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Re: [Other]: Star Trek (2009), reviewed by Dal Thrax (5/4)
Thought I'd offer my own answers to the above questions:
Problem: what the heck is Red Matter?
1. Red matter is a plot device. But it's some sort of unstable super matter, related to another popular imaginary substance in Star Trek (protomatter). Problem Solved!
Problem: How exactly did a nova affect Romulus so quickly no escape was possible?
2. The sun went nova because of a trilithium detonation, maybe, caused by terrorists or romulan civil war or WHO KNOWS WHAT. Whatever did it obviously caused some sort of warp acceleration to the expanding nova, and thus the reason it all happened fast enough that the romulans had no time to evacuate their planet. The backstory doesn't tell us, but it also leaves lots of room open to imagine just what started events that led to the termination of all existing Trek canon in one fell swoop. The important thing was that it happened, and the reboot is a success. Whew!
Problem: why did Nero sit on his ass for 25 years?
3. Nero is a douche bag and has a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, which prevented him from taking any real action until Old Spock arrived on the scene. Yeah, he could have caused incalculable amounts of damage to the Federation early on, long before Spock showed up, but that would just be a normal bastard, when he wanted to be an extraordinarily mean bastard instead. Unfortunately, he failed miserably at avoiding all the classic evil villain mistakes 101 class.
Problem: Where is Hoth relative to Vulcan?
4. It's a sister planet in the same system as Vulcan that Spock (and Kirk) is marooned on. He can see the implosion from where he is because of a really, really, really eccentric orbit.....OR he can see because the gravitational drag of the new black hole nearby dragged Hoth in closer. Or...he didn't REALLY see it, as such, but it looked like that in the thoughts he was hastily conveying to Kirk in the mind-meld. It was really just a metaphor, and we did not get to see the telescope that Nero also left with him....
Problem: Super Transporters are universe/storyline wrecking tech
5. Scotty and Old Spock both realized how devastating the Super Transporter effect would be to civilization throughout the galaxy and buried the formula. Scotty is such an amazing genius in his time, that no one else discovers this use of the technology, hopefully.
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