From: utzoo!utcsrgv!donald Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: ST2 answer to a query Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.424 Posted: Sun Jun 27 15:13:55 1982 Received: Sun Jun 27 15:32:41 1982 References: watmath.2786 I agree that the genesis effect could perhaps form a planet using the mass of the nebula, but then there are serious defects in the plot arising from this: How the heck did the newly-formed planet get a sun??? The genesis effect must be awesome indeed. One wonders why it is being used for *trivial* things like creating life! A nebula is a rather extended and tenuous mass. The genesis effect would have to "reach out" and draw in all of this mass to collect it to form the planet (and sun?). Obviously the Enterprise would have been caught in all this, as it did not have warp power. Don