14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

2. Spock's Escape Hatch

Kirk Scotty
Paramount

Nothing about Spock’s physical resurrection makes sense.

The Genesis effect caused the microbes on the funereal torpedo tube to hyper evolve from microscopic organisms to Klingon-choking worms, but in Spock’s case it did… what? Rebooted him as an embryo? A newborn? A mindless infant who somehow had the sense to learn to walk without crawling out of an adult-size funeral robe?

So why did Genesis Control-Alt-Delete Spock instead of mutating him like the microbes?

And just how did this mindless reanimated Spock manage to get out of a tube which can somehow survive an atmospheric re-entry without popping open? Or was there a convenient handle inside for the deceased to operate? If not, it seems like Spock would have been reanimated and just suffocate and/or die of hunger and thirst in this sealed casket.

And speaking of hunger and thirst…

 
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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.