My idea: a civilization has to have a working knowledge of warp theory to develop transporters. Not necessarily warp drive itself, just the theory behind it.
I remember reading many years ago that if you broke one of the old glass holograms, each piece would have the whole image rather than a tiny portion of it. I hit on the idea that the Heisenberg compensators used a modified warp field to take an n-dimensional holographic image of whatever was being transported. Examining the transportee from outside normal spacetime would bypass the Uncertainty Principle and reduce the cosmically insane amount of data a transporter would need to operate.
I remember reading many years ago that if you broke one of the old glass holograms, each piece would have the whole image rather than a tiny portion of it. I hit on the idea that the Heisenberg compensators used a modified warp field to take an n-dimensional holographic image of whatever was being transported. Examining the transportee from outside normal spacetime would bypass the Uncertainty Principle and reduce the cosmically insane amount of data a transporter would need to operate.
Romulus being destroyed by the supernova was cool. Veridian III being destroyed by its own supernova was much cooler.
The saucer crashed on Veridian III, which is the same planet Soran and Picard were on. They were in orbit of it during the battle, and that was obviously the closest planet when the saucer lost control after the deive section blew.
Picard and Soran were picked up by the Nexus on another part of the planet where the saucer crashed... clearly on the side that the Nexus got to before the shockwave came.
You replied to my comment before I finished it. If the saucer section crashed on the same planet as Soren's launch platform, the two sites would have been been just a few thousand kilometers or miles apart. It was daylight during the crash scene and also during the fight with Soren at his launch pad, so they both must have been on the starward side of whatever planets they were on.
The shockwave or blast from the Viridian star would hit the substellar point on the surface of Veridian III first. So possibly the saucer section crashed near the substellar point of Veridian III and Soren's launch pad was near the terminator, the local time during the fight being soon after sunrise or soon before sunset. And the Nexus Ribbon could have come from a difrection close to 90 degrees from the direction to the Veridian star.
But since the blast from the Veridian star should have included a lot of electromagnetic radiation travelling at the speed of light, and since the Nexus Ribbon should have been travelling at multiples of the speed of light, there would have been an extremely short interval between the arrival of the shockwave from the Veridian star one spot on Veridian III and the arrriveal of the Nexus Ribbon.on another spot on Veridian III.
So Soren's plan was really cutting it fine.
It would be much more plausibe if the saucer section crashed on another planet instead of Veridian III.
Or the simpler, and more likely, explanation is that the saucer crashed on Veridian III since the battle took place in orbit of that world.
Looking at you, Star Wars...
While funny which planet in SW has really distinct and separate biomes?
Soren's plan was really illogical and a huge plot hole.
How did Kirk get into the Nexus? By means of a Starship. Guinain? Starship. Soren the first time? You guessed it, a starship.
Hey Soren, here's a better plan. Instead of this elaborate scheme involving the Duras sisters and a stolen wmd that will destroy a star, how about you simply buy, rent, or steal a starship/shuttle and, oh I don't know, FLY INTO THE NEXUS! Much simpler and likely a better chance of success.
They all seem to be a single biome.
Our records show that every ship which has approached the ribbon has either been destroyed or severely damaged.
And? So? Would that matter to Soren?
Like I said, the movie presents several people who entered the Nexus. Yes, the Enterprise-B was damaged, but Kirk made it into the Nexus. Guinian and Soren's ship may have likewise gotten damaged, but it was still enough for Guinian's echo to still be in the Nexus. Soren experienced enough bliss while in the Nexus that he resented being pulled from it and spent the rest of his life trying to get back inside.
Take a shuttle or ship and fly into the Nexus. Who cares if it's damaged or destroyed in the process. Not like Soren planned to leave.
I guess you have to hit a sweet spot to really reach the nexus and this nirvana-thing. But to get there you have to survive the raging storm surrounding it and that storm seems to hit everything artificial really hard. In a fragile starship (even Ent-B was torn up like cardboard) it is not guaranteed that you arrive where you need to be. Yes, Soran got there once... but he and the other el-aurians where phasing in and out, so they weren't in the sweet spot (yet) and it isn't clear if the other el-aurians reached the nexus for good. Kirk got lucky.
Why? What evidence is there that the majority of the victims/casualties of Nexus encounters are not living in the Nexus the way Soren wanted to?
Yes m the ships were destroyed. We're bodies recovered? Does the Nexus potentially separate the consciousness from the body?
They beamed Soren and Guinan from an exploding ship, not the Nexus itself, and they're 67% of the characters who we know went to the Nexus during the incident. It doesn't seem like good odds.
They describe themselves being ripped away from the Nexus so while they were on the transport ship they were able to start to phase into their dream reality. But none of this happens to anyone on the B, it's just a big space storm to them so it would seem flying into the ribbon might not actually work. Kirk was probably sucked into the ribbon when the hull was breached so that's how he ended up there but no one on the B was in a state of flux like the El-Aurians.
Soran's plan seems overly complicated & convoluted just to achieve his end goal of entering the Nexus.
The difference of the Nexus running you over vs you running into the path of the Nexus intentionally seems like a minor detail for gaining entry into it.
There's got to be a easier way to get in there.
How about having the person get into a standard Photon Torpedo Casing & have a ship fire the torpedo into the path of the Nexus.
Or have the person get into a EV suit and drop them into the path of the Nexus.
Those seem like MUCH easier solutions to gain entry vs all the extra work that Soran did to enter.
This way you don't risk your vessel at all since you can place the person into the path of the Nexus at great distances due to its predictable travel pattern.
The only difference is that most people won't believe your crazy stories about the Nexus & think you're crazy for even wanting to attempt entry into the moving phenomena.
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