Star Trek: No Subtitle

[Nate the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0y6...layer_embedded

Here we go again...

So Nero and crew didn't actually sit on their hands for twenty years; they were in a Klingon prison. That's one step towards a coherent plot, but they're still on an ice flow about to fall over the waterfall.

I'm still a little confused about why they had to emerge at Kirk's birth. Surely Kirk could've been the rebellious teen wanting nothing to do with Starfleet (and not being a Boy Scout, as Carol Marcus would say), and then have his father killed when he's seventeen (toss in the "I never got to say good-bye" bit for additional pathos). No stepdad, no car off the cliff, just a kid picking a barfight and meeting Pike.

A damaged Nerada gets trapped in a nebula or something and takes five years to get out again at sublight speeds. Furthermore, the Nerada is a REAL mining ship. They find a prototype Romulan warbird (with a non-red matter superweapon) outside the nebula, catch it by surprise and hijack it.

And...presto! No lost years, no overpowered mining ship and a plot that's actually a bit more reasonable!