Miri's Planet?

[Nerys Myk]

I try and drop "E Pleb neesta" and "bonk bonk on the head" into conversation when ever I can.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I've been known to say "bonk bonk on the heads, bad employees" from time to time. )

 

[Winterwind]

About the EXACT duplicate of Earth...
It can't be a coincidence, some strange parallel development of Class M planets or whatever. Gotta be by design.

And I suppose it's possible.
Later on, we do see the Genesis Device that can literally make a planet. And that's within Federation capabilities.

What other civilizations might go beyond Genesis Device capabilities to not only make a planet, but make one according to specifications (ie another Earth)?

If you can accept the Genesis Device can make a planet, how hard is it to accept Genesis making a planet according to design? Would it be that much harder, especially for unknown advanced alien tech? What the hell, right?

Miri's Planet has gotta be some weird alien experiment at custom-making a planet. It's too precise.

Or interdimensional parallel quantum mirror reality universe works, too.

Well, we know the Magratheans built at least two Earths. Why not a few more? After all, it was a pretty complex equation they were running. I'm sure they had a few back-ups scattered around the cosmos.

 

[Timo]

Sure Genesis was intended to transform an existing planet, but didn't it end up making one in (or using) the Mutara Nebula?

It's equally possible that Genesis transformed a preexisting planet, perhaps the Regula rock seen earlier in the movie. After all, the Mutara Nebula was well within the Regula star system, or within impulse range as the movie puts it. And the resulting planet is seen to be right next to a star, which must be the Regula system's star because the action in the movie never moved sufficiently far away for it not to be that star...

It can't be a coincidence, some strange parallel development of Class M planets or whatever. Gotta be by design.

Or then a natural phenomenon that duplicates planets.

We've seen duplications in Trek before: two Kirks, two Rikers, even a fistful of Datas in "We'll Always Have Paris". We have also seen multiple different versions of Earth in different timelines. Perhaps a timerift swallowed Earth and spat it back out in duplicate or triplicate, essentially allowing multiple timelines to exist in the same universe, merely in different locations?

That mankind ran into the second Earth after just two centuries of trying is probably sufficient statistical evidence that there are more than just two Earths in the Milky Way. Or then that is evidence that the duplication is by design rather than by happenstance. In which case one is tempted to think that Earth was duplicated solely for the purpose of playing games with Kirk, and the copy perhaps erased soon thereafter, by somebody more like the Q than the Magratheans.

Timo Saloniemi