Nero, Disintegration (drabble)

[measured_words]

(for the Drabble at the Edge of Forever challenge hosted by yahtzee63)
Nero, Disintegration

Nero regrets the words spit in anger as soon as they pass his lips. They’re not true. He would never surrender to Kirk, but to lose Romulus again? No.

The Narada is crumbling around him, his crew dying. Ayel is already lost. The frustration and pain tear at him as fiercely as the singularity, and his mind is filled with familiar visions of his home – his wife and family – being ripped apart.

At least, he thinks, he will join them soon. Screams ring out around him, and every detail of this end burns into him.

It seems to take forever.

Comments

[longpig.livejournal.com]

I wondered if maybe some of the Romulans on his ship *would* have preferred not to die, but then I remembered Balance of Terror.

[measured-words.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I rewatched that one a week or so again.

Of course, they were military, and Nero's crew were future!miners, so.... who can say? ^-^