Did Spock save Romulus after all?

[JarodRussell]

It's a safe bet that this superova was artificially caused.

More like the writers didn't know jack shit about it.

Mind you, how could Spock hope to deploy the red matter if he wasn't close to the wave front?

And where did he even want to deploy it? At the center of the supernova, or somewhere near Romulus? And what the hell did he even want to do with that black hole? What purpose did that have? Suck back the entire shockwave? Ridiculous. Vacusuck the part of the shockwave that would hit Romulus? How happy would the entire Romulan star system feel if there suddenly was a black hole inside it?

 

[Pauln6]

It's a safe bet that this superova was artificially caused.

More like the writers didn't know jack shit about it.

Mind you, how could Spock hope to deploy the red matter if he wasn't close to the wave front?

And where did he even want to deploy it? At the center of the supernova, or somewhere near Romulus? And what the hell did he even want to do with that black hole? What purpose did that have? Suck back the entire shockwave? Ridiculous. Vacusuck the part of the shockwave that would hit Romulus? How happy would the entire Romulan star system feel if there suddenly was a black hole inside it?

Not just a black hole - when they are actively feeding they can become quasars can't they, where they blast out massive bursts of radiation periodically? I confess, Spock's plan looks just as bonkers and prone to failure as Kirk's plan to beam over to Nero's ship with just Spock for company...

 

[ProtoAvatar]

It's a safe bet that this superova was artificially caused.

More like the writers didn't know jack shit about it.

An affirmation that can be made about a lot of star trek lore.
Sometimes, the explanations for these inconsistencies are more interesting than the problems, in that they can create story possibilities.

Mind you, how could Spock hope to deploy the red matter if he wasn't close to the wave front?

And where did he even want to deploy it? At the center of the supernova, or somewhere near Romulus? And what the hell did he even want to do with that black hole? What purpose did that have? Suck back the entire shockwave? Ridiculous. Vacusuck the part of the shockwave that would hit Romulus? How happy would the entire Romulan star system feel if there suddenly was a black hole inside it?

Much like the artificial Hobus supernova, artificial red matter singularities have little in common with natural black holes (as you already proved).
Red matter seems to create a large Kerr singularity (the kind that can actually send you back in time as opposed to just sucking you into oblivion).

This sigularity seems to be temporary - it disappears after a few minutes, as the one from the beginning of star trek XI disappeared.

But, more interestingly, Vulcan's destruction shows that the gravitational effects of red matter singularities also spread at FTL speeds (Vulcan went down too fast for anything else).

A FTL, temporary black hole for a FTL supernova.