Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.14 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: re: destruct revisited - (nf) Message-ID: <24900059@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900059 Posted: Thu Aug 16 09:51:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 01:48:18 EDT References: <3323@decwrl.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:decwrl:-332300:uiucdcs:24900059:000:1006 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Aug 16 08:51:00 1984 #R:decwrl:-332300:uiucdcs:24900059:000:1006 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).