(December 26, 2022 at 10:19 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: In fairness to Kirk, if there is a single iota of science in science fiction, then he would know there is not way ceti alpha 6 could explode or have its shock somehow transmit through space to shift the orbit of ceti alpha 5. So Khan and his wife would still be doing fine on a garden planet and not wearing bangs and a massive cleavage nursing a grievance.
The science of Star Trek II:
Starships can hide in a nebula, because they're opaque.
With "neutrino flux" a favorite technobabble trope a small asteroid can block the neutrino emissions of the Enterprise's impulse engines.
Reliant never bounced the current configuration of the planets at Ceti Alpha against Kirk's original survey.
Making a planet and its sun from a nebula takes a lot of kinetic energy, but the batteries in the Genesis device never run down.