Didn't McGivers suggest that Khan might be a Sikh?
It would explain his name (all Sikh males, regardless of ethnicity, are called Singh) but Khan is obviously not religious, so that's where it all sort of falls down.
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Didn't McGivers suggest that Khan might be a Sikh?
It would explain his name (all Sikh males, regardless of ethnicity, are called Singh) but Khan is obviously not religious, so that's where it all sort of falls down.
Yes and again when a Star Trek tv series cane out without Kirk and Spock and a Klingon in starflwer.
Which shows she might be competent historian, but her knowledge of religion is spotty. Singh might suggest a Sikh (as in a Sikh would be called Singh, but Singh isn't always a Sikh name. However, any devout Sikh would wear some form of turban, particularly to formal gatherings.
IMO, Hindu would be more likely, even if we accept his geographical origin identification. Which given that he was played by a Mexican (?) is dubious at best.
It wasn't just a suggestion. She sounded pretty sure of it and the episode seemed to imply that he was indeed a Sikh from India.
How so?
The actor was a White Mexican, so the new Kahn being played by a White Brit continues a franchise Trek tradition.
I'm sure that's what the writers were going for with Singh. Khan has it's origins in Central Asia and is common among Muslims. but not used as a first name. Noonien, is more mysterious, I've seen it attributed to Chinese, Indian and Korean origins.
But at least Kahn looked the part, even if his ethnic origin wasn't the same as the one of the character. For instance, most Italians would be much more credible playing an Arab than most Norwegians. I say most because there are always exceptions; like a Norwegian with Arab parents for example, though I am told that those are excessively rare. But if you see an Italian in the role of an Arab on screen, you won't say to yourself: "That guy is not an Arab, he's an Italian" unless you know him personally of course.
Yup.
Though in some respects Cumberbatch is closer to it than Montalban was. Khan as the product of white supremacy types, hiding out in India/Pakistan at the end of the Raj and toiling in their milkshake labs leads more sensibly to him than it does Montalban. Somewhere in the mountains of Kashmir perhaps. Goodness knows his accent was closer to something I might not be surprised to hear from a person who was born and grew up in India. (This is partly tongue in cheek...though the first bit has a nice Metal Gear Solid side to it. Or Twins with Danny Devito.)
Kind of comes close to "All brown people look alike".
What? the Disco uniforms don't have belt buckles...oh, wait. The other disco.
I think Khan was Certainly I tended as Sikh. Turban, Long hair, and I half remember him wearing a bracelet. Plus there’s the whole ‘warrior’ reputation. The clothing of his buddies suggests that if he is Muslim, he’s not particularly strict on some of the rules.
Is that a Ferdinand reference? I just saw that movie with the mini-ITDUDEs. Or is Ferdinand a reference to some other bull in a China shop saying I am not aware off?If that's the case I've seen bulls in china shops with more stealth.
We never saw him in a turban in Space Seed other than in McGiver's painting. Don't recall any bracelets on him.
True story, I thought Malcolm Reed was played by an American, so thoroughly Hollywood mid-Atlantic was his accent. To this day, I find it hard to shake the feeling that Troi was the only Brit playing a Brit in the history of Trek, and even that’s largely down to the novels expanding Ian Troi’s backstory....at least until good old Bashir came along, but he probably confuses the heck out of people more used to the Dulux Colour chart method of identifying peoples backgrounds. O’Brien is a tough call...especially as Ireland is unified in the Trek universe. But I could go with generically ‘British’ in the Isles sense, and him and Jules had proper pint glasses that we don’t have here anymore. Of course, they were still total stereotypes. Darts, beer, Battle of Britain and Tennis. If only they had crossed over more with TOS, we could have got Jimmy Doohan and them walking into Quarks, and much hilarity would have ensued.
He also wears it in wrath of Khan I think (the Turban that is.) The bracelet is a potentially false memory, though he does get the communicator one of Reliant.
Which was the attitude of TV producers of the past
Bull in a china shop is a common idiom which Webster's defines as "a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior".
The second. It refers to someone exceedingly overexcited, damaging everything around them in their overeagerness, whilst being likely mistaken in their reasoning. Or just plain clumsy and unstealthy.
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