So what's the problem ? If your point is it didn't take an half hour of screen time well it would be boring and a waste of valuable TV time if they would spend actually an half hour to reach the site in a show episode that last around 45 minutes.

@Knixon said:

How they were 100km from the site to be destroyed, and T'Pol ordered Mayweather to reduce speed to 200kph?

That means it would have taken them HALF AN HOUR to get there.

I thought that slowing down would give Reed more time to use the visual scanners.

Well if this was TNG it would give Picard the oportunity to give one of his eulogies🤣

The point was, supposedly they only had like a minute or so before Vosk was going to use the portal.