Hey. Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that Spock (Prime) just lets his entire planet be killed by Nero when he knows enough ways to time travel that he could totally just go back in time and kill Nero before Nero kills Vulcan? Especially when, unless the rules of universal time travel changed, an altenate universe shouldn't have been created. By the completely constant rules of time travel in Star Trek, the series as we all know and love would be wiped out and replaced by this new reality. I, personally, think Spock was just BSing Kirk so he didn't get worked up about how things were supposed to be better. How the heck would Spock know it was an alternate reality anyways when all his experience pointed to the opposite? He wouldn't know for sure. If anything, he'd know for sure that the future as he knew it ceased to exist. But the movie writers can't have that, can they? Because then all of the franchise would be wiped away and replaced with a clean slate that no longer had Vulcan on it.
Yeah, I know. "tl;dr" right?
On an unrelated note... document editor won't center properly. :(
The Slingshot Effect
Because, really, would the Spock we all know and love just let all those Vulcans die when he knew how to time-travel again and kill Nero before he did. Six-billion lives is worth breaking the temporal prime directive, is it not? (Picks up where the movie left off)
Kirk hadn't been captain for one measly day before Ambassador Spock was asking for the bridge.
"You didn't think this was over yet, did you, Jim?" he asked. "It's only just begun."
The younger, less experienced Spock crossed his arms. "You informed me that you would be assisting in rebuilding Vulcan. This is not Vulcan, Ambassador."
The older man gave a weak, neutral smile. "I did not say that I would be assisting our species from the front lines, Commander." He placed a PADD in front of his counterpart.
"You implied so," the younger one replied plainly, glancing down at the PADD.
Kirk shrugged. "He also implied the universe would implode if you two met. As we are all clearly here..."
He watched the two men as the Commander scrolled through the text. The Ambassador's eyes shone with a knowing hope, and the Commander began to furrow his eyebrows. Weird, mused Jim. He'd thought they could only travel upwards.
The Commander looked up. "Do you truly believe this could work?" There was something shining behind the younger Spock's eyes as well.
The Ambassador replied, "Does it truly matter? Is it not worth the risk?"
"Six billion Vulcans," Spock muttered. He looked up. "The good of the many outweigh the good of the few," he simply said.
"You realize that if we succeed, the universe as you know it will cease to exist."
"Would we not, then, too, cease to exist?"
The Ambassador shook his head. "I, more than anyone else, know that not to be true. You will still exist, as will this entire ship, but the present will be gone and replaced with, if all goes well, the one I know."
"Is this hypothesis based solely on your existence in this time, or do you have other experiences to support it?"
"Many," the older one replied simply. "I am absolutely sure that we will all be displaced in time without the present as we know it."
"The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few," Spock repeated.
The Ambassador nodded. "Every crew member will have to make the decision to stay for themselves before we hurdle ourselves at the sun—"
"Wait, what?" Jim cut in. "What are you guys planning?"
They both gave him smiles. "The Ambassador has a plan to save Vulcan… before it was destroyed."