Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:But the rubber science quibbles are the best part.
I had only two real quibbles, besides the rubber science of course.
I mean, how could the astronomical event that started Nero on his deranged quest have possibly been the galactic threat
that future-Spock claimed? Don't the energy waves given off by supernovas travel at mere light speed? The only way that the Romulan homeworld would have
been endangered would have been if the supernova were in their own solar system, and if that were true, future-Spock's plan of turning the supernova into a
black hole would have destroyed the world anyway.
Why did the Romulan ship use a super energy drill to bore a hole in the planet before dropping in the black hole forming red goo? Wouldn't forming a black
hole on the surface of the planet have done the exact same thing in a fraction of the time?
If the ice planet was close enough to get that great a view of the black hole forming, wouldn't it have been pulled in?
Why did it take mere minutes for the Federation fleet to get from Earth to Vulcan (IIRC, the ETA was noted as approximately 4 minutes before they started the
trip) while it took the Enterprise and Romulan ship hours to get from Vulcan to Earth? Were they coasting on some sort of galactic jet stream during the first
journey?
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