10 Deleted Scenes That Explain Movie Character Backstories

From one soft reboot to another now, as we take a look at J. J. Abrams first foray into the final frontier.

The 2009 Star Trek movie was Abrams attempt to revitalise the series, because he's a giant nerd. His nerdom paid off big time though, as the film was so successful it spawned two sequels.

The baddie in the first movie is Nero, a Romulan played by Eric Bana. Nero is from the future, having been sucked backwards through time by a supernova.

He's already pretty upset that his home planet was destroyed by Spock's well-meaning plans, but scenes removed from the film show that he had even more reasons to be grumpy.

When the Romulan ship got caught in the blackhole, it ended up in Klingon space. Nero and his people were held captive by the evil race, forced to toil in their mines until they eventually escaped.

To say the Romulans had a rough go of it would be an understatement. It makes total sense as to why they're so bent on revenge against Starfleet and why they were willing to wait so long to get it.