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Old January 7th, 2012, 08:03 AM   #426
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Default Re: Star Trek: Retribution

Alright, I've got more (and since it's 24 hours plus, no spoiler tags now).

Garr's primary impetus this time is simple--at the conclusion of Retribution, Prentice shoots him with a specially modified phaser, which damages (but not destroys) the nanoprobes said to be sustaining him. By the time the third film starts, his physiology is badly degraded and he's near death. Having failed to either obtain or manufacture a fresh supply of nanoprobes, he resorts to the only option left to him: to travel back in time to a place where he can get them, specifically the Borg attack on Earth in 2367. But since he lost the ISS Voyager in the previous film, he has no information to draw on, so he first visits 2373 (the same night his counterpart takes off in the shuttlecraft, prior to his apparent suicide), to download the information he needs. Then he continues on to 2367, his objective to sneak aboard the Borg cube while the crew of the Enterprise-D verifies that the Borg are "asleep," and steal a supply of nanoprobes from one of the dormant drones. In so doing, the Federation will never realize what happened, since all evidence of his presence will be obliterated in the explosion of the Borg ship.

Garr's plan actually works, and with the last of his fading strength he manages to get the nanoprobes, only to be confronted by an away team from the Fitzgerald--who kills him on sight. So as not to be surprised by his resurrection a third time, the away team examines the body closely, confirming that both its biological and technological components are lifeless, but have to beam off as the Borg cube counts down to self-destruct. In the moment before the vessel explodes, the duplicate Reyf appears, and sees Garr's dead body just as the countdown reaches zero.

What do you think?
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