Merrith
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So Picard is only set in the continuity with Romulus destroyed and not Vulcan. Interesting.
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So Picard is only set in the continuity with Romulus destroyed and not Vulcan. Interesting.
There seems to be a lot of terrible shit coming out of the showrunners and main actor's mouths before even a single episode is released.
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Merrith
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Remember that bad Troi episode where she gets kidnapped and altered to appear Romulan because they need her to act as one of the Tal Shiar to help smuggle spies back to the Federation? I swear the actress who played the Romulan captain of that ship has had other guest starring roles on Trek more than once before or since.
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I think Spock’s description was the whole “Romulan Star Empire.” But just checked Memory Alpha and it only mentions Romulus.
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Well with Abrams no longer around to shit on the laws of physics, I doubt a single nova is going to be capable of affecting multiple systems unless Romulus just happened to be part of an abnormally tight star cluster.
She did
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Merrith
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She did
Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour (born 6 November 1947; age 76) is a British actress who appeared in five Star Trek television episodes as four characters across two spin-off series. She filmed her scenes for "First Contact" between Monday 3 December 1990 and Thursday 6 December 1990 as well as Monday 10...memory-alpha.fandom.com
That's which one I specifically remembered her from, the first contact one where Riker was in the hospital.
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Gavinmad
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'Hinder the formation of life in multiple systems on an astronomical time scale' is not the same thing as 'Instantly wipe out multiple star systems inhabited by an advanced FTL capable species'
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Quineloe
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This. Even if the event was powerful enough to wipe out adjacent star systems as well, it still would have to travel at the speed of light, therefore giving literally years to evacuate the other systems to be affected.
You're not much of an "Empire" if losing one system cripples you for good, it is known to anyone who ever played Master of Orion.
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I knew they started retconning and hand waving the science behind the supernova after the fact (cause in reality it's dumb and impossible) but I never heard the extent of what it destroyed. I just looked it up on Memory Alpha and it lists the specific causalities as only that one star system.
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What's really dumb is that STO explanation basically means Spock did not help or save anything. The galaxy wasn't in danger he was only trying to save Romulus and failed.
Which cheapens the entire reboot and Nero's motivations since Spock was specifically trying to save his family instead of everyone else after-the-fact.
Which cheapens the entire reboot and Nero's motivations since Spock was specifically trying to save his family instead of everyone else after-the-fact.
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I think technically it is “Prime” Lore and not “Canon” Lore since it was all made under the Paramount / Bad Robot banner and not CBS so cant technically be canon but just exists in this Paramount Prime universe along with the Kelvin one.
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