Was blowing up Romulus a good idea?

[Rahul]

This is I think where a lot about the dissent of Trek09 comes from:
It succeedes as a movie. But it horribly fails at it's attempt to reboot the franchise and free it from continuity. Where other reboots like "Batman Begins" or "Casino Royale" open up with a bang and completely set a distinctive tone, Trek (and all the Kelvin movies actually) are "just another Star Trek movie". They try to make a clean-slate by creating this alternate universe. But in reality they don't set themselves a new reality up, and are therefore completely depended of previous Trek. Not just the technical aspects, but even major character moments only work with knowledge of previous Trek movies. In fact they even complicate the matter, by clearly being mostly depended on previous canon, but not totally, and the whole extend is never clear and we never know "was that a mistake" or "is this deliberatly different here?".
Which is sad. Because on their own they clearly work as movies. But regarding continuity/reboot-baggage, they never rise beyond the level of being just an "offshoot" of the major universe.

 

[The Overlord]

Spoiler: Picard

I feel like this topic deserves to be brought up again, at this point I think destroying Romulus was the right move after seeing Picard. Really the Romulans became a stagnant enemy over the course of TNG, they would do something sneaky, be foiled by the Enterprise crew, slunk away and did the same thing a few months later and we never learned much about them. Now that their planet is gone and they are refugees, I think they are more interesting. We learned they have a secret society that hates androids and AIs, that they have an order of female warrior monks and its interesting to see the formerly powerful Romulans brought low by the destruction of Romulus.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Look how young 2016 me looks!

It's a dangling plot thread for the 24th century, but it made for an awesome motivation for Nero. He lost his pregnant wife. He lost his entire world. And he blames the Federation and wants to create a future where they don't exist.

I love the idea that deep down, he's just doing anything and everything to save the woman he loves. "Because only then will she be truly safe."

And should TV/film Trek ever explore that era, I'm sure they'll make something interesting of it, too.

I don't see anything "ruined", I see an oppertunity for storytelling with real change and huge ramifications, something we have had very little of in the Trekverse.

And they followed up on that plot thread and it was awesome. /THREAD

 

[1001001]

Spoiler: Picard

I feel like this topic deserves to be brought up again, at this point I think destroying Romulus was the right move after seeing Picard. Really the Romulans became a stagnant enemy over the course of TNG, they would do something sneaky, be foiled by the Enterprise crew, slunk away and did the same thing a few months later and we never learned much about them. Now that their planet is gone and they are refugees, I think they are more interesting. We learned they have a secret society that hates androids and AIs, that they have an order of female warrior monks and its interesting to see the formerly powerful Romulans brought low by the destruction of Romulus.

So not only have you bumped a thread that's been dead for over three years, but you did so with spoilers from Star Trek: Picard??

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