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Nero's tattoos look like something you'd see on a Sith Lord from Star Wars. Though it may indicate he's not necessarily an operative of the Romulan government. Maybe he's some kind of rebel.
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Yeah, he could be a hired operative, to protect the Romulans' annonimity just in case whatever they are trying to do fails. ( which, I give a 99% chance of happening, as our heros will undoubtedly save the day). Then again, having the Romulans go back and screw with time may be Abrahm's way of retconning Star Trek, allowing for some inconsistancies in the timeline. Kind of like how anything after 2064 may or may not have been altered after First Contact, and possibly changing everything after that point in history. *Cough Enterprise Cough*
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Explain... as in ENT never occuring? or justifying it?
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Some people said the Borg wreckage found in the Arctic changed the timeline somehow so that the inconsistencies in ENT are actually *not* inconsistencies, and that everything went back the 'right' way after the Temporal Cold War was resolved.
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Pensive: yeah, justifying the inconsistancies.
I won't mind this movie as long as it doesn't change too radically. I mean, I won't care if I see a slightly different phaser design, or if a console on the bridge looks a bit different, because, afterall this is trek as invisioned and created by someone who has never done trek before. I just don't want them to screw with established canon too much.
Anyways, it's the discussions over minor inconsistancies and discrepencies between events and technology that contributes to Flare being such a fun place.
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And here I thought it was the rampant drug abuse.
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I like this Nero. The tattoos look like they echo the shapes of the TOS Romulan helmets, with a little TNG/Nemesis thing going on around the bridge of the nose.
The tattoo may be a personal thing. By the looks of him (scarred and unshaven), he isn't necessarily on official military business. He's probably slightly crazy in the head.
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Maybe the Romulans and the Federation are all buddy-buddy post-Shinzon and this guy is all "Nu-uh we're superior species remember" so he goes rogue to change the past.
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Well apparently he abides to some rule from the Empire, Bana mentions that he has relatively few scenes in the movie so it's really all up in the air. I wonder how they're going to insert the Orion slave girl...
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Or, he is a Romulan, and they've digitally altered his ear so as not to give that away on the poster (which sould piss people off when the film came out and his pointy lughole was seen to be intact); or he is Romulan but had his ear chewed by his over-affectionate childhood pet Targ. Or whatever. But where it gets really tricky is, suppose it's his right ear that was actually damaged, and they've reversed the image so as not to reveal he's a Romulan on the poster? Bit of a coincidence that his one damaged ear (assuming they're not both damaged) is the one that's visible on the poster (unless they chose to put him on a left-hand quadrant of the poster so his undamaged Romulan ear was hidden). . .
Oh, God. Thinking about all this has made me lose the will to live! I don't fucking know, we'll find out when we get to see the first proper image of him!
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