3. Star Trek - Why Did It Take Nero So Long To Execute His Revenge?
With a movie that deals with Time Travel you will have several problems with continuity (like we mentioned earlier with the Back to the Future example) and JJ Abrams' Star Trek is no exception. While in general it deals with Time Travel rather well, there's one thing that made the audience cringe at one point in the movie. Nero came back in time with a plan to destroy Vulcan with the intention of revenging his own planet, which Spock couldn't save. So, now that he's in a moment in which there is nothing Spock can do to stop him, what does he do? He waits for 20 years until Spock is old enough to stop him. The Reasonable Explanation... If you remember the beginning of the movie, you'll remember that Nero's ship collided with George Kirk's one, severely damaging it. What happened later is explained in a deleted scene. In it, Nero is captured by Klingons (which were at war with the Federation at the time) and, after he explained where he came from he was held prisoner for strategic purposes, since knowing future war tactics would help them in the war. Nero spent 20 years in prison until he finally fought his captors and regained control of his ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamTG33xqe4 For some reason Abrahams decided to cut these scenes from the movie, although they would have made a great addition to the movie's plot.