Eugenics war (world war 3)
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I fixed that for you.
Who would he have talked to? Khan only spoke with a few Enterprise officers over a few days, got to study some of the ship's library, and then he had no contact with the outside world for 15 years. I doubt he talked to the scientists at Regula One much before he started slaughtering them.
Or asked his wife... the historian...
Haha! "Duh" to all of us who forgot that connection!
But the thing is that the "200 years" reference wasn't wrong until latter-day Trek chronologies made it wrong. Heck, even Kirk said that getting locked up for 200 years "ought to be just about right" in "Tomorrow is Yesterday," and he ought to know.
Well, she immediately assumed that the clean-shaven guy was a Sikh, so she obviously wasn't a very good historian.
I think she majored in Art History.
Well, she immediately assumed that the clean-shaven guy was a Sikh, so she obviously wasn't a very good historian.
Odds really are that she recognized Khan immediately (that's her specific field of expertise, after all), and realized how controversial the encounter was - so she lied and misdirected from the get-go, biding her time until she could wrap the superman around her, uh, wrist and proceed with her personal plans of world conquest...
Of course, this would mean that the real Khan had nothing whatsoever to do with Sikhs, or else McGivers' lie would not be effective. But that's what it looks like anyway.
Timo Saloniemi
Of course, this would mean that the real Khan had nothing whatsoever to do with Sikhs, or else McGivers' lie would not be effective. But that's what it looks like anyway.
Timo Saloniemi
The Wrath of Khan is the movie that clearly states "In the 23rd century..." at the beginning, though. And gives 2283 as a past date in dialogue.
I now have this image of McGivers dying and Khan going, "Damn. I never did get around to asking her what year it was."
You really think Khan spent a whole lot of time talking to her.
In "Space Seed," he told her frankly that she was mentally inferior.
So to him, it would probably be like talking to a kid.
Kor
Only that Squire of Gothos implied a much different date.
I'd imagine that Khan's sideline as a hairdresser took up a lot of their time.
Not as far as I'm concerned. TOS stated that they were one & the same thing, and that's good enough for me. I don't pay much attention to the retcons that TNG introduced into it.
He runs down the number of casualties of WWI, II, and III in "Bread and Circuses" (Getting the totals wrong for WWI & II, as well). Spock refers to the Eugenics Wars as "the last of your World Wars" in "Space Seed" and McCoy confirms this.
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