Picard vs Khan

[RobertScorpio]

I have read several times that Ronald D Moore got hired based on a spec script he wrote pitting Khan against Picard. Has anyone ever seen this script? If not, I think Moore should let someone adapt it into an alternate-reality book..I'd buy it....

have any of you read any further on this? If so, how did Moore explain Khan surviving the destruction of the Reliant in the classic move STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN???

Rob
scorpio

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Ron Moore was hired on the basis of his spec script "The Bonding."

 

[sbk1234]

I haven't read it, but I have read an article or two about it. My understanding is at the end it would turn out to be an elaborate simulation. I'm really glad they didn't do it if that was going to be the payoff.

 

[Vic Sixx]

I imagine Data would be a better match for Kahn than Picard would. His computer mind against Kahn's.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I haven't read it, but I have read an article or two about it. My understanding is at the end it would turn out to be an elaborate simulation. I'm really glad they didn't do it if that was going to be the payoff.

Maybe they would have gotten Edward James Olmos to play khan this time around..

Rob

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I may be misremembering this, but I believe the Khan script got him a reference from one of his professors which got him an internship on "NextGen".

 

[Sir Rhosis]

The Khan returns via an academy simulation was by a young writer named Marc Bernardin (spelling is from memory) -- he wrote an article for "Starlog" about his script and his internship later on DS9 during the first season (if memory serves he came up with some of the chants in that episode... Christ, I forget what it was about -- something to do with "getting home" or "getting somewhere" and guest-starred some dude with a Fu Manchu mustache). I don't think he ever sold anything to television but he did wind up writing for "Starlog."

I do remember that he wrote that his Khan script was turned down because Montalban no longer wanted to play Khan. I recall thinking someone did not have the heart to tell the lad his story was hackneyed beyond belief.

Sir Rhosis

A quick Google search confirms my memory. Bernardin seems to be a critic for "Entertainment Weekly" these days.

 

[KirksFlyingFist]

Picard would get his ass kicked waiting in his ready room to devise a plan.

 

[Kirk-Fu]

Picard would get his ass kicked waiting in his ready room to devise a plan.

So true it's scary.

 

[trekkerguy]

Picard would own Khan... damn this would be an awesome battle...

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Picard would get his ass kicked waiting in his ready room to devise a plan.

So true it's scary.

It should be renamed the Unready Room (knee slapper i know)

 

[AdmiralGarak]

he wrote an article for "Starlog" about his script and his internship later on DS9 during the first season (if memory serves he came up with some of the chants in that episode... Christ, I forget what it was about -- something to do with "getting home" or "getting somewhere"

Sounds like "Move Along Home". In other words, this guy confessed to writing the infamous Allamaraine! song-- DS9's most ridiculed scene.

Interesting that he worked on an episode that essentially had the same twist ending that his Picard vs. Khan story had.

 

[Hermiod]

Picard would crush Khan.

The man has a maneuver named after him. They make cadets learn it at the Academy.

Khan may be intelligent, but when he attacked Kirk he had never fought a Starship-to-Starship battle in his life. Once it became a fair fight, Kirk was never going to lose and neither would Picard.

 

[Whoa Nellie]

Picard would crush Khan.

The man has a maneuver named after him. They make cadets learn it at the Academy.

Khan may be intelligent, but when he attacked Kirk he had never fought a Starship-to-Starship battle in his life. Once it became a fair fight, Kirk was never going to lose and neither would Picard.

Agreed!

Warmest Wishes,
Whoa Nellie

 

[Anticitizen]

Troi could be useful for once by actually sensing hostility before the Enterprise gets phasered. If she's factored into this fantasy, of course.

 

[Plecostomus]

Picard would crush Khan.

The man has a maneuver named after him. They make cadets learn it at the Academy.

Khan may be intelligent, but when he attacked Kirk he had never fought a Starship-to-Starship battle in his life. Once it became a fair fight, Kirk was never going to lose and neither would Picard.

Picard would invent another one: the "Steamed Khan ala Miranda..." By the 24th century Mirandas burst into flame if you look at them wrong... it wouldn't take much to end this battle.

WORF: "A Miranda is firing at us. This is amusing... should I raise the shields?"

RIKER: "What the hell--"

DEANNA: "Someone aboard is full of rage and anger."

PICARD: "Hm. Fire a warning shot in thier general direction."

WORF: "Target destroyed!"

PICARD: "I said a warning shot! Not destroy them utterly!"

RIKER: "It was a Miranda sir, they tend to combust if you close a door too hard."

PICARD: "Ah yes, good point."

 

[Hermiod]

^Even in a fair fight (Miranda vs Miranda), Picard still wins.

We're talking about the same Khan who fought a distinctly two-dimensional battle against Kirk vs the man who made his ship appear to be in two places at once when fighting the Ferengi.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Khan would make a run for Picard on the bridge, and before he got the chance to get to Picard, Worf would leap over the tactical station, landing between Picard and Khan, whip out a bat'leth that just happened to be on the bridge at the time, and bat'leth Khan to death in a raging blood-orgy.

 

[Anwar]

So true. I never got why everyone thought Khan was such a great villain compared to say, Dukat.

 

[KlingonPredator]

Khan was pure,unaldulterated rage. Dukat was more calculating. Khan would tear out your heart and eat it in front of you.Dukat would stab you in the back, talk to you about why he did it while you're bleeding to death. Worthy adversaries with two different methods of mayhem. They both worked in the settings they were placed in.