10 Star Trek Villains Who Actually Won
7. Nero - Star Trek (2009)
In 2009, Eric Bana burst onto our screens as the derranged Romulan, Nero. He had travelled via black hole into the past, intent on chasing Ambassador Spock to make him pay for, what he felt was, the crime of allowing Romulus to be destroyed.
Within moments of arriving, he made waves. The attack on the USS Kelvin cost the lives of many crewmembers, including George Kirk, father of James. While the ship was damaged (and Nero himself would spend time in a Klingon prison), both returned years later to launch an attack on the planet Vulcan, determined to make Spock watch as his world was lost.
And it is successful.
Nero launches a drill to bore a shaft through to the planets core, then launches red matter into the hole. The crew of the Enterprise can only watch in horror as Vulcan is torn apart by the gravimetric forces of the newly constructed black hole.
Whatever Nero's later fate became, he was the man who destroyed Vulcan.