"Tell the internets about how gas, er, high warp is destroying the planet, I mean, galaxy!"
Are we still spoiler cutting for the reboot movie?
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niqaeli and I went to see ST:Reboot for the, uh, seventh time. In addition to vid-related "covered in fangirls!" moments and our usual assorted fanwanks regarding Daddy's wink and sex on the bridge and how the f-bomb was clearly used, we, uh, developed a new theory.
Right so supernovae do not expand to engulf the entire galaxy. They do not. Either the supernova was Romulus's star, or it was not a supernova.
Had this idea, see. In late series TNG, they discover that abuse of high warp is destroying the fabric of space-time. Clearly the event that destroyed Romulus was related--the fabric of space-time coming apart at the seams. That would totally destroy the galaxy or at least, you know, the part of it they were warping across all the time.
And this is the part where Nero's accusations and claims start to make a smidgeon more sense. You know how Nero felt that the destruction of the Federation would ensure Romulus would be safe? Well, here's the thing. The Federation is the hummer-driving high warp nation of the galaxy. The Federation expanded the bounds of where any individual might wander, I think.
Pre-Federation, most systems were sort of insular. Vulcan was having a border dispute with Andoria, which was like, right next door. Even the nations that were empires with multiple systems couldn't have been spread out that far because the nature of empires, the centralization of government, means limits on how much control can be exerted the farther from homeworld you venture. I think that the reason in Prime no one from the Federation saw Romulans until partway through TOS was that Romulans by and large didn't wander outside their local space. I don't think the Cardassian empire was that large, Bajor was their next door neighbor, they had a longstanding rivalry about whose culture was oldest, who figured out warp first. Bajor's a short hop from Cardassia via subspace winds.
So you had all these local spaces, all these planets only bothering with the one or two systems nearby, and then here come the humans pushing the limits of warp, wanting to go faster, see more, explore everything, get involved with everyone. And then they put the Federation together, and the Federation is decentralized. The Federation is huge compared to the empires that came before, because the Federation does not try to impose control from a central homeworld on all its colonies. Every planet is a singular, self-governing nation-state, so the network of them can extend so much farther. And then the problem with that is, aside from the inherent increased warp travel to get from end to end of the Federation, other governments in the galaxy feel compelled to increase their territory and influence to compete.
Federation: promoter of high warp, destroyer of space-time fabric. No wonder Nero's pissed off.
Makes total sense! I swear.
niqaeli and I went to see ST:Reboot for the, uh, seventh time. In addition to vid-related "covered in fangirls!" moments and our usual assorted fanwanks regarding Daddy's wink and sex on the bridge and how the f-bomb was clearly used, we, uh, developed a new theory.Right so supernovae do not expand to engulf the entire galaxy. They do not. Either the supernova was Romulus's star, or it was not a supernova.
Had this idea, see. In late series TNG, they discover that abuse of high warp is destroying the fabric of space-time. Clearly the event that destroyed Romulus was related--the fabric of space-time coming apart at the seams. That would totally destroy the galaxy or at least, you know, the part of it they were warping across all the time.
And this is the part where Nero's accusations and claims start to make a smidgeon more sense. You know how Nero felt that the destruction of the Federation would ensure Romulus would be safe? Well, here's the thing. The Federation is the hummer-driving high warp nation of the galaxy. The Federation expanded the bounds of where any individual might wander, I think.
Pre-Federation, most systems were sort of insular. Vulcan was having a border dispute with Andoria, which was like, right next door. Even the nations that were empires with multiple systems couldn't have been spread out that far because the nature of empires, the centralization of government, means limits on how much control can be exerted the farther from homeworld you venture. I think that the reason in Prime no one from the Federation saw Romulans until partway through TOS was that Romulans by and large didn't wander outside their local space. I don't think the Cardassian empire was that large, Bajor was their next door neighbor, they had a longstanding rivalry about whose culture was oldest, who figured out warp first. Bajor's a short hop from Cardassia via subspace winds.
So you had all these local spaces, all these planets only bothering with the one or two systems nearby, and then here come the humans pushing the limits of warp, wanting to go faster, see more, explore everything, get involved with everyone. And then they put the Federation together, and the Federation is decentralized. The Federation is huge compared to the empires that came before, because the Federation does not try to impose control from a central homeworld on all its colonies. Every planet is a singular, self-governing nation-state, so the network of them can extend so much farther. And then the problem with that is, aside from the inherent increased warp travel to get from end to end of the Federation, other governments in the galaxy feel compelled to increase their territory and influence to compete.
Federation: promoter of high warp, destroyer of space-time fabric. No wonder Nero's pissed off.
Makes total sense! I swear.
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