I TNG-episoden "Home Soil" besöker besättningen en terraformande grupp av forskare.
Episoden förklarar terraformingsprocessen som liknar Genesis Project: välj en lämplig planet, bekräfta att inget existerande liv existerar, etc.
Från transkription :
We take a lifeless planet and little by little transform it into an M class environment, capable of supporting life. Terraforming makes you feel a little god-like. The first phase involves selecting the planet. That's very important. It must have the right mass and gravity, the correct rate of rotation, and a balanced day and night. The planet must also be without life or the prospect of life developing naturally. The Federation determines if that's so. Then, we take over. This station is phase two. Phase Three involves water. Usually we create basins using hydraulic landscaping, but the water on this planet is subsurface, and extremely high in salt content. We are just about to begin pumping and filtering the water, removing the salt, oxygenating and replacing. Next, we introduce micro-organisms, and when the process is complete eventually, we'll have a lush, arable, biosphere.
En av forskarna kallar sig "Gardener of Edens".
Forskarna uppvisar också liknande egenskaper för gruppen på Regula 1: passion, besatthet, otålighet och bedräglighet.