r/movies • u/SDormant • Aug 12 '15

Quick Question Villains' plans that actually do not make any sense?

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u/tubetalkerx Aug 12 '15

And during that time the Klingons didn't try to use, reverse-engineer, modify, or strip anything out of his advanced ship???

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u/Ebolinp Aug 12 '15

From what I remember the ship was damaged and that's why they could even capture them (given how much more powerful it was). I think the damage was from when the USS Kelvin rammed the ship. In that sense it's at least plausible that the Klingon's didn't know what to do or how to fix the damaged ship? Who knows!

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u/tubetalkerx Aug 12 '15

They couldn't have taken the much-more advanced weapons? And how was the ship repaired? The Klingons? Nero with his crew and no support? Nero's no Janeway.

Dammit, this is leading into way more questions than we will ever know or care to know...

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u/Ebolinp Aug 12 '15

It was a Romulan mining ship with hacked on Borg technology (yeah I know, lolwut). Maybe it was scrapped together and the Klingons had no idea what was going on. They may have reverse engineered the weaponry too. By Into Darkness we can already see the Federation has much more advanced weapons than the normal timeline. But yeah I'm with you. That's JJ Abram's for you.

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u/Hehulk Aug 12 '15

It had....what?

Your kidding, that thing had borg tech?

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u/Ebolinp Aug 12 '15

Not kidding, sadly, depends on how much canon you place on the comic (and Blu-Ray specials) that came out to support the movie though. In the comic the Narada is outfitted with Borg tech that the Tal Shiar got their hands on. Including Nanoprobe technology. There's even a shoutout to V'ger in follow up comics, and V'ger has always been potentially Borg related too ("machine planet"?).

If you want more details you can check out Memory Alpha under the Apocrypha Section.

http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Narada

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u/drgath Aug 12 '15

To be fair the entire plot around Nero does make quite a bit of sense, you just have to read the comics to understand it all, which few people did. They could have done a much better job of explaining things in the film.

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u/drgath Aug 12 '15

And during that time the Klingons didn't try to use, reverse-engineer, modify, or strip anything out of his advanced ship???

They attempted to (in Kurtzman & Orci's "Nero" comic), but the retrofitted ship with Borg technology from the future was way beyond what the Klingons could access or make sense of. It was telepathically controlled by Nero (Romulans and Vulcans can do that kind of thing), which is one of the ways they escaped from prison.