The people who were on leave were the station and lab support personnel. The primary project scientists were the ones who were left on the station. Five will killed outright by Khan and his people. One got vapourised by the eel-controlled Capt. Terrell, and David Marcus, one of the two project leaders, died on Genesis at the hands of the Klingons.DocHorror wrote:Not all the scientists we're killed. The majority were on leave off the station, thats why so few where there to meet Khan.All but one of the project scientists were killed. The test-station computers were wiped to prevent the design specs for the Genesis Device from falling into Khan Singh's hands.
Not that the novel counts as canon evidence, but in the book, they purged the liquid-memory tanks which contained the Genesis data into space. In the movie, there was nothing in the computer and the only system which did have the Genesis formula was in the device itself, which was lost.According to the novel it was wiped (or downloaded I can't remember which) & replaced with a computer game.
And if we want to go with novelisation texts as evidence, nevermind that they do not count as canon, you also have to consider this passage from Vonda McIntyre's novelisation of STIII:
Genesis had taken six primary investigators plus a laboratory full of support personnel eighteen months of solid work and all their lifetimes of experience to create. Even if Saavik had been a member of the team, she would not be able to say, in a few simple words, how to recreate the project.
Further in the same book, in the scene where David Marcus is dying, Saavik pleas to the Klingons to help save him, stating outright "Don't you understand? You can never replicate Genesis without him".
If we could go with book evidence, these passages would indicate that without the project scientists, who were gone now, Genesis was irreproduceable. But as it is, only the movies and episodes count, and we still see that all but one of the project scientists were killed, the data was destroyed, and the prototype device was lost. And in the end, we have David's flat statement "Genesis doesn't work" from STIII. The project was a failure and absolutely nothing in subsequent canon demonstrates that any attempt to recreate Genesis was ever made.
Sorry, but "may have been transported" does not count as evidence. Only supposition.Mind you, if it was downloaded it may have been transported down to Regula with Carol, David & that guy who got vapourised...
