Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

So I personally saw no plothole there.

The stuff was apparently easy to "ignite." When Quinto was flying around with the stuff the ship's computer warned him that if he was hit by Nero's ship shooting at him that it would happened (and Nero's crew warned him of the same thing). So definitely much easier ways to create this black hole than drilling to the center of the planet to do so.