12-17-2022, 06:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2022, 06:58 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
It's not pieces of the Genesis device, it's the wave the device generates as it goes off. In the Marcus simulation, the device detonates on the surface of a moon and the explosion sends a wave of energy sweeping around the moon that reconfigures its surface, creating new topography, bodies of water and an atmosphere. Mass cannot be created or destroyed, so all of that has to be made from whatever is already there. We have no idea if they even knew what it would do if set off out in the middle of nothing but a gas/dust cloud. But watch the explosion scene again, and you'll see that the multicolored gas surrounding Reliant disappears as the ship explodes, and a series of concentric circles extend out and create a visible "hole" in the gas, and then we see on the Enerprise's bridge screen a bright spot drawing things inward toward it. So the only thing it actually "blew up" was the Reliant, and everything else the wave managed to reach it "sucked in."
I would guess that the positioning of the Genesis Planet near a star that could support life on it was just sheer dumb luck. If you fired the thing off on Pluto, it wouldn't suddenly make Pluto's location relative to the sun life-friendly.
I would guess that the positioning of the Genesis Planet near a star that could support life on it was just sheer dumb luck. If you fired the thing off on Pluto, it wouldn't suddenly make Pluto's location relative to the sun life-friendly.