Re: also wrong

I have heard this one a lot, and it’s a fair cop. Just a few of Star Trek‘s other offenses against science include matter teleportation; faster-than-light travel; antimatter engines; deflector screens; artificial gravity; bipedal, two-eyed, two-eared alien life forms; matter replication; time travel; sounds in outer space; phasers…

You get the point. From a purely analytical perspective, Star Trek has probably committed more grievous scientific errors than any other movie or franchise, just from its longevity. The point is valid, but I’ll take it and like it anyway :)

Re: also wrong

The bit at the end with the black hole really annoyed me, but if you’re giving that they can have space-distortion for warp-bubble effect then the space-destortion explosion of the space-destorting matter pushing them past the event horizon isn’t quite as far-fetched. Thinking of it as something other than a simple energy explosion (which would never have passed the event horizon) helps suspend disbelief a tad.

The physics around the black holes is so horribly wrong. There was not a single factual characteristic they got right. In this day and age you cannot get away with that much suspension of disbelief.

I wish they had figured out a better plot device.