Especially since 2009 had it not be the romulan star, but one near enough for the shockwave to tank Romulus
Comment on [Speculation] Will Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 explain the Romulan Supernova? – Trek Central
halm@leminal.space 8 months ago
Even the Romulan-heavy Star Trek: Picard Season 1 avoided addressing or explaining the supernova in any detail.
Explaining? Stars go supernova occasionally, there’s your explanation. There doesn’t need to be further cause or intervention behind it.
IMO this is a solution (or really several) looking for a problem that just doesn’t exist. As it stands and despite fan speculation, Romulus was destroyed by a natural disaster, which is actually something that happens on Earth and in the wider universe.
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 months ago
That’s from tie-in material, not the film itself.
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
From the script:
SPOCK PRIME: (voice-over) That is where I’m from, Jim. The future. The star went supernova…
SPOCK PRIME: (voice-over) …consuming everything in its path. I promised the Romulans that I would save their planet…
If the sun in question was the Romulan star, then turning it into a black hole to contain the explosion would not save the planet.
Killing the star would not save their planet.
Anything involving Romulus’ star means that ‘saving the planet’ is completely impossible.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 months ago
Yeah, I agree that that part of the dialogue is problematic. However, “Picard” definitively stated that it was the Romulan star.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 months ago
Not spontaneously, with only a handful of years’ notice, they don’t.
I’m all for Trek science being a little weird, but it seems very likely that there was some funny business going on for the star to suddenly blow up and threaten the entire galaxy.
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 8 months ago
Yeah, with Star Trek-level technology, you should be able to tell to the week when a star will nova about 10,000 years in advance.