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Was the drill necessary? (spoilers)

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I mean, it's a black hole for feck's sake.

You could drop the red matter on the surface and it'll still rip a planet apart...
 
I wonder that too. But, I think they did that so you had an independent source ignite it and the mass of the planet had to feed it to make it complete. Something along those lines. If you had to shoot it yourself you're probably too close.
 
Let's say that it works faster with the drill. Minutes instead of hours. That type of thing.

The real answer, of course is that it's just cooler ;)
 
That or it had something to do with sucking the planet inside out rather than just sucking it apart, make the people on the surface suffer more... I mean he is one sick fuck after all.

*shrug*

Plus the whole dramatic tension and action-scene setup. Who knows. Once I actually get some red matter to play with I'll let you know.
 
That or it had something to do with sucking the planet inside out rather than just sucking it apart, make the people on the surface suffer more... I mean he is one sick fuck after all.

*shrug*

Plus the whole dramatic tension and action-scene setup. Who knows. Once I actually get some red matter to play with I'll let you know.

Oh? Can you order that from one of your tool catalogs?
 
well, obviously if he'd just fired red matter at it, Vulcan would have just travelled back a hundred years-odd in time. only injecting it into the planet destroys it.
 
well, obviously if he'd just fired red matter at it, Vulcan would have just travelled back a hundred years-odd in time. only injecting it into the planet destroys it.
By that logic, Spock's plan to fire red matter at the supernova would have sent it back in time. That doesn't seem like a very bright idea.
 
well, obviously if he'd just fired red matter at it, Vulcan would have just travelled back a hundred years-odd in time. only injecting it into the planet destroys it.


I think the device he launched at the nova front had something to do with "igniting" the redmatter along with the device that Nero launched.

My take, as I said above is he's a sick fuck and he just wanted to prolong the agony of the people on the planet.
 
Red Matter probably needs to reach a certain temperature before it ignites. Like that at the core of a planet, a supernova, or an exploding ship.
 
That or it had something to do with sucking the planet inside out rather than just sucking it apart, make the people on the surface suffer more... I mean he is one sick fuck after all.

*shrug*


Nah.... he was only pained and misunderstood. Poor puppy.
 
Well, it was a mining ship, so it makes sense

Actually that's one thing I wish the movie explained better. Obviously if you read Countdown you know the history of the Narada, but the movie itself was still WAY too vague about the ship and crew.

The audience isn't supposed to wonder at all why this group of Romulan miners is flying around in a huge, scary-ass spaceship that can wipe out a fleet of Starships?!? :wtf:
 
Don't forget the Drilling rig, blocked all communications, and disrupted all planetary defenses. That and its cooler seeing the planet impload, rather than explode, like Romulus did.
 
The audience isn't supposed to wonder at all why this group of Romulan miners is flying around in a huge, scary-ass spaceship that can wipe out a fleet of Starships?!? :wtf:
I just figured the fact that is was from the future is why it was so powerful...it might have been fairly non-threatening to say, the enterprise-e.
 
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The drill might not have been necessary, but it sure was fun. That red shirt flying right into the energy beam; I loved it. :D
 
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