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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE] 1. It was mentioned on Voyager? I just remember something about a Regula-type starbase where they tried to create an Omega-particle which caused the destruction of subspace in that area (or something like that; never payed attention to the "science" on that show). But I believe they mentioned it early on TNG. [/QUOTE]Protomatter was also mentioned in DS9 "Second Sight" and "By Inferno's Light". Both times, it was used for "helioforming" rather than "terraforming" - that is, to manipulate stars rather than planets. Seemed to work just fine in turning a "dead" star into a sunlike live one, and was supposed to work just fine in turning a sunlike live star into a nova... [QUOTE] 2. As far as I understood it, the reorganisation caused the creation of a new planet, regardless if the material used was from a nebula or a planetoid. As long as there was enough of it, it really didn't matter. [/QUOTE]We don't really know. In the promo video, a pre-existing moon was transformed only on the surface, and very thinly so: the mountain ranges stayed unaltered, for example. And if the torpedo was tuned to do the same to its intended test planet, then it probably did that to some unintended planet in the Regula system when Khan detonated it, rather than turn nebular matter into a planet. [QUOTE] Furthermore, it didn't create any life, did it? It just created an environment that could sustain life. [/QUOTE]Depends. We never heard of Carol or David planting all those ferns in the Genesis Cave. Instead, we were supposed to think that the Genesis effect had created the ferns, as well as the birdlike critters in the cave. On the Genesis Planet, only the giant bugs in Spock's coffin were said to have mutated from pre-existing life. The other life there presumably grew out of nothing, created by Genesis either via some sort of super-rapid evolution, or then instantaneously, without any evolution. Certainly, there wouldn't have been time for life to develop on its own in either case. Barely one generation of each lifeform would have lived before our heroes came. [QUOTE] 3. Obviously, the video was not that highly classified (I guess they screened it at scientific congresses or used it to convince the council to fund the project). The real data about the project however probably wasn't even available to Kirk. [/QUOTE]So why was the promo video part "eyes only" (literally!), if the retina scan didn't give Kirk access to anything more than the pretty pictures? I rather think the whole concept of Genesis was top secret, and the promo video was awaiting the moment Carol could finally make her "proposal" openly. [QUOTE] 4./5. The thing didn't work from the start (they used protomatter; it worked, but it all collapsed after a short time). [/QUOTE]Well, the Genesis Cave experiment seemed to work just fine. We don't know how long before the movie the Phase Two experiment had been started, but it probably was at least a couple of months prior, because the Marcuses wouldn't have begun the search for a Phase Three planet until they knew their device worked. [QUOTE] And it obviously wasn't that efficient as a weapon, either. Not very precise (at least not if your name isn't Emperor Palpatine and your sick hobby is blowing away Rebel planets), and not very useful either. Take a couple of quantum torpedos or a biogenetic weapon instead. [/QUOTE]Well, if you want to eliminate a whole planetful of enemies, a single torpedo sounds like a better weapon than a "couple" of torpedoes, never mind the warhead type. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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