In the second season DS9 episode "Second Sight", there's a device that I think it similar. The thing that revives the dead sun has a similar graphic to the genesis device, if memory serves, some of the dialog pointed in its direction, and of course, the quote right before it is activated, "let there be light", is an obvious reference to the Biblical book of Genesis. Granted, that could be coincidental.
Nevertheless, when I saw that episode a few years ago, it just struck me as being almost certainly based on the Genesis device.
Icing on the cake, from the Star Trek wiki:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Second_Sight_%28episode%29
According to Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Seyetik's terraforming technology is based upon the Genesis Device as seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; "It was established Federation terraforming technology. Of course, the Genesis device didn't work, but obviously Seyetik's work is built upon the research of previous scientists. And it was a nice way to reference the movie." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
Which tells me that I wasn't completely mad to see some similarities there.
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