XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.movies   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:12:35 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Jon Schild  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Since an actual supernova only destroys its own solar system, and   
   >>> maybe not all of that, Romulus must have been doomed anyway. The   
   >>> only star that could threaten it by going supernova would be its own   
   >>> sun, and once it has exploded all bets are off whether or not the   
   >>> planet is fried.   
   >>   
   >> It's not the Romulan sun going nova, it's a random sun elsewhere, and   
   >> this is a superdupernova; the more planets it eats the bigger it gets,   
   >> and it will eventually eat the entire galaxy.  Yes, Roberto Orci is a   
   >> drooling moron.   
   >   
   >So, its like the grand son of the Blob?   
      
   No, it's more like a loosely inspired version of those chain reactions   
   that cause entire galactic cores to explode.  Obviously we aren't in   
   the galactic core, but by Star Trek standards, that's par for the   
   course.   
      
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