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It says it's based off a story by Nick Meyer, so probably the original.
That's true, but one of the script writers is Kristen Beyer, who's an executive producer on Strange New Worlds, so we'll see.
Likely schedule conflict. Because of the time it took to complete the script they lost their preferred actor and had to settle for who was available for the filming schedule.
It's a Secret Hideout production. It's not a tie-in.
So the story goes, they intentionally went with someone whose ethnicity didn't match what Khan's is said to be or what Montalban's actually was in the hopes the "my name is Khan" scene would be remembered as one of the greatest plot twists in sci-fi cinema, a modern day version Darth Vader telling Luke Skywalker "I am your father."
True. But audio dramas by design are often "over dramatic " as a convention of the medium. I will see how they present it and hows its done. I'm open to it being 100 percent cannon just need to wrap my head around that a podcast series would be official cannon along side the TV shows and movies. .Would this even get an IMDB listing?
