Romulan Star Retcon
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:55 pm
Alright, what's different from '09 and Picard's version of what happened to Romulus?
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You might be exaggerating, but entire galaxy? As in alpha beta delta and gamma quadrant?Al-1701 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:38 pm Picard suggests it was a "destroy the entire galaxy" event, but instead Romulus' star itself went Supernova. This was still going to destroy the heart of their empire over the next several decades. Really, that's the only difference for what '09 gave us. Romulus was destroyed and with a sizeable portion of their population trapped planet side due to the loss of the evacuation convoy in the attack on Mars.
Odd that it's their star that goes supernova. Though, there's a special type of Supernova where a white dwarf draws material from a main sequence partner and once it reaches a certain mass is creates a supernova that can render all of space within a hundred light years inhospitable to life. I'm not sure if the Romulan star system has a white dwarf.
JJ Abrams has no sense of scale.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:03 am You might be exaggerating, but entire galaxy? As in alpha beta delta and gamma quadrant?
Or showing planets being destroyed within visual range of each other by StarKiller base.Deledrius wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:18 amJJ Abrams has no sense of scale.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:03 am You might be exaggerating, but entire galaxy? As in alpha beta delta and gamma quadrant?
"A star will explode, and threaten to destroy the Galaxy." -- Spock, Star Trek (2009)
That sounds like they did their homework. I just can't enjoy the constant escalation/scope/everything-is-connected comic-book style storytelling in a Trek setting.Steve wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:35 am Yeah. The writers of Star Trek Online had to work with that, so they gave the nova a technobabble "special sauce" upgrade involving subspace and then outright had it be artificially-induced by a faction of the Romulan Tal'Shiar and Remans under Iconian control. (They also referenced the DS9 "By Inferno's Light" bit where Changeling-Bashir was going to send the Bajoran star supernova, implying this was the same thing but bigger.)
Abrams is all about spectacle with no real substance. I mentioned this before in another forum while Abrams has had an amazing impact on pop-culture (revitalizing Star Trek, Mission Impossible and arguably helping to kick-start the 80's nostalgia crazy of the late 10's) almost every film he himself has written or directed is a film that have been more or less forgotten especially when compared to the films in Trek and MI that make Abrams films look rather tame in terms of character and plot.McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:52 amOr showing planets being destroyed within visual range of each other by StarKiller base.Deledrius wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:18 amJJ Abrams has no sense of scale.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:03 am You might be exaggerating, but entire galaxy? As in alpha beta delta and gamma quadrant?
"A star will explode, and threaten to destroy the Galaxy." -- Spock, Star Trek (2009)
Or Old Spock seeing Vulcan being destroyed from his ice planet prison.
I have said this before, JJ Abrams is just a different version of Michael Bay. More about visuals than logic.
I meant to say wasn't. Trek '09 did.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:03 amYou might be exaggerating, but entire galaxy? As in alpha beta delta and gamma quadrant?Al-1701 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:38 pm Picard suggests it was a "destroy the entire galaxy" event, but instead Romulus' star itself went Supernova. This was still going to destroy the heart of their empire over the next several decades. Really, that's the only difference for what '09 gave us. Romulus was destroyed and with a sizeable portion of their population trapped planet side due to the loss of the evacuation convoy in the attack on Mars.
Odd that it's their star that goes supernova. Though, there's a special type of Supernova where a white dwarf draws material from a main sequence partner and once it reaches a certain mass is creates a supernova that can render all of space within a hundred light years inhospitable to life. I'm not sure if the Romulan star system has a white dwarf.