Only if Nicholas Meyer writes it--you know how he loves the 19th Century fanwank. 
Nero's "unexpected encounter" (Nero comic spoiler)
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Only if Nicholas Meyer writes it--you know how he loves the 19th Century fanwank.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale probe; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale probe! Thus, I give up the photon torpedo!
Only if Nicholas Meyer writes it--you know how he loves the 19th Century fanwank.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale probe; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale probe! Thus, I give up the photon torpedo!
PROBE: If the whales had to deal with that, then I'm just going to assume their dead and go home.
Only if Nicholas Meyer writes it--you know how he loves the 19th Century fanwank.
Okay, though I like Nicholas Meyer, that was a funny statement.
Only if Nicholas Meyer writes it--you know how he loves the 19th Century fanwank.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale probe; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale probe! Thus, I give up the photon torpedo!
PROBE: If the whales had to deal with that, then I'm just going to assume their dead and go home.
As was that.
"And he piled upon the ship's white hull the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a deflector dish on a modulating frequency, he would have shot his heart upon it."
confirmed
And after the're done with V'Ger, do they encounter the Nomad probe?
"Didn't we just finish with this thing?
"Didn't we just finish with this thing?
I read the issue a few hours ago. It's rather well done, and the paintings of V'ger are beautiful!
I read it a few hours ago too and have to agree.
Am I the only one who thinks "Nero's Unexpected Encounter" sounds vaguely like the title of a slash-fiction piece?
Holy crap. Good thing it's just a cartoon.
Nero- Let's go track down the SS botany bay.........
Ayel- and Gorn!
Nero- Yes, and Gorn -_-
How the hell would the Narada even come CLOSE to finding V'Ger? That sounds like the coincidence of the millennium.
Besides, the film showed us exactly what happened to the Narada from the moment it arrived in the past: The Kelvin hit it, the Klingons captured it, Nero got it back, then the rest of the film happens. Where's there room for V'Ger in that?
Normally it annoys the shit out of me when people use phrases like "fanwank" and "continuity porn" but THIS would certainly qualify as one or both of those. What's next, Nero travels back into the past and fiddles while the city burns?
Besides, the film showed us exactly what happened to the Narada from the moment it arrived in the past: The Kelvin hit it, the Klingons captured it, Nero got it back, then the rest of the film happens. Where's there room for V'Ger in that?
Normally it annoys the shit out of me when people use phrases like "fanwank" and "continuity porn" but THIS would certainly qualify as one or both of those. What's next, Nero travels back into the past and fiddles while the city burns?
As it is explained in the pages of the comic book, there's nothing coincidental about it.
In this alternate timeline coincidences rule the universe.
I'm pretty sure you're not.
Where do you get Narada finding V'Ger from? Look at Nero's word balloon in the second of the three frames posted here -- you'll see him saying this:
[bracketed bits added by me]
You could either read it, or ignore it.
I was a bit skeptical after reading everyone's rants earlier in the week, but issue #3 was really enjoyable.
The writers were asked to come up with a few things for Nero to be doing for his lost 25 years, glossed over by the script, while waiting for Spock, and to explain how he knew how long the wait would be. That the Narada caught the attention of V'ger, just as Spock could sense V'ger during his Kolinahr on Vulcan in the other timeline, is logically explored.
The alternative is for Nero to do nothing that links into the ST mythos at all, and then people would be complaining about "all the missed opportunities". Sigh.
Vejur's mission was "to learn all that is learnable" and "to seek the creator". Narada was a kindred spirit, and a mystery.
The only problem I see with that is that the time between Nero's escape from the prison planet and the attack on Vulcan is a little too short for that. Unless he first goes to visit V'Ger, and then returns to destroy 47 Klingon ships in orbit of the planet.