Why didn't Nero....?

[Hartzilla2007]

There are Iranians still around who remember the U.S. siding with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war that killed nearly a million of their people, yet even with them there are elements pushing for some kind of peace process.

Grudges of old men do not a foreign policy make.

Yeah, but do the Iranians have a depiction of the results of that war in their place of government like the Romulans do of the result of the Earth-Romulan War?

That kinda depends. How do the Romulans think of the Earth-Romulan War? Do we even know?

In some ways we were lead to believe the Romulans were totally humiliated and held a generational grudge that makes "Philippines and Japan" look like Rocky and Bullwinkle. But we never do find out for sure; for all we know most Romulans remember the war as "That stupid war that Praetor Valdore started just to divert attention away from son's extramarital affairs."

There was a reference to a 'humiliating defeat at Cheron' in the Defector and the battle at Cheron has been placed at the end of the Earth-Romulan War.

 

[muzzleflash]

A defeat in one battle, that says nothing about the conclusion of the war. It seems to be the case that the Neutral Zone was established to protect both powers from each other, so it makes sense that the war wasn't concluded by a total victory, and both powers were still a significant threat to one another.

For an in-universe reason of why Nero was so stupid (i.e. not because the writers couldn't think of a better villain with better motives), if we accept that Nero and his crew were in fact captured by Klingons, you could consider that those slugs they used for interrogation permanently damaged Nero & Co.'s brain functions, compromising their rationality.

 

[John200]

I am sure it has been discussed, but Ihave been away from the TrekBBS for a while. I am rewatching STXI this morning and wondering...

If Nero was so out for revenge against Spock, Vulcan and the rest of the Federation, why did he not take the Nerada to Romulus, deliver the furture tech to strengthen the Empire and destroy everything he hated?

Judge

Because he was using movie villain logic.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

A defeat in one battle, that says nothing about the conclusion of the war.

Actually must of the information I ever read on the subject either stated or implyed that that battle was the conclusion of the war.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

A defeat in one battle, that says nothing about the conclusion of the war.

Actually must of the information I ever read on the subject either stated or implyed that that battle was the conclusion of the war.

Sure, but it was never established for certain WHICH war it concluded. I rather doubt Admiral Jarok was making reference to a military defeat two hundred years in the past that would have occurred even before HE was born.

I figure it refers to a more recent conflict, possibly the Tomed Incident or something that precipitated it. It also has to be remembered, though, that ninety percent of Jarok's information were clever fabrications to begin with and it's just as likely the higher ups in the Romulan command structure barely remembered Charon at all.