So do I. If you consider ENT: Regeneration to be canon (which I do, but ), then this clearly created an alternate universe; the Federation had no knowledge of the Borg in TNG: Q Who?BigJKU316 wrote:I like the theory that the POD (point of divergence) is Star Trek: First Contact...
The Narada simply ended up in the ENT universe. It neatly explains everything except for the Narada herself, which the (admittedly non-canon) Countdown comics did explain.
I was actually able to explain the Narada (and her "strange" crew) IU rather easily: it's simply a ship class we hadn't seen before. The Romulans like making ginormous ships; everyone know this. The crew being "different" from Romulans we've seen in the past? Take a person from, say, Houston, Texas, and then take a person from Plantersville, Texas (only about 40 miles away) and compare the two. One is likely to be an educated urbanite who speaks recognizable English, and the other is likely to be an incomprehensible rube with a 5th grade education. Nero's crew are miners, not the city-dwellers or military-types we've seen in the past. Just because they're different from the Romulans we've seen in TNG and DS9 doesn't make a valid argument against the canonicity of the Narada or her crew.