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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] Instead of the various Alpha Quadrant powers always fighting over colony planets in far-off star systems, why don't they use their amazing technology to terraform new planets much closer to home for habitation?
gpt
Terraforming is a lengthy process. We actually do see it going on a few times.

The Genesis device was intended to be a system for rapid terraforming, but between the death of David Marcus, the Genesis planet proving to be unstable, and the Klingon Empire declaring Genesis a weapon of mass destruction, the major Alpha Quadrant powers signed a treaty banning further experimentation with it.