Star Trek Clarified
I logged into Twitter to post a comment about corn dogs and I read this Tweet from Steve Roemerman, of Roemerman on Record:
“Uhhh..must..resist urge to over analyze the new Star Trek movie. Must..stop..focusing on things that dont make sense..It’s just a movie..ahh!”
I was curious. I responded with this tweet:
“Let it out. What doesn’t make sense?”
Two seconds later, Roemerman responded. Unfortunately, one second earlier, I logged off. Rude, I know, but I really wanted a corn dog. When I logged back in, I found five comments from Roemerman. His questions are valid and deserve a response. I hope this clarifies any issues from the new Star Trek film.
1. The alternate time line doesn’t account for the extreme disparity of the size of the enterprise. It’s like 3 times bigger.
Remember when Voyager traveled to 1996 and Henry Starling had technology from the 29th Century? With Apple’s Steve Jobs, everything became smaller. Because of Starling, everything became bigger. In the new Star Trek movie’s timeline, Steve Jobs never existed, which means things aren’t smaller.
2. I’ve never heard of a supernova that threatens an entire galaxy but expands at a rate slow enough make a plan to stop it.
That wasn’t a supernova. It was a yet-to-be-identified slackernova. Slackernova’s expand slowly. This will be covered in the next Star Trek film, if time permits.
3. What is Red matter. And if all you need is a little dab why have a huge crap load of it?
Red Matter is decalithium, which is processed as a substance that turns supernova’s, or slakernova’s, into harmless black holes. Gene Rodenberry discovered Red Matter when Carrot Top and Kathy Griffin collided, which created a black hole. The reason they have a large load is because they bought it at Sam’s.
4. Why does a black hole at the start of the move create a time portal, but then in the rest of the movie it kills you?
Because both ships were caught in the event horizon. The event horizon allows for time travel, unless the event horizon catches rabies, which is what happened at the end of the movie.
5. Ahhh…I think that is it. I still give it 5 out of 5 stars…but those things just bug me…sorry for the spoilers.
I give 4½ out of 5. Space-time continuum stories agitate me.
They probably went to Sams for some lunch meat, and laundry detergent. Then they saw the Red Matter on sale and thought, “Crap that’s a good price!…I don’t really need that much but…what the heck?”
It’s the next next gen for all the new trekkies. I am still shocked JJ Abrams destroyed Vulcan, for good! The story made little sense to me but then again it’s just cheesy scifi so . At least the new young crew and awesome special f/x makes for some fun eye candy on the big screen:)
Hmmm, that is what I thought.
YAWN……………………………
I know it’s late. Get your rest.
But my question is, if you are going to use a black hole to destroy a planet, why waste all kinds of time drilling to the core of the planet? Why not create the black hole beside the planet — it will still get sucked in.
Because the core of the planet is like the center of an Oreo. Forget the outer layer, it’s the cream we want.