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Star Trek Countdown Comic Book to Link Post-Nemesis TNG Era to New Movie

By GustavoLeao / 07:09, 18 October 2008 / Feature Films

TrekMovie. com posted more details about Star Trek Countdown, the IDW prequel comic book mini series, focusing on the origins of Romulan villain Nero, written by Mike Johnson and Tim Jones from a story by J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurztman with art by David Messina, on sale January 2009. (Beware of minor spoilers)

According to TrekMovie, this comics prequel, which is said to ‘take us right up to the movie,' is primarily set in the time before Nero goes back in time, specifically the Next Generation era after Star Trek Nemesis. The main characters for the prequel will not be the young TOS crew but Nero and the elder Spock (and possibly familiar characters from the TNG era).

Star Trek co-writer Roberto Orci told TrekMovie "["Star Trek: Countdown"] is about how you connect the Next Generation era to our continuity, inspired by when we last saw Mr. Spock in [fifth season TNG episode] "Unification""

More details can be found at TrekMovie.

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Poor Kelvin | Report this post to moderator
By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:03:49 on Oct 18, 2008

Assuming the Roms take a ship back, it's late 24th century tech versus early(earlier) 23rd century tech and the USS Kelvin doesn't stand a chance.

You'd think those 30th century time cops would monitor the situation and prevent it, but then you wouldn't have a movie plot.

Thanks to ENT, I'm still nervous about restarting a potential franchise on a movie where time travel is the core reason for the plot to be set into motion. But I've got my fingers crossed!

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RE: Poor Kelvin by Admiral Arex @ 14:00:42 on Oct 18
Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by GustavoLeao @ 09:52:07 on Oct 18
    RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by Capricorn Two @ 14:11:39 on Oct 18
       RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by Sam Cogley @ 18:39:57 on Oct 18
       RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by GustavoLeao @ 17:02:20 on Oct 18
          RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by TRexx @ 17:37:13 on Oct 18
             RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by GustavoLeao @ 17:50:14 on Oct 18
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                   RE: by GustavoLeao @ 13:32:40 on Oct 19
                RE: Poor Enterprise (Possible Spoilers) by TRexx @ 18:10:11 on Oct 18
       Yeah by Jean-Luc @ 16:01:03 on Oct 18
RE: Poor Kelvin by TheInnkeeper @ 08:40:51 on Oct 18
RE: Poor Kelvin by sb2004 @ 08:40:47 on Oct 18
    RE: Poor Kelvin by cnathanw @ 08:54:16 on Oct 18

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Poor Kelvin | Report this post to moderator By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:03:49 on Oct 18, 2008

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By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:03:49 on Oct 18, 2008