While I can understand Queen Novo concerned with protecting her subjects and Skystar, I have to honestly say that she's just as much at fault as Twilight was.



Twilight was in desperate need of help and solutions to taking down Tempest Shadow and the Storm King and with her friends not being as much help as they should've, she's given into her desperation and all the pressure being put on her since she felt as the only one taking the missions seriously which caused her attempted theft.



Queen Novo is someone I don't trust at all despite putting the safety of her subjects first since she had a bad run-in with the Storm King and Tempest at some point before the movie came to be but she went overboard with her actions against Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 since she's, in my mind, also unintentionally labeled herself as a coward and a weakling who's too scared in her own heart to face down the monsters that made her so hateful and distrusting towards strangers in the first place. And the way she just kicked out Twilight and her friends without fully understanding what happened to Equestria and what's become of her old allies and friends (since it could be hinted somehow) thanks to Tempest, it just makes me hate her all the more and wish to give her a good thrashing, Kill Bill style.



If a deleted scene featuring Twilight and Novo apologizing to each other for their actions in the sincerest way possible and earning each other's forgiveness in the process can be made, them I'll forgive them both and trust Queen Novo (even though I'll still be skeptical of her and it'll take a while for me to fully trust her to begin with).