in the future (with or without the Narada), and to prevent the off-chance that the ship might manage to escape the black hole. Yes, Kirk did offer to rescue Nero and company and even offered a token justification for it, but considering how quickly he changed his mind, I suspect he was inclined to pre-emptively destroy Nero and his ship all along, and was just looking for an excuse to do it.

 

[startrekwatcher]

It was formulaic and predictable. It wasn't bad but just felt like something I saw before.

 

[Plecostomus]

Grand death how? More or less he choked on his own fuck and died. That's fitting.

'sides what do you do with a man who killed billions?

 

[Trekker4747]

I liked it.

I liked how Kirk offered to save him, Spock scoffed at the idea, Nero refused, and Kirk said, "Fine, fuck you too, then. Buh-bye."

 

[Elim Garak]

Starfleet doesn't execute criminals, no matter what crimes they commit. Could any prison really have held him? A deleted scene showed him escaping from Rura Penthe, and RP makes Federation prisons look like 5 star hotels by comparison.

Though a bad guy actually being captured and going to jail would almost seem like a change of pace, given how rare it actually happens in Star Trek.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I find it interesting that sum 1 predicted this, and that the image of Neros ship being sucked into a black hole looked exactly the same as Nero's ship coming out of one. So basically anyone who argued that the vortex thingy in the trailer wasn't a blackhole was pretty much wrong cos it was one.



Oh happy days.