So i keep thinking its Captain Pike who ultimately allowed Vulcan to be destroyed.
SPOCK: Captain, the Romulan ship has lowered some kind of high energy pulse device into the Vulcan atmosphere. It's signal appears to be blocking our communications and transporter abilities.
PIKE: All power to forward shields. Prepare to fire all weapons.
What Pike did not say: We don't know what they're doing. Fire phasers at the pulse device.
But its clear that Pike recognizes the pulse device is a problem. Here's the text:
PIKE: Without transporters, we can't beam off the ship, we can't assist Vulcan, we can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Sulu, Engineer Olson, will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they lowered into the atmosphere that's scrambling our gear. You'll get inside. You'll disable it, then you'll beam back to the ship.
Isn't it pretty silly to go through the whole "space jump" rigamarole rather than just destroy it directly?
The other ships arriving at Vulcan didn't have a chance to stop Nero - he destroyed them immediately. Enterprise did... and Pike made not one, but two wrong calls.
Isn't he the man who allowed Vulcan to be destroyed?
SPOCK: Captain, the Romulan ship has lowered some kind of high energy pulse device into the Vulcan atmosphere. It's signal appears to be blocking our communications and transporter abilities.
PIKE: All power to forward shields. Prepare to fire all weapons.
What Pike did not say: We don't know what they're doing. Fire phasers at the pulse device.
But its clear that Pike recognizes the pulse device is a problem. Here's the text:
PIKE: Without transporters, we can't beam off the ship, we can't assist Vulcan, we can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Sulu, Engineer Olson, will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they lowered into the atmosphere that's scrambling our gear. You'll get inside. You'll disable it, then you'll beam back to the ship.
Isn't it pretty silly to go through the whole "space jump" rigamarole rather than just destroy it directly?
The other ships arriving at Vulcan didn't have a chance to stop Nero - he destroyed them immediately. Enterprise did... and Pike made not one, but two wrong calls.
Isn't he the man who allowed Vulcan to be destroyed?