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I therefore classified him as a hostage of the war criminal known as Nero. ( Star Trek)Īftermath " Acting Captain's Log, stardate 2258.42.
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Seconds later the planet completely imploded into the singularity, leaving no trace of its existence or that of its six billion inhabitants. Not all of the elders escaped as the surface began to collapse and among the casualties was Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson. Since the elders convened inside the katric ark, direct communication and transporter functions were impossible. Upon hearing of this, and that the entire planet would be obliterated within a matter of minutes, acting captain Spock sent a largely futile evacuation order to the planet and beamed himself down to retrieve the Vulcan elders (including his parents) who were tasked with preserving Vulcan's cultural heritage and wisdom. Nero then ordered a bomb made up of red matter from the Jellyfish to be fired into the planet's core, and when it detonated it created an artificial singularity within the planet. Unfortunately, their efforts came too late the Narada had already reached the planet core. Using captured disruptor rifles, Kirk and Sulu shot at the mining platform's machinery until it ceased functioning. Two Romulan crewmembers emerged from the drill and a hand-to-hand fight began between them and the Starfleet officers, which eventually ended when one of them was burned to death by flames from an exhaust outlet, while the other was impaled and thrown off the side of the platform.
Kirk and Sulu were suddenly left at a disadvantage since Olson had been carrying the explosive charges with which they intended to destroy the platform. Unfortunately, Olson badly miscalculated as he crashed into the platform, fell off the side and was incinerated by the drill's energy discharge. In an effort to achieve total surprise over the Romulans, Olson delayed in deploying his parachute until the last possible instant. The Enterprise and the Narada face off over Vulcan Kirk, Sulu and Chief Engineer Olson onto the Narada's drill platform (interference from the drill made beaming impossible). Before he went to the Narada however, Pike dropped an assault team comprised of James T. He ordered the captain of the Enterprise, Christopher Pike, to surrender himself and come on board the Narada, which he agreed to do. Nero witnessed the arrival of the new starship and was prepared to destroy the Enterprise, when he realized just which ship it was, and that this reality's Spock would be on the vessel. One starship, the newly-launched USS Enterprise, had arrived later than the others (owing to a minor mistake by its rookie helmsman) and nearly collided with the debris field made up of wreckage from the other starships. When they arrived, however, the ships proved no match for the advanced weaponry of the Romulan ship, and the fleet was destroyed in short order. The Narada initially detected seven starships approaching, though it is known that ten Federation ships were launched.Īlthough the USS Mayflower was seen among the fleet in the film, according to the novelization of Star Trek the Mayflower independently intercepted and was destroyed by the Narada before the fleet arrived. With much of Starfleet's resources occupied in the Laurentian system, many ships were partially-manned by Starfleet Academy cadets. The Vulcan High Command sent out a distress call which led to a Federation task force to pursue and the assess the situation. ( Star Trek)Īfterward, the Narada arrived at Vulcan and deployed a high-powered plasma drill in Vulcan's upper atmosphere to drill a huge shaft to the core of Vulcan. Nero then captured Spock and marooned him on the nearby planet Delta Vega, so that he would be forced to witness Nero's revenge for the destruction of his homeworld. The Narada had again intercepted the Jellyfish however, having waited twenty-five years to do so. ( PIC: " Remembrance", " Maps and Legends") Spock was able to collapse the supernova into a singularity using a red matter device, before any other worlds could fall victim, but an enraged Romulan captain named Nero intercepted Spock's ship and threatened to destroy him.īefore he could do so, however, the singularity's gravity well dragged both ships inside, with Nero's vessel, the Narada being thrown back to the year 2233, while Spock's craft, the Jellyfish was pulled in a few seconds later and arrived in the year 2258. A full-scale Federation rescue effort had been planned but was politically controversial even before the rescue armada was lost in the Attack on Mars, at which point the effort was abandoned. – Nero, to Christopher Pike, 2258 ( Star Trek)ġ29 years in the future, a supernova had completely destroyed the Romulan homeworld, Romulus, despite the best efforts of Federation ambassador Spock to prevent it.