Talk:Mutara Nebula

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[edit] An Interesting Debate Topic

Is the Mutara Nebula a Planetary Nebula or an Emission Nebula? I say it is a Planetary Nebula because it served as the foundation (for want of a better term) of the Genesis Planet. What say you?

Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fressange Science Officer USS Kaguya

• If the Mutara nebula is one of these two types of nebula, I'd say that it's almost certainly an emission nebula. A planetary nebula is so called only because of its appearance - planetary nebulae have almost nothing in common with planets, they only resemble large planets. An emission nebula tends to be distinctly red in colour and most importantly, emission nebulae are composed of highly ionised gases, much like the Mutara nebula. Based on how the Genesis Device is supposed to work, a planet would have been made out of either type of nebula as the Genesis matrix reorganises matter to suit the matrix.--Scimitar 00:43, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An entire nebula consumed?

Do people have any idea how big a nebula is? The creation of a star does not consume anywhere near an entire nebula, and surely the creation of the Genesis planet would do nothing more than coalesce a new (programmed) planet. Of course the whole nebula would not have been consumed.202.168.104.66 07:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Complain to the writers of Star Trek, not us. They are the ones who depicted an entire nebula being consumed. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 07:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)