Ross TenEyck ([info]ross_teneyck) wrote,
@ 2009-05-12 21:19:00
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Star Trek
Yeah, that was pretty good.

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[info]mteneyck
2009-05-14 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Saw the movie too. Keep in mind that I have trouble following the plot-line. Why did Old Spock, knowing full well how extremely dangerous it is, make the device? Was that Vulcan world going poof? I'm being a bit vague here since I don't want to spoil the movie for other people.

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[info]ross_teneyck
2009-05-14 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Well, let's just say that I'm about to spoil details of the movie, so anyone who wants to remain unspoiled should stop reading now. OK?

Seriously, spoilers below.

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OK. The setup was that, in "current" time (presumably post-Voyager) in the original Star Trek timeline, there was a supernova that was threatening to destroy the planet Romulus (where Romulans come from, of course.) Spock volunteered to take care of it, by tossing a bit of "red matter" into the star to collapse it into a harmless black hole. Unfortunately, while he was on the way the supernova destroyed Romulus anyway.

Nero -- the bad guy of the movie -- was the captain of a Romulan mining ship (that's why it had the big drill) and when he saw that Romulus had been destroyed he blamed Spock for it. He chased after Spock, and both of them ended up falling through the black hole that Spock had created. Both ships went back in time, but due to handwaving science babbling Nero's ship came out 25 years earlier than Spock's ship. Nero emerged right on top of the U.S.S. Kelvin, which was the bit right at the beginning of the movie where Kirk was born.

Nero then figured out when and where Old Spock was going to emerge and hung around for 25 years waiting for him. Once he had Old Spock (and his ship with the red matter) captured, he dumped Old Spock on a nearby ice planet with a good view of Vulcan, and then destroyed Vulcan so that Old Spock would know the same pain that Nero felt. Then he decided to go on and destroy other Federation planets for vague reasons.

Because Nero and Spock traveled back in time and then brutally changed history, this Star Trek is now in a parallel timeline to the original Star Trek -- everything from now on may (or may not) happen differently than it did when we saw it the first time around. The biggest difference is that Vulcan is destroyed -- Young Spock estimates at one point that there are now only a few thousand Vulcans left alive -- but also Old Spock is hanging around and he knows about a lot of things that the Federation hasn't found out about yet. The Borg, for instance.

So basically this was their way of "rebooting" the Star Trek franchise, so they can start over in a new timeline without all the continuity headaches they were running into in the old timeline.

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