Quote:I don't know where you get the notion that Carol "had the Federation by the short hairs." Brilliant scientists who come up with the ideas for big projects never get to control everything that happens in them. J. Robert Oppenheimer didn't get to dictate when and where the atom bomb would be tested or used. And he didn't know every detail of every component that went into building it. Once other people get involved in a project, even if the person who conceived it is still in charge, parts of that project get delegated and so does the detailed knowledge of those parts.
I don't know why you believe Carol Marcus, a 23rd century scientist who was independent of any organization AND who made a proposal to the Federation, is being compared to Oppenheimer, a 20th century physicist who was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, working for the U.S.
Quote:Brilliant scientists who come up with the ideas for big projects never get to control everything that happens to them.
What do you mean by this statement? Are you stating that somehow David Marcus, with help from the Federation, smoozed Carol Marcus out of the project and took Genesis away so he could somehow acquire protomatter and incorporate it into Genesis without her knowledge? Don't forget by the time the Genesis probe is developed, Carol Marcus has achieved the funding she needed and no doubt would have had to make an accounting to the Federation. How then did David get the Federation to approve the protomatter without Carol's knowledge?
Quote:The Federation approved Carol's project, funded it, supplied the Starfleet resources it needed. They could pull the rug out from under her any time the project didn't go exactly as as she predicted it would. If the test planet turned out to have had "so much as a microbe" on it, some suit in the Federation who didn't vote to approve the project in the first place could raise the argument that life had not really been created from lifelessness and throw the whole thing into dispute. And in all likelihood, there is someone with an alternative proposal for terraforming just waiting in the wings for Genesis to not live up to its promises.
Yet she was the one who said, "There can't be so much as a microbe or the show's off". I don't see anything in this particular statement that indicates Carol Marcus was worried that the Federation could pull the rug out from under her any time the project didn't go as she predicted it would. In fact, it seems that she had the upper hand and would pull Genesis away from the Federation if she didn't get what she wanted.
Aside from that, since Genesis was a failure, there's nothing indicating that Carol couldn't repurpose it into some kind of weapon and sell it to the highest bidder. She already has proof that it is a weapon of destruction.
Quote:Carol tried to contact Kirk because Chekov told her that Reliant was coming for Genesis on Kirk's orders.
I know. This is what I said:
""I know it happened simply to further the story. So be it.""
Quote:Was Carol supposed to call someone else to find out whether Kirk actually gave those orders to Chekov? Who do you think that should have been?
Reliant was provided to Carol Marcus at her discretion. That's a very large perk for someone who has no control over her own project. Someone at the Federation had to give that authority to someone at Starfleet. Kirk didn't authorize Reliant for use by the scientists.
Here are questions for you. How exactly did negotiations take place with Carol Marcus if she spoke with no one at the Federation? Would they really just watch her presentation and throw money at her for her project?
Quote:And when Uhura told Kirk that contact with Regula was being jammed at the source, it was what she could tell from monitoring the signal.
Had you read my post, you would have seen that I was talking about a clarification in the dialogue. I wouldn't have any knowledge of what Uhura knew or didn't know.
Again, this is what I said:
""They probably should have been a little clearer, and said the transmission was being jammed then, rather than being jammed "at the source". That makes it sound like Khan and his gang were already at the station, holding Carol Marcus hostage. We know she managed to escape before Khan ever reached the station.""
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