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deskpro2k3 on 12 December 2011
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greenmedic88 said:
rocketpig said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Red Matter, Q, and Spock. Game Over

The difference between the Death Star and red matter is negligible. The end result is pretty much the same.

Except it's a little easier to fly a giant gun with greater than lightspeed propulsion and fire it with one quick blast than drill a hole into the center of a planet for hours and then drop magical black hole creating pixie dust into its core. 

While the red matter worked for me as a plot device (and making its deployment a slow process that the protagonists had a reasonable chance at stopping), in retrospect, it did bring up quite a few "so why didn't they just X?" questions. 

Of all the things they could have done to stop the drill (say, blasting it from orbit with phasers, photon torpedos, flying a shuttle into it, giving Vulcan a phone call and asking "Hey, you guys notice that giant mining ship drilling a hole into your planet? You might want to look into it!") they decided skydiving onto it from orbit was the best option?

In the meantime, no one on Vulcan noticed this giant mysterious mining ship in orbit blasting a hole into their planet? No one noticed any changes in seismic activity? No one on Vulcan did ANYTHING to avert the disaster or noticed anything suspicious? 

In reality, it would have taken a single fighter (or any small flying craft) to knock out the drilling platform, closing the film's major plot point. 

 

Of course, it made for a hell of a kick ass action film anyway and was my favorite ST film since First Contact. 


Pretty sure they explained all this in movie. flying a little ship will result in it being blasted by the enemy, and if they were to miss a shot from afar that would give up their location. the drill lazer also disrupted teleporting and communication.