Warp Core Explosions

[ThereAre4Lights]

In Insurrection, they dropped a warp core on a subspace rupture with approximately the same effect.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

It seems people are forgetting that George Kirk fought the Narada, before it fought off 47 Klingon ships and who knows how many other ships. I'm just saying shields made a huge difference with photons in the movie, so maybe ramming it was the only way though it's shields when they were at full strength, and he died, his dead hand just missing the "Explode Warp Core" button, he had to press manually.

The Enterprise was also the new flagship, so I bet it has quite a bit bigger core than the one in the Kelvin too. That and Scotty is enough for me not to try to put any blame on George Kirk. He did keep JTK's first name from being Tiberus before he died. Saved a lot of lives that way.

 

[T'Paul]

Ho, boy. I haven't said anything up until now, but the warp-core escape is the one real bugaboo I have with the story.

They plainly said they were going at top warp -- and still being pulled into the singularity's event horizon.

The moment they ejected the core, their speed would drop to zero; and they wouldn't have had a chance to detonate it before the ship were pulled immediately into the singularity.

I'd be glad of a good explanation of why it wouldn't work that way.

That's a good point.

I also don't understand why the black hole's gravity affected them if they were at warp and in subspace.

 

[ThereAre4Lights]

I also don't understand why the black hole's gravity affected them if they were at warp and in subspace.

Voyager- Parallax

The ship couldn't escape a black hole even thpugh it t was travelling at warp