What was the fate of the Genesis planet?
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This should answer some of your questions: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Genesis_Planet
I wish someone could do a animated Trek series along the lines of Star Wars Clone Wars to fill in the blanks on stories like this, maybe a anthology series.
I wish someone could do a animated Trek series along the lines of Star Wars Clone Wars to fill in the blanks on stories like this, maybe a anthology series.
It produced... a tree.
Yes, indeed, it was "The Undiscovered Khan Tree".
Yes, indeed, it was "The Undiscovered Khan Tree".
The whole Genesis blowing up portion of TSFS is bullshit. Instable core, what the hell is that supposed to mean? Why would a planet blow up? Makes no sense to me.
According to the Wiki Trek, Saavik mentioned that it could eventually reform a stable world. The Wiki states that there wasn't enough material in the nebula to create both a stable star and planets.
How does the writer of the Wiki Trek article know there's not enough material in the Mutara Nebula to form both a stable star and planets? As presented, Mutara has an insanely greater density than most nebula. It's most likely an improperly named protoplanetary disk surrounding a T-Tauri star. Those are young, active and variable stars and easily explains the bright flashing light we see while Enterprise and Reliant stalk one another, notably in the scene when they nearly collide head-on.
Genesis didn't create a solar system. It accelerated the development of one already forming.
Genesis didn't create a solar system. It accelerated the development of one already forming.
I always thought that the Genesis planet would have been an interesting place for the TNG crew to revisit. It would have been the perfect setting for the type of bizarre stories that Brannon Braga wrote for the series.
It's a good thing that Spock's body didn't become unstable and blow up considering that it had been regenerated by the Genesis effect. Bones would have had a hell of a mess to clean up.
It's a good thing that Spock's body didn't become unstable and blow up considering that it had been regenerated by the Genesis effect. Bones would have had a hell of a mess to clean up.
Hey, about if Khan's memories and mind fused with the dark matter and resulting re-build of the star system, and created a omnipresant space disturbance of his mind that can transverse the universe? Still bent upon revenge upon Kirk, but it can't find Kirk since he';s in the Nexus. But then Khan finds him, and Kirk uses his new found Nexus powers, and we have a cosmic battle of nerdly wanking porportions?
Something like this:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/04/07/funny-pictures-the-final-battle-for-our-souls-begins/
The idea that the Genesis planet would have formed out of nebulous gases is too nebulous to my tastes. The device was not designed to do that, and it was emphasized that the device was not flexible, nor was Khan an expert in operating it, nor did he have any motivation for manipulating it.
Rather, the Genesis planet ought to be some planet from the star system within which all the action took place (at impulse speeds, so both Regula and the Mutara Nebula are within the same star system). If Genesis can turn the top layer of some dead planet into fertile soil, it's not that hard to believe that it would change some deeper layers as well, and keep on changing them for quite some time. Energies would be on the move, and might well be destructively released at some point.
That said, we don't know if the planet literally exploded, or merely had an energetic hiccup that spewed some lava to the orbit, as we see in the final shot of that planet in ST3. For all we know, the Genesis wave as of 2378 is still going back and forth inside some grotesquely disformed planetoid that occasionally resembles a dragon made of putty and leaves, occasionally a dozen pubs piled inside each other, and occasionally a sperm whale and three petunias, an unstable combination if there ever was one.
Timo Saloniemi
Rather, the Genesis planet ought to be some planet from the star system within which all the action took place (at impulse speeds, so both Regula and the Mutara Nebula are within the same star system). If Genesis can turn the top layer of some dead planet into fertile soil, it's not that hard to believe that it would change some deeper layers as well, and keep on changing them for quite some time. Energies would be on the move, and might well be destructively released at some point.
That said, we don't know if the planet literally exploded, or merely had an energetic hiccup that spewed some lava to the orbit, as we see in the final shot of that planet in ST3. For all we know, the Genesis wave as of 2378 is still going back and forth inside some grotesquely disformed planetoid that occasionally resembles a dragon made of putty and leaves, occasionally a dozen pubs piled inside each other, and occasionally a sperm whale and three petunias, an unstable combination if there ever was one.
Timo Saloniemi
Old ideal that I heard at a con (CONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!) back in the day:
Genesis went off inside a starship, who knows what sort of crap got into the planetary make up of the Genesis planet. Perhaps Protomatter reacting with Antimatter caused the planetary spaz out we saw.
Now, me, personally: If I think about it more than 2 minutes, I tend to go WTF WERE THEY SMOKING WHEN THEY WROTE THAT SCENE!?
Genesis went off inside a starship, who knows what sort of crap got into the planetary make up of the Genesis planet. Perhaps Protomatter reacting with Antimatter caused the planetary spaz out we saw.
Now, me, personally: If I think about it more than 2 minutes, I tend to go WTF WERE THEY SMOKING WHEN THEY WROTE THAT SCENE!?
I wonder if the planet's destruction in STIII was deliberately left ambiguous and up to the imagination so that they could revisit it in a future script were it necessary.
I don't get it, If you saw the film David tells Saavik that he used an unstable element in the Genesis matrix. The planet destroying itself was part of that result. The real question should have been WHY didn't Spock blow up?!
The real question should have been WHY didn't Spock blow up?!
Inflatable Party Spocks were very popular licensing tie-ins.
I don't get it, If you saw the film David tells Saavik that he used an unstable element in the Genesis matrix. The planet destroying itself was part of that result. The real question should have been WHY didn't Spock blow up?!
Plot convience.
Oh no, not again.
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