10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek (2009)

10. Red Matter Matters

Despite fan complaints, the so-called Red Matter is no more preposterous than a lot of other unobtainium substances postulated and employed in various Treks, be it star-killing trilithium (Star Trek Generations) or the anything-muppet Genesis Wave (Star Trek II and III), to name but two examples. If we’re being honest it’s the dumb name that fans bristle at. If it had been called “quantum-gravitic xyrillium” or some other technobabble words pulled out of someone’s aft, no one would have blinked. But calling it “Red Matter”...somehow that was the bridge too far.

Silly name aside, if the Red Matter can form a black hole capable of Hoovering up a supernova, just how is it supposed to be deployed? Some supernovae leave nothing where the star was, and others leave various types of collapsed stars at their centers. Can Spock Prime set it off in the hollow center of where the star had been? How the hell do you drill into a neutron star? If before the star blows up, was he supposed to get it into the star’s core? If not, why did the Narrada have to drill to the center of Vulcan and the Earth to set it off?

Did anyone even think this through?

I think we know the answer to that…