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"Voyagers"
Star Trek: Nero #3
IDW
Story: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Writers: Mike Johnson & Tim Jones
Artist: David Messina
Cover by
David Messina
October 2009 |
Locking Nero and his crew out of its
controls, the Narada makes a beeline for the edge of
the Delta Quadrant and...V'Ger!
Read the full story summary of this issue at Memory
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Didja Know?
The Nero mini-series did not have
individual titles for the four issues. I titled this
one "Voyagers" after the machines
V'Ger and it's progenitor, Voyager 6, as
well the concept of the Narada and her crew and
searched-for Spock-Prime being voyagers through time.
Page 1 informs us that the events of this issue take place on the edge of
the Delta Quadrant. This is the home quadrant of the Borg.
It has been speculated by fans for the past couple of
decades that the machine world on
which Voyager 6 was transformed into
V'Ger
was the Borg
homeworld. (V'Ger first
appeared in the original timeline in Star Trek: The Motion
Picture and the Borg in the ST-TNG episode "Q Who".)
If so, this would explain why we here find
V'Ger
in
this quadrant and also why the Narada,
partially derived from Borg technology herself, would be
drawn to
V'Ger
as depicted. However,
Nero's dialog on pages 16-17, after having been taken aboard
V'Ger itself, suggests that both V'Ger
and the Borg are essentially children of another ancient, unknown
civilization.
On page 8, we see that Nero still has at least one sample of
the drug he obtained from Quocch on Rura Penthe which
enhances his latent Romulan psychic powers.
As the bridge crew of the Narada resists an energy probe
scan of the ship by
V'Ger, the screen on page 10, panel 6
shows what looks more like a Starfleet data screen than a
Romulan one, with the English word "Planetary" on it (along
with some others, less legible), and an image of what
appears to be Earth on the left of screen. Possibly this was
V'Ger
attempting to locate its homeworld, Earth.
As the
V'Ger
energy probe apparently kills Clavell, it
appears to have greatly aged him in the process, as seen on
page 10, panel 11.
Notice that the images of
V'Ger
shown on pages 5-21 look as
if they are screen shots from Star Trek: The Motion
Picture, with a slightly "comicified" effect applied to
them.
On page 19, Nero uses
V'Ger's massive intelligence to
calculate where and when the wormhole will open again to
admit Spock-Prime into the new timeline.
Unanswered Questions
Has
V'Ger's encounter with the Narada altered its
path to Earth as previously seen in the original timeline's
Star Trek: The Motion Picture? It seems that
V'Ger
could have gleaned Earth's location from the
Narada's navigation computer, so it might actually
arrive in Earth's vicinity quite a bit sooner in this
new timeline.
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