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[Saratoga NX-3842]

So is this Romulus?




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[Saratoga NX-3842]

and this Remus?




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[All Seeing Eye]

OF COURSE! Remus collapses because of too much Dilithium mining (similar to what happened to the Klingon Moon Praxis in Undiscovered country) and the resulting collapse and destruction sends a firey shockwave which destroys Romulus!

 

[Kemaiku]

The first image is flashback during the film to the destruction of Romulus as seen in the Countdown comics, both the comic and film mysteriously do not show its sister planet Remus (shown in Nemesis to be co-habitual to Romulus). The second image is of Vulcan being imploded in the films new timeline by Nero's singularity weapon, delivered after the "cable/drill" scene where it cuts into the planet.

 

[EJA]

VULCAN IS DESTROYED?!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[ancient]

The first is probably Romulus, the second is maybe Vulcan or a klingon planet.

 

[Garak]

I think it probably is, and if they show it being destroyed then it's a good explanation of motivation for Nero in this movie.

 

[urbandk]

VULCAN IS DESTROYED?!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

yeah that would be mega-disturbing. vulcan is as much a part of star trek as earth.

 

[seigezunt]

VULCAN IS DESTROYED?!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

yeah that would be mega-disturbing. vulcan is as much a part of star trek as earth.

and with that I think we might have JJ's alluded "heresy."


I can't wait.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

VULCAN IS DESTROYED?!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

yeah that would be mega-disturbing. vulcan is as much a part of star trek as earth.

and yet we know Romulus is destroyed, Romulus and Romulans are a large part of Trek too. I don't think anything should be taken for granted with this movie. Nero may destroy Vulcan in the 24th century, time travel is used in this movie which may prevent that from happening, or at least in a new timeline.

To be honest I think it's great that Romulus is destroyed (it reshapes the Trek universe dramatically and allows for new power struggles) and I think it's the perfect irony if Vulcan, the origin of Romulans get's destroyed too.

 

[indranee]

VULCAN IS DESTROYED?!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!

that'll teach you to read spoiled threads!

 

[yakueb]

The second planet could be earth - during the second trailer we see cadets running out of the academy as a giant red beam shoots vertically in the distance - is it possible that Nero goes and blows up earth at some point too?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they blew up earth after Vulcan and then Our Gallant Crew has to go back in time to stop him.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they blew up earth after Vulcan and then Our Gallant Crew has to go back in time to stop him.

Impossible, that would mean there'd be two Enterprises and two crews, if the time travelled Ent stopped Nero there'd be no reason for the Ent to go back in the first place and therefore there would forever be two Enterprises.

If I go back in time there'll be two me's, if I alter time so I never time travel there will forever be two me's and i'd never be able to return to my own timeline

 

[yakueb]

I know how that is how it worked on star trek in the past (sorry), but there is no reason for them not to base the time travel in the movie on current quantum physics instead of Back to the Future silliness. Besides, in your theory Nero couldn't go back in time to save the future, because then he would have no reason too, which means... He wouldn't, but then he would have a reason again, so he would, but then he wouldn't anymore... and so on. So we are not using the single-time-line method in this movie.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

^ Nope, you misunderstand completely. As far as the movie is concerned when they time travel they create a new timeline, but regardless of this fact the new timeline WILL have another Enterprise. If the Ent time travels backwards do you think the Entperise in the past will just cease to exist? it doesn't matter if it's a new timeline created because it's still going to have an Enterprise in the past.
Nero has gone back in time to before he himself even exists or his ship even exists, therefore there isn't two Neros or two Neradas. If the Enterprise goes back in time and thus creates a new timeline there WILL be another Enterprise there, and since events in this new timeline will play out differently from the previous timeline the new timeline Enterprise won't time travel and there will forever be two Enterprises and two crews.

 

[Franklin]

We're going to have to wait to see how the fourth comic ends the backstory, but if Spock was unsuccessful at getting the red matter into the Hobus star before it went supernova, there may be many shots of planets being consumed in the 24th century before the story moves back to the 2230s. That thing was supposed to destroy the universe, after all.

The imploding planet is almost certainly Vulcan. In an interview not long ago, JJ used the word "orphans" coming together as a family to decribe the seven characters. Kirk would be one. This would make Spock one, too, at least metaphorically, if his planet is destroyed. Don't know how it applies to the other five.

 

[BenRoethig]

The first image is most definitely Romulus. The planet destroyed in the trailers looks relatively arid leading me to believe its vulcan.

 

[yakueb]

^ Nope, you misunderstand completely. As far as the movie is concerned when they time travel they create a new timeline, but regardless of this fact the new timeline WILL have another Enterprise. If the Ent time travels backwards do you think the Entperise in the past will just cease to exist? it doesn't matter if it's a new timeline created because it's still going to have an Enterprise in the past.
Nero has gone back in time to before he himself even exists or his ship even exists, therefore there isn't two Neros or two Neradas. If the Enterprise goes back in time and thus creates a new timeline there WILL be another Enterprise there, and since events in this new timeline will play out differently from the previous timeline the new timeline Enterprise won't time travel and there will forever be two Enterprises and two crews.

Well, yeah, there might be two enterprises, but the same applies: If Nero changes the past, he has to do so in a way that doesn't change the fact that he went in the past, or he would have a paradox.
Since that doesn't happen he creates a new timeline, and that makes sense.
But he have to assume the same thing would happen if anyone else went into the past, even only a little while. So the enterprise can go back in time a week and prevent themselves from going into the past for the same reason that nero can, because it makes a new timeline.

There is no reason that they can't have two enterprises, especially because one will inevitably get blown up, which is what would likely happen if they pulled this stunt, just because they always do that.

So I agree that it would create a new timeline when nero goes to the past, because otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to do it, but I also do not put it past JJ to have the enterprise go and save itself or vulcan.

So I wouldn't say it is impossible.

I actually think that they might go back in time to save vulcan, because we clearly see it blowing up (we think), and it would be pretty ballsy to leave it gone. So they are going to have to travel back in time to stop it anyway.

 

[WendellM]

I agree with Chemahkuu that it's probably Romulus (it might be a Hobus-system planet flashback, but that seems less likely) and probably Vulcan.

And a side-note to M'Sharak for scaling-down large images and linking rather than just replacing them with text links. More time-consuming, but that's some damn fine moderating!

 

[ancient]

If that collapsed planet is Vulcan, it might explain why (rumor) Spock is so emotionally out of whack, and why Kirk ends up in command.