Picard confronted Soran on Veridian III in an attempt to stop him, but was unsuccessful in preventing Soran from destroying the star. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D discovered the nature of Soran's plot, and realized that, by using the solar probe destroy the Veridian star, he would also destroy all of the planets in the Veridian system, including Veridian IV, a planet with a pre-industrial population of 230 million. First, he came to Amargosa system to launched the solar probe from the observatory to destroy the Amargosa star altering the gravitational forces influencing the course of the ribbon and bringing it to the planet Veridian III, where Soran would be waiting for it. Soran became obsessed with returning, and dedicated himself to discovering a way to safely re-enter the Nexus, rather than the more random possibility of flying into it in a ship in the hope that he would be taken into the Nexus before his ship was destroyed.īy 2371, he had developed a plan to destroy two stars. ( Star Trek Generations)īefore being rescued by the Enterprise, the El-Aurians experienced brief moments inside the Nexus, where all of their desires became reality. For the next seventy-eight years it was believed that Kirk had died a hero. Although this was successful, Captain Kirk himself was pulled into the Nexus when an energy discharge from the ribbon impacted the section of the ship where Kirk was modifying the deflector relays. Montgomery Scott, who was attending the maiden voyage of the vessel along with Captain Kirk and Commander Chekov, realized that a resonance burst fired from the main deflector might disrupt the field long enough for the ship to break free. As the Lakul began to lose structural integrity, the transporter was initiated, but the crew was only able to save 47 people out of 150, including El-Aurians Guinan and Tolian Soran.Īfterward, the Enterprise itself became caught in the gravimetric field, and was unable to escape. The crew experienced difficulty in maintaining a transporter lock on them, however, as their life signs were experiencing a state of temporal flux, phasing in and out of the spacetime continuum.

Arriving at the vessels' location, the Enterprise found them trapped in a powerful gravimetric field emanating from the trailing edge of the energy ribbon.Īrriving too late to save the first ship, the SS Robert Fox, the Enterprise moved into transporter range in an attempt to beam aboard the crew and passengers from the other, the SS Lakul. Starfleet first encountered this phenomenon in 2293, when the newly-christened USS Enterprise-B responded to a distress call from two vessels transporting El-Aurian refugees to Earth.

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