The whole Genesis planet idea doesn't even stand up to much thought. A device that was designed to be fired at an existing planet and terraform it somehow explodes on a starship in the middle of a nebula and manages to form a planet from scratch. None of it actually makes any sense.
Star Trek 3 pet peeve of mine.
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To be fair it wasn't a very good planet.
Yes and I read every one of these. I think in some different series they had temporal police. Or something like that from the 29th century checking to make sure that we didn't goof it up. Anyway this was a fun thread. Thanks for the replies.
Fascinating to read. Roddenberry was one heck of a passive aggressive; the kind of guy you’d absolutely dread getting such memos or letters from. The way he tries to lure Isaac Asimov into the drama even though he has not a thing to do with Trek is really quite unintentionally hilarious.
Got to say: Everyone who interacted with Leonard Maizlish (“LM”) seems to have despised him (I recall a David Gerrold piece where Gerrold apparently mused that if he pushed Maizlish out a window right that moment, no one would know), but the guy knew Star Trek, or so it seems.
Welll… they were friends, and Asimov had supported him before on arguing with the studio whether V’Ger could be alive or not (I think? — dim memory from the old Sackett Making of TMP book), so unlike some other GR moves it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
It seemed to use the nebula’s raw material to create the planet, since the nebula disappears when the planet is formed. (Where the star came from that Genesis was orbiting, I have no idea.) Of course, the planet forming this way was not how Genesis was supposed to work. They had a great ready-made reason why Genesis became unstable and destroyed itself, and instead they made up that protomatter bullshit excuse to throw David under the bus.
The 29th century time cops are incredibly bad at their job. In every instance we see them, they’ve either screwed up or they were actually the cause of the problems they were supposed to fix.
according to one of the novels, straight under lock and key for eighty years with all data about Genesis wiped or locked up tight, until someone starts using something similar....
ther is a novel where it is revealed that that entity was part of a "bad crowd" that Q and some friends from similar evolved species fell in with in his youth, along with trelane, and was bound there by the Continuum and others. and Galactic Barrier was made to keep the real nasty of the bunch out
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