

The enemy ship, the Romulan mining vessel Narada, is vast - so vast that, when Captain Nero and his crew captured Ambassador Spock's little science ship, they were able to keep that ship inside of their own after marooning him on an icy, isolated world.

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The "show" turns out to be the destruction of Vulcan, via a black-hole generator dropped through the shaft drilled in the world. But what saves the Enterprise is that Nero (Eric Bana), commander of the enemy ship, recognizes its markings, and has a special desire that Spock live through the battle - saying that he has something to show him and demanding Captain Pike as a hostage. It enters the scene late, thanks to a mistake by rookie helmsman Ensign Hikaru Sulu (John Cho), and its commander expects an attack, thanks to Kirk and Uhura - Kirk recognizes the "lightning storm" of the distress signal from stories of his father's last action, and (thanks to her linguistic skills) Uhura is the first to correctly translate a similar signal from a Klingon fleet that was soon destroyed. The Enterprise has several advantages over the others in its fleet. It's attempting to drill into the planet's core, with predictably disastrous consequences for Vulcan. The enemy ship - a mining ship, as we discover - has deployed a gigantic drill, stretching from the ship itself to the surface of the planet Vulcan below.
