strange contradiction?

mrtrexy

When the Kelvin lockbox came out
a lot of people were wondering why
there was a new romulan ship instead
of the Narada.

Somebody asked Captain Geko about
this on twitter and he said that the
Narada was not really from the Kelvin
universe. And that makes sense.

But later I was thinking...

the Romulan uniforms in the Kelvin
lockbox are not from the Kelvin universe
either, but they are selling them that way.

So why would he say "no" to the Narada
because its not from the Kelvin universe,
but say yes to Romulan uniforms that are
also not from that universe?

shevet

The Narada is a complicated mix of Prime-timeline Romulan and Borg technology, and is probably rather hard to reproduce.

The uniforms are just, well, clothes. The Kelvin-timeline Romulans had decades to look at the outfits Nero's crew were wearing, say to themselves, "yeah, cool look," and copy them.

hollowcrown

> @nixboox said:
> The Narada was a mining ship. DS9 was a mining station. Having one and converting it to another purpose is understandable, but suddenly deciding to build a whole bunch of them as a fleet of imperfect ships is illogical.


and if that was the excuse they had given then that would have made sense.

but it wasnt. they said they couldnt put it in the kelvin box because it wasnt really from the kelvin universe.

well guess what? neither are the romulan outfits. so they contradicted themselves with the excuse they decided to give.

saurializard

The Narada is to STO what Ridley is to Smash Bros: Too big. And you can't shrink it down without saying a Q did it.

starkaos

The T'laru is having STO define Kelvin Universe canon. Somewhere in the Kelvin Universe when Kelvin Universe Kirk is destroying the Enterprise again, there is a T'laru Carrier Warbird that looks like the one we have flying around. While the T'laru might be the look the creators of the new Star Trek movies wanted and authorized for a Romulan ship, it still doesn't change the fact that it appeared first in STO and not one of their movies.

nikeix

My concern with any 'contradiction' ended the moment you said "Geko said".

I assume the Narada didn't make it in because a STO ship modeler lost their sanity trying to pack the 10k-long ship worth of detain into the 2k long size limit we've seen with the Tarantula.

That said, the mining laser console was kind of spiteful. Might as well have hung a sign on it that said. "Yeah, we meant to put the Narada here, but somewhere along the line something got buggered up."