What was the secret of Genesis anyway?
Was there a secret or was Krug looking for something that didn't exist?
shareI've always thought it was what David kept to himself about the development of the technology, his use of the "dangerously unpredictable" substance protomatter. Although, I don't know how he could have mathematically explained the results he acheived in testing to anyone else on the Genesis team, especially Carol, without giving away his shortcut.
David told Saavik that using protomatter was the only way to solve some problems and without cheating, it may have been "years or never" before Genesis became a usable technology. In "Star Trek II" David told his mother definitively that Genesis would work and that she would be remembered with the likes of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and the Vulcan philosopher/scientist Surak. Lofty company. And who wouldn't want this for their own mother?
Of course, the secret was out and the gig up when David told Saavik about his use of protomatter on the Genesis planet surface. Kruge would have been disappointed, in any case. No further Genesis torpedoes would be constructed and the science itself would likely never be reproduced, given the disastrous results of the Mutara confrontation.
-Rod