Nanoo, nanoo.

[flusterbunny]

You know, if you opened a black hole near Saturn, it would destroy the whole solar system immediately.

Just sayin'.

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[autobotsrollout]

Watch it again - they don't do that.

The Enterprise warps into the solar system at Saturn, transwarp teleports Spock and Kirk to the Romulan ship near Earth, then Spock flies away in Old Spock's ship and warps to Someplace Else, the Romulan ship follows, and finally the Enterprise warps there last.

[flusterbunny]

Ah. Perhaps I got lost toward the end. My explanation was just going to be "what the fuck is red matter?"

[lithera]

Yeah. It is action packed but I think he's totally right. They end up warping somewhere else.

[leonardpart6]

Also, black holes aren't time machines.

[flusterbunny]

How does time travel work now in Trekland? Shatner can bring whales to his future, but Spock can't go back without branching a new timeline?

[leonardpart6]

I believe Trek time travel meant no Marty McFly alternate timelines, or at least a "self-correcting" timeline - there's a terrific DS9 two-parter where they think they changed time, only to realize they'd been part of the past all along - and the branching thing was made up for this movie just so they wouldn't have to take continuity notes.

For a moment, when they talked about alternate universes, I was hoping they would all start growing goatees.

[paradisacorbasi]

It depends on the method used.

The whale trip involved slingshotting around the sun. The Joan Collins thing involved a built time portal.

Black holes are a different thing altogther by comparison to the other ways Trek crews have timetraveled.

[littledrow]

What autobotsrollout said, but to add: Why are we trying to look for facts from a science fiction movie again? And if that's the case, then Transformers are TOTALLY improbable, as is light speed and mutancy/genetic advancement wouldn't work the way they suggest in the comics/movies. But if it's a good movie and they make the impossible SEEM possible or at least acceptable, nitpicking is just that.

;)

[flusterbunny]

Have you ever known nerds to not be anal about such things?

Star Trek has always kinda made an effort to be smart-like. Transformers is directed by Michael Bay.

But I liked Star Trek. It was fun and thank you Karl Urban.

[littledrow]

OK you have a point about the nerds. LOL This year's DragonCon ought to be interesting.

And oh god! Karl Urban was perfect!