As before, wouldn't that depend, among other things, on the distance between Praxis and Kronos?With reduced moon mass, won't that mean less tidal forces on Kronos, causing devastating effects on the oceans and ecosystems? Lemme guess: they warp in a new moon and warp out the broken one?
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Praxis seemed to be pretty close to Qo'nos when we saw it in STID.
Which came out years later and is shown in an alternate timeline (and the past). Also, for all we know, it has an eccentric orbit, so closer to Kronos at some times than at others.
That won't matter.
IMO, the key word is orbit there, which would limit the possible ranges to infinitesimally small distances in space terms regardless of the actual orbit period. Frankly, that's probably the case even if it's a "moon" of the Qo'noS star system that happens to pass relatively close to the homeworld sometimes.
If Star Trek is realistic they're probably dead.Fair enough, it's Star Trek, I can roll with a BS shockwave.
Good thing Trek plays a little loose with realism and consequences.
I checked with Perplexity, and it says all of this is sourced from the movie itself, not later productions, not fanon. I must admit, it's been a while since I saw the film myself. Imagine if that ring shockwave slammed into Kronos. 
Why not watch the scene at least?I checked with Perplexity, and it says all of this is sourced from the movie itself, not later productions, not fanon. I must admit, it's been a while since I saw the film myself. Imagine if that ring shockwave slammed into Kronos.
Yes it does. The closer an orbiting object is to its host body, the stronger the tidal forces it places on the host.
I haven't seen the movie in years, meaning 10+ years. You assume I knew where to check in the two-hour movie. This scene does not say Praxis is the moon to Kronos. It says it is "a" Klingon moon in "your sector." None of this points to Kronos.
Still doesn't matter, a moon orbiting a planet that explodes as Praxis did is going to cause global damage and that's assuming it's not an extinction level event.
Yes, I assumed that. How silly of me...it's only the opening of the movie. I just searched "Praxis explosion " in the old YT and that's what I got.
My apologies. My tendency is to go to the source material first.
The scene referenced doesn't answer whether Praxis is a Klingon moon or the moon to Kronos, kind of proving my point.
The following scene has this from Spock:
SPOCK: Good morning. Two months ago a Federation starship monitored an explosion on the Klingon moon Praxis. We believe it was caused by over-mining and insufficient safety precautions. The moon's decimation means a deadly pollution of their ozone. They will have depleted their supply of oxygen in approximately fifty Earth years.
From context it seems there were catastrophic impacts on Kronos.
Thank you, this gives better contact than "a Klingon moon," thank you. I wonder why 70 years later, everything is completely fine on Kronos?
They got Federation help and cleaned up their act.
I meant scientifically, not narratively. How would you repair that kind of catastrophic damage?
Since it was ozone damage, probably start with replenishing that, and creating atmospheric scrubbers that could handle the cities until the ozone could be restored.I meant scientifically, not narratively. How would you repair that kind of catastrophic damage?
I wonder what the long-term effects will be regarding gravitational tidal forces. Give this a watch.
Summar first.
I do wonder how they would handle cleaning up the debris.
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