What happened after the Genesis Planet finally tore itself apart?

[Anwar]

Well, it had to orbit a star otherwise it would be a Rogue Planet just tumbling through space.

 

[Uxi]

I always thought Genesis would make a nice "surprise!" weapon against another Borg attack.

 

[Anwar]

Unless they just tractor beam the torpedo to stop it, or they move out of the way, or any number of things to dodge a weapon.

 

[Uxi]

I'd probably set it to blow when the tractor beam grabs it.

 

[Anwar]

What would happen if the Borg just used point-defense to shoot it down before impact? If it exploded then and there, the blast effect would take out all the Starfleet ships in the vicinity along with the Borg.

 

[Uxi]

If it wasn't set to intercept, I would think the Borg instinct would be to try to grab and assimilate. The Genesis effect apparently was easily detectable by Starfleet sensors, after all, and they would have to think it was interesting. A Genesis Mine would probably be more effective than a Genesis Torpedo.

Anyone who can't warp away has a choice between assimilation or getting regenerated in a protomatter matrix.

 

[Timo]

And I'd think it would be possible to launch a saturation attack that would surround the Cube with Genesis waves, launched from beyond its range of defenses (or sphere of interest), and would catch it coming and going even if it tried to go to warp. If you can build one Genesis device, you could build, oh, a million, and launch them all to entrap the Cube.

Genesis appears to be larger than the planetoid

...Although it's a bit difficult to tell. Our two good glimpses of the horizon are the sunset over the glacier, which features a rugged horizon not unlike the moonscape below the Reliant in the previous movie, and the final meltdown after Kruge's plunge, with a similar "scale model" feel. Only the fiery death of the Enterprise conveys somewhat greater scale, and even that horizon is represented by a jagged mountain range.

As for gravity, well, it was "in flux".

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Anwar]

The Genesis Torpedo isn't even THAT great a weapon in Trek, we already had the next level shown: The Trilithium Torpedo.

Forget Planet-killer, that's a System-Killer!

 

[Timo]

Then again, killing the star renders the system worthless; hitting the homeworld of your enemy with Genesis renders it even more worthwhile for you, because you can replace the enemy's bitter-tasting crops with your own, sweeter ones!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Anwar]

The continued usage of Genesis could lead to some nightmarish possibilities though: The Borg, or the Dominion or any other enemy who is more advanced than the Federation could just develop their own better versions OR they could find out some way of canceling out the Genesis Effect when it first begins.

And before anyone says "They can't cancel out the Genesis Wave!" or whatever, since the film-makers never bothered explaining how Genesis works beyond "It just does!", that means no one would ever have to explain how it could be neutralized beyond "They can neutralize it now!"

 

[Uxi]

That's contingent on the Borg being able to analyze it from a distance. Used as I propose, the only Borg that get a chance are those that get wiped out by the Genesis wave, presumably after trying to tractor and assimilate it. You'd have to change up tactics now and then but the collective would get the hint that seeing the Genesis Effect means they're about to get disconnected from the collective in a second and maybe they begin to flee it.

 

[Anwar]

Or, they eject an escape ship with the data of what happened to the Cube and transwarp back to the Collective with the data.

Or they just attack a Fed base that has a Genesis device and take it.

After all, Khan did the latter.