Countdown - spoilers
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:04 am
I read the Countdown comic last night. Interesting back story... some important points from the comic :
The star exploding is not the Romulan star but a nearby one. And it's not a normal supernova, but some kind of weird anomaly that nobody has ever seen before. Basically the star is sending out a series of explosive blasts. But the thing is, each time it destroys something it makes the next explosion even more powerful. A positive feedback loop. Hence why it is a threat to the galaxy; the more it destroys the worse it gets, until it will destroy everything. That actually makes sense, at least from a story point of view if not a scientific point of view.
Nero mines 'decalithium' for a living. Decalithium can be used to make Red Matter, and Nero mines the stuff that Spock and the Vulcans use to make the ball of red matter in the movie.
Nero's ship looks nothing like in the movie to begin with. After Romulus is destroyed he obtains access codes to a secret Romulan weapons facility. The scientists there are working to develop new weapons using Borg technology they have acquired. The Borg nanoprobes rebuild Nero's ship into what we see.
Spocks rotating ship is called the Jellyfish, and it was designed and built by Geordi.
Data is back and in command of the Enterprise. The thought patterns they downloaded into B4 gradually became fully active, and B4 turned into what was essentially a new Data.
Picard is an Admiral/Ambassador type.
Nero's plan was to destroy Earth, Vulcan and Kronos in the present; with Borg weapons the Narada is essentially invincible. The Klingons attack, led y General Worf, and are defeated. When Nero does his "come aboard" thing Worf leads a group of warriors who kill many of Nero's crew, before Worf is impaled on a big spike. He survives and is rescued by the Enterprise.
Nero's people look like normal Romulans to begin with. There's a Romulan custom that you shave your head and paint patterns on your skin to show grieving; the idea is when the hair regrows and the patterns fade, your grief should fade with it. Nero's crew tattooed the patterns permanently into their skin and shave their heads permanently, to show that their grief for Romulus will never fade or die.
The star exploding is not the Romulan star but a nearby one. And it's not a normal supernova, but some kind of weird anomaly that nobody has ever seen before. Basically the star is sending out a series of explosive blasts. But the thing is, each time it destroys something it makes the next explosion even more powerful. A positive feedback loop. Hence why it is a threat to the galaxy; the more it destroys the worse it gets, until it will destroy everything. That actually makes sense, at least from a story point of view if not a scientific point of view.
Nero mines 'decalithium' for a living. Decalithium can be used to make Red Matter, and Nero mines the stuff that Spock and the Vulcans use to make the ball of red matter in the movie.
Nero's ship looks nothing like in the movie to begin with. After Romulus is destroyed he obtains access codes to a secret Romulan weapons facility. The scientists there are working to develop new weapons using Borg technology they have acquired. The Borg nanoprobes rebuild Nero's ship into what we see.
Spocks rotating ship is called the Jellyfish, and it was designed and built by Geordi.
Data is back and in command of the Enterprise. The thought patterns they downloaded into B4 gradually became fully active, and B4 turned into what was essentially a new Data.
Picard is an Admiral/Ambassador type.
Nero's plan was to destroy Earth, Vulcan and Kronos in the present; with Borg weapons the Narada is essentially invincible. The Klingons attack, led y General Worf, and are defeated. When Nero does his "come aboard" thing Worf leads a group of warriors who kill many of Nero's crew, before Worf is impaled on a big spike. He survives and is rescued by the Enterprise.
Nero's people look like normal Romulans to begin with. There's a Romulan custom that you shave your head and paint patterns on your skin to show grieving; the idea is when the hair regrows and the patterns fade, your grief should fade with it. Nero's crew tattooed the patterns permanently into their skin and shave their heads permanently, to show that their grief for Romulus will never fade or die.
No! I knew this was going to happen the moment B4 appeared in NEM. It was fucking annoying then, and it's infuriating now.
