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[[folder: Why was Winona even on the Kelvin?]] If the timeline wasn't disrupted until Nero travelled to the past, why wasn't Jim born in Iowa?
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** Someone must've gone back in time and altered it. It must be -wait for it-''[[IncrediblyLamePun Sabotage]]''! Seriously, I could walk into a bar in 1809 and it'd still function pretty much the same way, except I'd be thrown out for being a Negro who came in through the front entrance. [[YouAllMeetInAnInn Or maybe meet a Barbarian and a Bard.]]

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** Someone must've gone back in time and altered it. It must be -wait for it-''[[IncrediblyLamePun it-''[[{{Pun}} Sabotage]]''! Seriously, I could walk into a bar in 1809 and it'd still function pretty much the same way, except I'd be thrown out for being a Negro who came in through the front entrance. [[YouAllMeetInAnInn Or maybe meet a Barbarian and a Bard.]]
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[[folder: Why is Pike so convinced James Kirk should command the Enterprise?]]. In the next film as well. Kirk is a punk townie. His father was a great man, but this James Kirk shows no such ambition at all.
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** The monster is first seen emerging from beneath the ice, and a lot of deep sea creatures are red-coloured because red light is absorbed by water more quickly than other colours. Maybe it actually spends most of its life underwater and only rarely ventures onto the surface?
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* It actually seems to be considerably colder than Earth, as the entire planet is covered in snow and ice. Vulcan itself is extremely hot, with temperatures ranging from 110 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature difference of 100 degrees would seem like a considerable issue to deal with, especially considering there must be hundreds or thousands of more suitable planets in the galaxy.
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** I think an even bigger question is why the hell was Spock okay with a [[HotForTeacher teacher]] / [[HotForStudent student]] relationship.

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** I think an even bigger question is why the hell was Spock okay with a [[HotForTeacher teacher]] [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher / [[HotForStudent student]] relationship.
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** Black holes are inescapable only once you cross the event horizon. Before that, while the gravity does (very) rapidly increase, you can escape with enough power. That said, the amount of mass here would result in a microscopic black hole with a microscopic event horizon. The Enterprise wouldn’t notice any more gravitational pull than it did from Nero’s ship. It’s the same mass after all, not including the magic red goop.
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*** An analysis of the debris field the Enterprise warps into shows that some of the debris does not match up with any of the ships launched alongside the Enterprise when they left Earth, suggesting they may have indeed had a few defensive ships already in the system but had also been destroyed by Nero.
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[[folder:Why do Vulcans ignore an Earth like planet in their solar system?]]

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[[folder:Why do Vulcans ignore an Earth like planet in their solar system?]]
Delta Vega has breathable air but the only inhabitants are two non-vulcans in a Starfleet base.
It doesn't seem much colder than some parts of Earth and the dangerous animals could be dealt with.
Why didn't the Vulcans colonize?
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* There are two Delta Vegas in this continuity. The ongoing comic adapted ''Where No Man Has Gone Before'' and it's mentioned that there's another planet called Delta Vega.
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** He became emotionally compromised by an event that, by word of the original Spock, would most definitely have emotionally compromised the original Spock. When emotionally compromised people experience everything more intensely, and this can include feelings of warmth and gratitude to those they feel are helping them during their period of pain.


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*** Nero is very nearly literally flying a Borg Cube, since most of the Nerada's insane weaponry is repurposed and reverse engineered Borg technology from the Vault. It's entirely likely that while he actually could have taken out the defense grid, the Nerada would have incurred a lot of damage in the process, forcing him to wait for it to repair itself before it could continue. A lot could happen in that time... the Klingons could bring a fleet over to avenge their honor on him, more Federation ships could rally and hit them while they were vulnerable, or worst of all Earth may have been able to evacuate a significant portion of the population. But probably way, way above all of those things is that Nero just simply did not want to wait to commit genocide. He's probably undergone a psychotic break and killing becomes like a drug in that state, he was essentially an addict needing his planetary death fix.
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** Maybe it actually changes colors like a squid, just that the entire time we see it it's in "agitated" coloration.
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*** As is stated directly above this question, it was not about understanding what they were saying via computer translation, it was picking out the exact Romulan dialect among a bunch of Vulcans talking so they could focus in on what the bad guys were saying. If you're getting a bunch of messages in different languages and your computer translates them all into English before you see them, you're not going to be able to easily tell which ones are from the Russians you're monitoring unless you turn off the autotranslator, which means you then need someone who reads Cyrillic.
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**** His wife got his original eye color in the divorce.
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** Listen very carefully to Nero when he interrogates Pike. He says something like "my goal is not simply to avoid my home's destruction, but to create a home free of the Federation!" That line, admittedly easy to miss, actually explains his intentions well and confirms that he's aware of the opportunity he has to save Romulus.


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* For that matter, how does a predator on a snowy world evolve to be bright red? That's a color that shows up rather well against snow (at least, I think I've red that buildings in Antarctica are painted that color to help them stand out).
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*** It could even be Porthos' descendant. As a "prize" beagle, it was probably the product of special breeding.
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** Note, though, that Starfleet ''did'' actually sideline them both. Picard was sent to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone when the Borg invaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', and Captain Sanders of the ''Milinche'' relived Sisko in the hunt for Eddington.

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** Note, though, that Starfleet ''did'' actually sideline them both. Picard was sent to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone when the Borg invaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', and Captain Sanders of the ''Milinche'' relived relieved Sisko in the hunt for Eddington.
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** Note, though, that Starfleet ''did'' actually sideline them both. Picard was sent to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone when the Borg invaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', and Captain Sanders of the ''Milinche'' relived Sisko in the hunt for Eddington.
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* Where has this rule been for the rest of the franchise? This regulation seems tailor-made for Picard in any conflict with the Borg after his assimilation, or Sisko's obsession with Eddington.
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**** That's disruptors, I believe

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