• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Star Trek: Picard teaser trailer

That was just JJ Abrams being JJ Abrams. He did something similar in The Force Awakens, where people look up to see the weapon firing and destroy a planet from different points in the Galaxy. I am starting to wonder if he literally does not comprehend the scale of a Galaxy.

JJ Abrams didn't write the script.
 
Just had a thought...
Kelvin movies are pretty much done at this point... Picard has one more mission on him.. He will somehow prevent the supernova that destroyed Romulus and this will prevent Spock and Nero from going to the past and creating the Kelvin timeline...
:barf:

Not interested.
 
Username checks out ;)

Also, how many people can truly comprehend the size of the galaxy? I mean, even Praxis had an explosion that reached the Neutral Zone with enough power to rattle the Excelsior really good. What's the rationale for that?
Nick Meyer doesn't really have a great track record either, what with the Reliant failing to detect Ceti Alpha 6's destruction, Uhura suddenly needing books to speak Klingon, Klingons not being able to cry despite crying in Day of the Dove, cloaked ships being detectable via emissions, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting.
 
That was just JJ Abrams being JJ Abrams. He did something similar in The Force Awakens, where people look up to see the weapon firing and destroy a planet from different points in the Galaxy. I am starting to wonder if he literally does not comprehend the scale of a Galaxy.

Yeah, it infuriated me that he made that exact same bone-headed decision TWICE. And it was even dumber the second time around.

So are we to interpret that the entire galaxy can "see" Starkiller base firing? Um, what now...???
 
The supernova never made sense. Spock outright said in the film it threatened the galaxy, and no supernova does that in real life.

SPOCK PRIME: One hundred twenty-nine years from now, a star will explode, and threaten to destroy the galaxy.
Yes but in Star Trek's world, where exploding Klingon moons damage starships in Federation space, and a mycellial thingie in the mirror universe threatened to somehow destroy the entire multiverse, it's very possible that it somehow threatened the galaxy.

Kurtzman aside, Picard is being written by a totally different team of people with their own storytelling agendas. Whatever the original intent was (and the ST'09 mind meld scene was heavily altered from what was scripted originally, and JJ was tinkering with it until 2 weeks before the theatrical release), they may retcon it as easily as they did all that TOS lore when Discovery began.
 
Yeah, it infuriated me that he made that exact same bone-headed decision TWICE. And it was even dumber the second time around.

So are we to interpret that the entire galaxy can "see" Starkiller base firing? Um, what now...???
I'm only the most casual of Star Wars fans, but I thought all the destroyed worlds were close by in the same system, a la Vulcan and Delta Vega in ST'09.
 
I'm only the most casual of Star Wars fans, but I thought all the destroyed worlds were close by in the same system, a la Vulcan and Delta Vega in ST'09.

I thought Maz's cantina planet was remote, not at the centre of the Resistance's headquarters! Besides, if the First Order went through all the trouble of destroying every other planet in the system, why spare that one?

HUX: Fire!!

FO OFFICER: Um.. Sir. There are 5 resistance planets, but our Starkiller death beam splits into only 4 separate streams.

HUX: Damn! OK, let's go there in person instead with only a few fighters -- and bring our most important Dark Side force guy too. That's pretty much the same as destroying the whole planet.
 
all that TOS lore
What lore?
I'm only the most casual of Star Wars fans, but I thought all the destroyed worlds were close by in the same system, a la Vulcan and Delta Vega in ST'09.
They were. It was the Hosinian System, the current capital of the New Republic. The attack was a strategic one to eliminate both the leadership and their navy.
I thought Maz's cantina planet was remote, not at the centre of the Resistance's headquarters! Besides, if the First Order went through all the trouble of destroying every other planet in the system, why spare that one?
It was. What in the world are you talking about? Starkiller targeted the New Republic capital.

The First Order sent Kylo Ren to retrieve the map to Luke Skywalker after tracking the Millennium Falcon. So, destroying Maz's cantina planet of Takodana would have been counterproductive to the purpose Kylo was sent on.
 
According to the side lore (which was probably created by other writers at LucasFilm, not JJ), the weapon itself tore a hole in Hyperspace, which is why it could be seen so far away.

The real reason is probably because JJ Abrams.
 
Last edited:
According to the side lore (which was probably created by other writers at LucasFilm, not JJ), the weapon itself tore a hole in Hyperspace, which is why it could be seen so far away.

The real reason is probably because JJ Abrams.
The real reason is because it is a movie about space wizards not a documentary.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top