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Subject: Re: re: destruct revisited - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:51:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!friedman    Aug 16 08:51:00 1984

> Hmmm, something else just occurred to me. If the Genesis-created planet
> aged and self-destructed because of the use of protomatter, why didn't
> the Genesis-created sun?

Well, it did, if you believe the novelization.  In that version, the planet
spiraled in and dropped into the sun, and afterward (if I remember it
correctly), the Genesis sun novaed, producing something like the original
nebula.  The main problem I see with this is that Kirk and Co. could not
have observed it; it would have taken at least a good fraction of a year
(a Genesis-planet year, but even so, much more time than they were around).

The second time I watched the movie, I was watching the planet carefully
as they escaped aboard the Bird of Prey, with jets of lava spewing out
behind them.  And I'm not so sure you can conclude from those lava jets
that the planet actually exploded.  Perhaps it was merely shooting out
jets of lava (compare the height of the sulphur-lava known to be ejected
by Jupiter's satellite Io).