Observation: Nero is a conspiracy theorist trucker

[Set Harth]

Main sequence starts don't go supernova. And if Romulus orbited an unstable. If it had been the kind of star that COULD go supernova, then it would not have made sense for the Romulans to have colonized it, or at least, they would have had plenty of adequate warning that it was time to bug out.

Star Trek is never very good with science but it shat the bed when it came to the 2009 movie.

In the 2009 movie it wasn't the star Romulus was orbiting! Picard simply fucked that up. This was no "normal" supernova, it was a sci fi invention.

 

[M'Sharak]

The subspace quantum singularity rift drive made it happen or whatever nonsense.

Or it was a super-duper hypernova.

By one early definition of science fiction, you're allowed one premise that isn't explained by current science, so I honestly wasn't that worried about it.

 

[publiusr]

The subspace quantum singularity rift drive made it happen or whatever nonsense.

Sternbach’s chronology mentioned something similar with Phi Puma

 

[F. King Daniel]

I am certain one day they'll do a spin-off where it turned out the supernova happened because someone interfered with the star in some way. I'm sure Star Trek Online has already said or implied something along those lines.

 

[Ovation]

I am certain one day they'll do a spin-off where it turned out the supernova happened because someone interfered with the star in some way. I'm sure Star Trek Online has already said or implied something along those lines.

Someone spilled some champagne, perhaps?

 

[David cgc]

I am certain one day they'll do a spin-off where it turned out the supernova happened because someone interfered with the star in some way. I'm sure Star Trek Online has already said or implied something along those lines.

A couple of the PIC novels have also implied there was something hinky going on with that star, and some of the Romulans knew what it was.

 

[Yistaan]

The IDW comics outright has Ambassador Spock find out just before Nemesis that the Romulans' attempt to cloak their entire system during the Dominion War ended up sabotaging their star (this lines up with All Good Things in TNG where the future mentioned an existing Romulus, meaning something unnatural caused their system to go supernova in the Prime Timeline. Strangely this also means that Picard's knowledge of the future in AGT somehow caused the Dominion War to go differently).

Why Ambassador Spock did not immediately inform the Federation (and thus make Romulus' impending destruction a factor in Nemesis, something no one in Nemesis seems to be aware of) is not explained in the comic from what I remember.