Por ocasião da novela oficial do filme, a gravação do Genesis foi provavelmente tirada dos registros de computador da Enterprise durante o seu embarque pelas forças klingon. Aprendemos que eles também puderam transmitir seus próprios registros de missão.
When their vision cleared, they saw what Sarek observed: the destruction of the Enterprise. The battered ship struggled against its death, fighting to stay in the sky, but another explosion racked it, and another, and it fell from space into atmosphere. It glowed with the friction of its speed. It burned. It disappeared in ashes and in flames.
Distressed, Chapel turned away.
How very like a human, Sarek thought, to grieve over a starship.
"But one fatal error can destroy the most sinister plan," Kamarag said. "The mission recordings remained in the memory of our fighting ship! Officer Maltz transmitted them to me before he, too, died. Did he die, as the Federation claims, a suicide? Or was it convenient to eliminate the last objective witness?"