Star Trek 11 Movie Spoilers
Tim Bruening
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Very weird sequence of events: Romulus is threatened by a supernova.
Old Spock seeks to save it by using his black hole machine to absorb the
star, but is too late. Romulus RIP. Nero blames Spock for failing to
save Romulus. Spock's machine causes both Nero and Spock to go back in
time over 100 years. Nero arrives just before James T Kirk's birth,
then has to wait for 25 years for Spock to arrive. Nero captures Spock
and his black hole machine, then forces Spock to watch as Nero sucks
Vulcan into a black hole!
In the graphic of Vulcan collapsing, why didn't we see the debris of the
7 starships Nero had destroyed?
Several Federation ships go to Vulcan to investigate "a lightening
storm" in space. The Enterprise arrives a little later to find Nero'
ship and the destroyed Federation ships. After a brief battle, Nero
invites Captain Pike over for peace talks, but instead interrogates
him. Young Spock takes over. Kirk questions his orders and is
expelled.
Old Spock is stranded on an icy moon or planet near Vulcan. Young Spock
strands Kirk on that same moon or planet for mutiny. Old Spock rescues
him and mind melds with him to download into Kirk's mind everything Old
Spock knows of the Nero affair. Scott and Kirk beam onto the Enterprise
as it travels at warp. Kirk takes over the Enterprise by proving Young
Spock to be emotionally compromised by the destruction of Vulcan and the
death of his mother Amanda. With Old Spock's help, the Enterprise
defeats Nero. Kirk gets a commendation. The two Spocks meet.
To my utter astonishment, the movie ends with the altered time line. I
was expecting Old Spock to go back in time to save Vulcan, but that did
not happen! The creators did not hit the reset button!
I advocate that Old Spock go back in time (via the warp around a star
method) to ambush Nero (at the place he will be waiting for Old Spock
at), using Scotty's transwarp transporters (to beam people on board from
a distance) and/or dimensional shifts (see "The High Ground" from TNG)
to beam bombs on board right through the Narada's shields. I figure
that he might be able to get the Vulcan colonists and/or the Romulans to
provide him with the necessary resources to build a fleet advanced
enough to deal with Nero. 6 billion Vulcans are counting on him!