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Added some folks from the Star Trek 2009 Friending Meme. Hello!

In even less exciting news, I'm back at university to take my final two ... finals. Some of my grades are already coming back; this semester came out okay, and probably better than could've been expected, considering I spent almost the entire goddamn time with strep throat—I ended up missing like two weeks of classes, if you add up all the times I had to miss because I was too sick. College is still soul crushingly difficult for me, but I'm actually sort of confident that I can do this just three more times. That's it! Three more times.

It's like a chant. It has replaced my old motto, which was, "I'm the best, I'm good at everything, and nobody hates me."

Actually, I think I'll keep the old motto, too.


McCoy got between Jim and a flying fist only once. And when he woke up about five minutes later—lying on the floor, his shirt soaked in cheap liquor, his young friend nowhere in sight—he only had one thing to say: "I'm never doing that again."


Dude, what was Nero up to for twenty-five years? Besides, y'know, the obvious: plotting.


Chekov, where the fuck did you come from? You being "sewenteen" and all.


James T. Kirk was the worst teenager of all time. Obviously. But Starfleet's apparently cool with letting former felons captain starships, assuming his stepfather pressed charges for stealing that car and driving off a cliff, so I guess this isn't going to affect his future career any. ... Do they even have giant cliffs like that in Iowa? I thought the midwest was mostly flat and stuff.


Doesn't McCoy have a kid with his ex-wife?


How depressing is the rest of Spock Prime's life going to be? Really really depressing. And he's got no one, really, because even if his best friends in the world are alive and kicking it somewhere in the galaxy once again, they aren't his versions. And he can't have much to do with them anyway. That's gotta sting!


Speaking of which, I somehow doubt that young!McCoy would really take any kind of tone with Spock Prime, considering Spock's matured beyond most of the traits that pissed McCoy off to begin with, plus he's so old and dignified and stuff. But considering that the bickering was like the foundation of their friendship, I bet old Spock would miss that.


Okay, Kirk's earned a lot of trust from his crew, but he hasn't nearly gotten the absolute faith he's commanding by the time the television series rolls around. Therefore, the ships not going to run quite as smoothly as we all remember. Or maybe not smoothly at all.

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Well, there's no reason to assume that Nero was angry enough to want to kill six billion people when he first got out of the time warp! So thinking of destroying Vulcan wasn't necessarily a great plot but it might've taken him quite some time to come to that as the logical thing to do next.

Romulan women are soldiers and stuff, so it's probably safe to say they're miners, too. So there probably were kids there. KIRK YOU KILLED ROMULAN CHILDREN >/

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I dunno, I bet he didn't even come up with the "Destroy Vulcan" plan before he caught old Spock and found all the red matter (REEEEED MAAAAAATTER) sitting around. Nothing Nero and company did really smacked of "given any particular thought", so having a genocide thrown together at the last minute is an entirely reasonable assumption to make.

But it would also mean they had even less to think about for twenty-five years. Yeah, there were totally FUTURE ROMULAN BABIES all over that ship. Falling off rail-less walkways and whatnot.

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When Spock came out of the black hole Nero was all, "I WANT HIM TO WATCH." So either he had something kinky in mind or he had the destroy Vulcan plan in mind already! But then he would've had to have known about the red matter beforehand, and for that to make sense -- somehow I doubt the writers cared this much about it, but let's pretend that they did -- he must've been already at least sort of aware beforehand of what Spock's rescue plan for Romulus was.

PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK, EVEN

[maxiboom.livejournal.com]

True enough! I dunno, it's also kind of weird that they apparently never tried to contact Romulus, even though they were perfectly okay with blowing up entire planets, which isn't a good way to go unnoticed. Much less how Nero stayed in command all this time, since there's indications from the way his crew isn't all that gung-ho about jumping to his orders that they're probably not all as on board with this as he is.

Probably because they really wanted to get back down to level 452 for the parent-teacher meeting going on that night. There were free Romulan brownies! THE KIDS HAD MADE MACARONI ART.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Hn, that is true! I don't think they were all into destroying planets until Spock showed up but. I'm sure there's something I could make up to explain why they didn't contact Romulus. Maybe. Nero must've been an awesome guy before he went totally crazy, anyway, maybe that's why he still ... sort of has their respect?

THEY PROBABLY WONDERED WHY THE KEPT SPILLING THEIR DRINKS. WHAT IS THE CAPTAIN DOING UP THERE, THEY WONDERED.

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Oh man, there we go! Most of the mining ship had moved on, and now they all lived in the lower decks of this crazy massive ship and had lives and families and, yeah, technically their futures were in the hands of this crazy guy who kept talking about blowing up planets but there wasn't much they could do about that, was there? And they never talked to each other anymore anyway. So you've only got maybe twenty or so guys up above in on THE PLAN and everyone else is getting on with it. This is my explanation now.

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You realize that this comment thread has created the most depressing possible explanation.

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...Wow.

[maxiboom.livejournal.com]

Probably! But it was already dealing with suicidal/genocidal temporally displaced apocalypse survivors, so it wasn't ever gonna be particularily cheery, heh.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

True. Too bad the movie didn't think this through! Since it's really hard to think of all this and still be all CAPTAIN KIRK FUCK YEAH at the end!