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

10. Genesis Goes Poof

Kirk Scotty
Paramount

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.

 
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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.