14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
10. Genesis Goes Poof
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Genesis is truly an anything muppet: it does everything the story requires of it no matter how absurd.
Case in point: it conveniently blows itself to smithereens.
Exploding of its own volition is just as dumb as the idea that Ceti Alpha VI blew itself to bits in The Wrath of Khan. The amount of energy required to exceed the gravitational binding energy of an Earth mass planet and blow the body into pieces that fly apart is literally astronomical; we’re talking 200 nonillion joules. That’s 200 followed by thirty zeroes, folks…as much energy as the Sun emits in an entire week (source).
Anything the size of a person that can transform an entire nebula into a planet that can blow itself apart with that sort of stellar energy output sure as hell must be useful for SOMETHING. Kruge was right on that point.