The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1. The Genesis Defect
Even taking the movie on its own terms, that the Genesis Planet even exists at the end is beyond absurd. The narrative makes it abundantly clear that the Genesis device is intended to be employed on an existing solid body. Why else would the Reliant be scouring space for a suitable site?
CAROL: Stage Three will involve the process on a planetary scale. It is our intention to introduce the Genesis device into the pre-selected area of a lifeless space body… a moon or other dead form.
Yet, as the story climaxes the Genesis device goes off inside the Reliant which is itself within the Mutara Nebula, and somehow the Genesis wave not only turns the entire nebula’s gas and dust into some different kind of matter (complete with all sorts of plant DNA), but all of this conveniently falls together into a sphere in a matter of minutes. Furthermore, this preposterous planet just happens to form within the “Goldilocks zone” of a star…
Wait…where did that star come from? Was it the one Regula orbits? Or did Genesis manufacture a star, too?
And how does this miracle planet just happen to have exactly the right angular momentum to go into orbit around that wherever-it’s-from sun? And some fans complained that the Red Matter in Star Trek (2009) was dumb...
Play by your own rules, movie.