Earlier than the 2009 movie’s launch, IDW Publishing launched a four-issue comedian e book collection known as “Star Trek: Countdown,” exploring the occasions that led Nero to get his revenge on the unique Spock (Leonard Nimoy). As defined in “Star Trek,” Nero’s blind rage for the legendary Vulcan is born out of the destruction of Romulus, for which he holds Spock accountable. As captain of the mining vessel, the Narada, Nero and the remainder of his crew shaved their heads and inked themselves as an indication of mourning for shedding their house planet.
As defined in “Star Trek: Countdown #3,” a Romulan custom throughout a time of loss noticed mourners paint symbols onto their pores and skin, and their gradual fading would signify the passing of the sorrow felt as their very own life carried on with out those that had been misplaced. Nero and his crew, nonetheless, made the tattoos everlasting, believing that their lives had been over once they misplaced their house and household. Consequently, the ink would by no means fade.
It is a superb little element that “Trek” followers might solely have been conscious of in the event that they snatched up the books earlier than the movie’s launch. Additionally, together with “Star Trek: Picard,” which expanded on the untold fact of “Star Trek’s” Romulans and the failure of the planet being saved, it definitely paints a fair stronger argument as to why Eric Bana’s Nero is probably the most harmful villain in “Star Trek” historical past.