Trek XII shows us that the interference and destruction caused by Nero have destabilized all sorts of things in every empire in known space. Everyone is pissed with everyone else, and it looks like the brink of an all-out war. Kirk and crew take aboard Ambassador Spock and another Federation ambassador (Admiral Pike?) to attend a conference of all of the major powers that aims to reestablish some sort of stability. There's several attempts to sabotage the conference, headed off one after another by the crew of the Enterprise working off of Spock Prime's advanced knowledge of the factions involved - and frequently involving a bit of humor and fan-wankery. It looks like the conference will be a success - until it is completely derailed in the last minutes of the movie by something Spock failed to anticipate - a Ferengi arms merchant who wants war just to sell weapons, and who was behind the conference in the first place, because unbenownst to any on board the Enterprise (except Pike?) he has also been using it as a gun show. Movie ends with all of the representatives of the major powers leaving, clearly with the intent of taking their people to war against one or more of the other factions, and then some sequence with the Big Three talking about what it all means.
Trek XIII opens with a (joyously fanwankish) free-for-all space battle over possession of a source of Omega particles - some ancient artifact (Iconian? Preserver?) that the same Ferengi merchant from the last movie has tried to auction off to the highest bidder. When the auction ended, every losing faction decided to try to take it by force. One Romulan ship escapes with the artifact, and the Enterprise pursues. Kirk and Spock manage to steal the artifact by disguising themselves as Romulans following a plot very much like the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident". Escaping from Romulan space, the crew is pleased - until they begin receiving transmissions indicating that large portions of space, including major worlds of the Klingons, Romulans, and Federation (including Earth), have all been destroyed by Omega particle weapons, and that remaining worlds are being overrun by troops from something called The Dominion. A wide-broadcast communication reveals that the Ferengi merchant was actually a Founder, who gloats that the worlds of the Alpha and Beta quadrant solids have fallen to their own stupidity, because they were each willing to buy Omega particle weapons made with particles harvested before the auction, weapons that could be detonated remotely by the Dominion. The Enterprise goes to hide with the Vulcan survivors, whose location had been kept secret from the general public for security reasons. They are there for an unspecific amount of time, when Ambassador Spock tells the Big Three that the artifact that the Dominion used was never found in his own timeline, and that he is now worried that it will be and used to horrible effect in the Prime universe. He and young Spock have calculated the means to return to his home time and universe... but he needs a ship to take him. The three discuss it, alone, at which point Spock reveals to Kirk and Bones a plan to set their own universe right again by using the calculations for slingshot that older Spock showed him. Once they arrive, they will immediately go back in time in the Prime universe to stop the events that destroyed Romulus and sent Nero and Spock back in the first place....
XIV: TNG/NuTOS Crossover in which they succeed, but end up stuck in the Prime late 24th century.
I figure this is all pretty dumb, with lots of awesome fanwanks, ships, and explosions. So needless to say, I eagerly anticipate being contacted by Abrams and Co. any minute now.
Trek XIII opens with a (joyously fanwankish) free-for-all space battle over possession of a source of Omega particles - some ancient artifact (Iconian? Preserver?) that the same Ferengi merchant from the last movie has tried to auction off to the highest bidder. When the auction ended, every losing faction decided to try to take it by force. One Romulan ship escapes with the artifact, and the Enterprise pursues. Kirk and Spock manage to steal the artifact by disguising themselves as Romulans following a plot very much like the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident". Escaping from Romulan space, the crew is pleased - until they begin receiving transmissions indicating that large portions of space, including major worlds of the Klingons, Romulans, and Federation (including Earth), have all been destroyed by Omega particle weapons, and that remaining worlds are being overrun by troops from something called The Dominion. A wide-broadcast communication reveals that the Ferengi merchant was actually a Founder, who gloats that the worlds of the Alpha and Beta quadrant solids have fallen to their own stupidity, because they were each willing to buy Omega particle weapons made with particles harvested before the auction, weapons that could be detonated remotely by the Dominion. The Enterprise goes to hide with the Vulcan survivors, whose location had been kept secret from the general public for security reasons. They are there for an unspecific amount of time, when Ambassador Spock tells the Big Three that the artifact that the Dominion used was never found in his own timeline, and that he is now worried that it will be and used to horrible effect in the Prime universe. He and young Spock have calculated the means to return to his home time and universe... but he needs a ship to take him. The three discuss it, alone, at which point Spock reveals to Kirk and Bones a plan to set their own universe right again by using the calculations for slingshot that older Spock showed him. Once they arrive, they will immediately go back in time in the Prime universe to stop the events that destroyed Romulus and sent Nero and Spock back in the first place....
XIV: TNG/NuTOS Crossover in which they succeed, but end up stuck in the Prime late 24th century.
I figure this is all pretty dumb, with lots of awesome fanwanks, ships, and explosions. So needless to say, I eagerly anticipate being contacted by Abrams and Co. any minute now.
