The Narada

[Atekimogus]

Well it seems we have reached stage two of the Trekking digestive process.

Step 1, we see the Narada for the first time. "Awesome, scary, what a great movie"
Step 2, after taking a bit thinking about it. "Yeah...the design is scary and visually pleasing but come on...a mining ship, that doesn't make sense...."

I am also not a huge fan of the ship but given that it was with 100% certaintanty designed to be a big, scary, evil, planet-destroying ship (sigh...once again) and not an exact represantation of a 25th century mining space ship I am just accepting it as it is. There are some things you better do not think much about it otherwise they will ruin your 15th rewatch

[Mark]

Personally........I detested the ship, both inside and out. Completely impracticle. I mean, they have walkways with no railing so you can fall all the way to the bottom of the ship? The outside looked like something stolen from B5 IMO.

[Tsukiyumi]

Honestly, just a D'deridex would've been a great "villain" ship.

I didn't have too much of an issue with the Narada, though.

[Teaos]

Meh, I jut hate how the baddies have a evil looking ship, how cliche.

[Tsukiyumi]

Meh, I jut hate how the baddies have a evil looking ship, how cliche.

I'd probably go with a completely innocuous looking ship, personally.

" Captain, we're being hailed by that beige-colored plain looking thing on the screen."

"Meh. Ignore it."

Boom.

[Graham Kennedy]

Nero is coming to destroy Vulcan!!!!

[Tsukiyumi]

Exactly.

[Vic]

I'm sooo terrified!

[Atekimogus]

Early cloaking device?

[Sionnach Glic]

That's brilliant.

[steamrunner]

Personally........I detested the ship, both inside and out. Completely impracticle. I mean, they have walkways with no railing so you can fall all the way to the bottom of the ship? The outside looked like something stolen from B5 IMO.

Wow...that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the Narada - it's a Babylon 5 background ship! Where's John Sheridan and Susan Ivanova when you need them?

[Avatar2312]

Well. For the Mining Ship:

After Nero upgraded his "Mining Vessel" at the Vault with adapted Borg technology, that - let me quote the comic - "will give our surviving fleet superior warp, cloaking, and sensor capabilities beyond the wildest dreams of the federation. And it learns. Self repairing nanotechnology not only fixes any problem it anticipates potential threats and modifies systems accordingly, literally growing the ship to adapt", the Narada ceased to be any sort of commercial ship. It even crippled an entire late 24th century klingon fleet without breaking a sweat.

That such modifications don't necessarily include a 5-star hotel for the crew inside seems pretty clear to me.

Strange is: After the Narada blew up dozens of 24th cent. ships without any problem, why does ist take over a minute to transform the kelvin into dust, after it was obvious that the ship is on a collision course? Even more because the Kelvins shields and weapons were already off-line...

Maybe the technology weakened the Narada because of the anticipation of potential threats. I mean... compared to the E-E, the Kelvin was throwing cotton balls *gg*

Nevertheless. The ramming scene describes perfectly why Nero and his crew spent the next 25 years or so in a klingon prison. Narada was critically damaged, drifted into klingon space (the battle took place mere 75000km away from klingon territory), crew had to abandon ship. The Narada began self repairing, the crew was taken (or maybe let itself being taken) by the klingons. When the time came the ship responded to a signal of Nero and rescued them. During the escape a klingon fleet of some 50 ships showed up and was blasted into pieces (the SOS Uhura intercepted).

[Tyyr]

75,000 km? The moon is farther away than that.

[Nickswitz]

I think that's how it drifted there.

[Mark]

The only thing I can think of is that we don't know how LONG it took the Narada to destroy those Klingon ships. It seems to have an armament limited to those torpedo looking things, so if the battle over Rura Pente lasted for several hours, then that would explain it.