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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Which makes one wonder. Presumably, the asteroid was there from the beginning, and apparently, it was orbiting a star which illuminated the scene. The two ships, traveling at impulse speed, then managed to reach a nebula. Later, a life-bearing planet was discovered circling a star, somewhere within the range of the Genesis blast from the nebula. Now, the simplest setup to me would be one where there was a single star with at least two pre-existing solid bodies, the asteroid and the planet, and a pre-existing nebula that extended practically into this system. Since the Regula scenes looked darker than the Genesis-planet ones, I'd say Regula was farther out from the star - and from the light angles, I would say Mutara was outer still. What are the max/min distances we could consider here? Kirk and Khan could have traversed something like a couple of light-hours at impulse from Regula to Mutara - there was major snippage in that chase scene anyway, so why not something like 5-10 hours? Or then there was very little snippage and the nebula was within a lighthour, practically enveloping the star system. Then Khan would trigger Genesis, and Kirk would go to warp. A rear view (but not necessarily an exact 180--degrees-from-forward one) would show the Genesis effect enveloping the nearby star system at lightspeed or faster, and transforming the pre-existing planet there, while leaving the pre-existing star unaltered. Kirk would later return to the system, not to the exact site of Khan's demise, and would find this life-bearing planet there where originally only a lifeless one had existed. The Regula asteroid would also bear life at this point, most probably - unless it had shattered under the blast. This sounds to me more acceptable than the idea that the Genesis wave created the planet at a suitable distance from a pre-existing star, or even created the star as well. The effects shots of the planet "forming" could just as easily be interpreted as a pre-existing planet "reforming". Of course, the easiest solution of them all is to say that the Regula asteroid *was* the Genesis planet. It was spherical to begin with, and had plenty of gravity (to keep the ships and the station in orbit and the waterfall falling, even if the people walked with the help of grav-plates under the dirt floor). And one would think the Genesis torp would have been preprogrammed by the Marcuses to do what it did - it's not appealing to think that it created a planet through *malfunction*! Surely the Marcuses would have used Regula once more for their experiment, this time shooting for the surface instead for the caves, unless there was something to prevent this. And we weren't told of any such hindrance. So presumably the Genesis torp was crosshaired to the 'roid all the time. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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