Who's up next to humiliate Picard with his actions?
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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I doubt it.
Captain Boday. With the transparent skull. I'd have lost it, too!
My personal sense is that Picard had withdrawn entirely from the effort once Starfleet withdrew from the refugee project. The red matter project seems like a desperate last effort by Spock to avert a complete apocalypse.
(I think it relatively unlikely that the Romulan supernova would have been averted by an infusion of black hole-creating red matter. Spock might instead have been trying to prematurely collapse the Romulan star into a black hole before it went supernova. This would have spared worlds outside the Romulus system from the effects of a nearby supernova entirely, and would even have provided some time to evacuate Romulans from Romulus. A world slowly freezing absent its sun is in a dire position, but it is much less badly off than a world flash-vapourized.)
That sounds about right.
Spock outright says, " I promised the Romulans that I would save their planet" in the 2009 film. Which meant he somehow thought he could save Romulus by destroying their sun. Honestly the magical Hobus supernova in another system worked better. Maybe the journalist just lumped Hobus as a "Romulan sun" since its in their empire?
IMDB is highly inaccurate. It originally listed Jeri Ryan in Episode 1.
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It does beg the question, what would happen if the Borg tried to assimilate a flesh and blood synthetic humanoid without realising it in advance, would it crash the Collective as Datas positronic brain alone was more than a match for the Collective as he had the advantage of being the real deal that the Borg can only dream of.
Look at what happened on BSG, the Cylon Raiders refused to fire on the Galactica when they realised the final five were on board.
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I get the feeling Laris and Zhaban wont be far behind Picard, I very much doubt they will just sit there at the chateau.
They just have to stick around for the harvest I suppose.
That might have been metaphorical.
Beyond that, if Spock did collapse the Romulan star into a black hole before its supernova, that actually would have saved the Romulans' home planet. Conditions would become much more difficult, but not impossible.
If nothing else, it is much easier to evacuate people from a planet that still exists than it is from a world that has been vapourized. Conceivably there could be years to evacuate people from a Romulus absent its sun.
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Nah anyone can do that I would think.
They should have gone with him, the fact they didnt push to go probably means they have their own plans to pursue.
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Collapsing the Romulan sun into a singularity would be just as final for the people of Romulus/Remus, it would just have been a slower death.
Supernova = Quick death via overwhelming explosive force in light
Singularity = Slow death as the world is torn apart in darkness
Highly unlikely anyone or anything would be able to escape either, even with the technology available as the gravitational pull of even a small singularity inside the system would be impossible to escape.
Supernova = Quick death via overwhelming explosive force in light
Singularity = Slow death as the world is torn apart in darkness
Highly unlikely anyone or anything would be able to escape either, even with the technology available as the gravitational pull of even a small singularity inside the system would be impossible to escape.
Picard resigned from Starfleet in 2385. Musiker is familiar with the '86 vintage of Chateau Picard. So they did have some interaction together after the flashback scene at the beginning of the episode. Though it was probably her reaching out to him in 2386 instead of the other way around.
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Actually no. Converting their sun to a black hole by itself wouldn't rip the world apart. It would go on orbiting the black hole just like the sun so long as nothing disturbed its orbit.
Of course, it would soon enter the mother of all ice ages - and then the air would start freezing out - but you'd have a good deal of time. Earth would take approximately a year to get to -73 degrees Celsius, for example. So while there isn't plenty of time, there's time enough to get people offworld, and even have some survive in underground habitats (provided they had a power source). Maybe even undersea habitats if Romulus is geologically active enough to keep the water liquid at the bottom of the ocean.
Or at the very least the Ferengi Consortium.
(we did see the Ferengi Symbol on the side of a building in the first episode)
I'm sure there's a line.
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