EXO-6 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Figures

[StarDude]

You could have sci-fi'd a supernova being that... Powerful? Too bad it didn't get explained at all... Comics don't count. You shouldn't need comics to understand a plot point for a movie.

Just for fun let's make up bullcrap they could have put in...
New Subspace weapon experiment that failed and the Romulans accidentally made a star explode with the weapon, but instead of being a normal super nova, the energy went into Subspace through some sci-fi mumbo jumbo and threatened....maybe not the whole galaxy (Spock might have just exaggerated lol), but a lot of star systems as the powerful subspace explosion discharged at medium warp speed, and would take a long time to dissipate enough.

Or whatever else... Because no normal star exploding will threaten the whole galaxy.

Edit: Noticed Romulans auto-corrected to Romans lol.

 

[davejames]

I always thought it was always a potential galaxy-destroyer.... but the actions of Spock Prime from the 2009 movie stopped it before it could get any further than destroying Romulus.

Yeah even for the wildly unscientific Kelvin films, the idea of one supernova destroying the entire galaxy is a huge stretch. So I'd probably see that more as a clarification than a complete retcon.

 

[DParga21]

I always thought it was always a potential galaxy-destroyer.... but the actions of Spock Prime from the 2009 movie stopped it before it could get any further than destroying Romulus.

It wasn't explained at all in the movie.
Basically, there's no supernova that science knows of that would destroy the galaxy, so it was like an annoying clanging bell for people who've ever watched Trek before.
Picard changed it to just the Romulan sun going Nova, which was one of the few positives from that first season of Picard.
Well, I shouldn't say that. There was actually a lot I liked about Picard season 1.

 

[StarDude]

It wasn't explained at all in the movie.
Basically, there's no supernova that science knows of that would destroy the galaxy, so it was like an annoying clanging bell for people who've ever watched Trek before.
Picard changed it to just the Romulan sun going Nova, which was one of the few positives from that first season of Picard.
Well, I shouldn't say that. There was actually a lot I liked about Picard season 1.

Picard didn't really change it. They just didn't elaborate. They kind of hand waved it away...

Kind of like Star Wars episode IX hand waving the "one in a million" shot of that incredibly stupid scene where they lightspeeded into the enemy fleet with one ship, destroying the whole fleet...

SW VIII was worse than the worst Star Trek.

 

[Pauln6a]

My friend's 7 year old was very annoyed at the terrible representation of astronomy in ST09. Their science was bad enough to offend a 7-year old.

Star Trek online did a semi-canonical plot that covered off the background to the supernova, why it happened so fast, and why it had a subspace wave.

 

[Mike86]

In other disappointing news, it looks like Captain Sulu’s belt height will NOT be getting altered despite the evidence we can all see with our lying eyes.

You know, as long as you have Capital E experts around, there’s no way that belt could have slid down the fabric a bit and no longer accurately represents what we ALL saw on the screen

Plus, even though I don’t qualify as a Capital E expert, my eyes can usually discern the color yellow/gold from white which means his example below is from TWOK Commander Sulu and not TUC Captain Sulu.

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Stuff like this is so annoying. Just because we don’t have the screen used uniforms there are certain things that can easily be seen in pictures/screen grabs.

He likes to let everyone know they’re wrong rather than explaining rationally.