Hussar
Legend
After a certain point, I think that the evacuation of Romulus just has to go in the "suspension of disbelief" file. There are too many unknowns, and, frankly, it wasn't written by scientists, so, it's never going to be very believable once you start drilling down.
If we take the following as given:
1. At some point, more than 14 years ago, Romulus' sun was discovered to be going to go nova and the Federation stepped up to help.
2. For some time, led by Picard, the Federation did help. And this time wasn't a terribly short time either. We see the colony on Vashti 14 years ago and it's not new. They had time to grow fresh fruit after all. They looked pretty settled in in the flashback.
3. 14 years ago, the synthetics rebel and this starts the chain of events that lead the Federation to abandoning the Romulan relief effort. Why is still somewhat unknown - did the destruction of the fleet yards mean that the relief was no longer possible?
4. Picard resigns because of this, leaving the Romulans to their fate. Since he was the face of the Federation during the relief efforts, there are some Romulans who blame him for what the Federation did.
Did I miss any details? To me, this is the important stuff.
If we take the following as given:
1. At some point, more than 14 years ago, Romulus' sun was discovered to be going to go nova and the Federation stepped up to help.
2. For some time, led by Picard, the Federation did help. And this time wasn't a terribly short time either. We see the colony on Vashti 14 years ago and it's not new. They had time to grow fresh fruit after all. They looked pretty settled in in the flashback.
3. 14 years ago, the synthetics rebel and this starts the chain of events that lead the Federation to abandoning the Romulan relief effort. Why is still somewhat unknown - did the destruction of the fleet yards mean that the relief was no longer possible?
4. Picard resigns because of this, leaving the Romulans to their fate. Since he was the face of the Federation during the relief efforts, there are some Romulans who blame him for what the Federation did.
Did I miss any details? To me, this is the important stuff.