The degree to which the crew "went along with it" would depend on how much they knew.
1) Everybody would know that Khan had come aboard and had tried to take over the ship but had been defeated somehow.
2) Those seen at the Briefing Room scene would know Khan had survived and had been banished to Ceti Alpha V.
3) Those on the Bridge would know the ship had sailed to Ceti Alpha V for whatever purpose.
4) Those at the Transporter Room would know Khan had survived and was beamed down to the planet below, possibly but not necessarily identified for them as Ceti Alpha V.
5) Assorted others, from Quartermaster's on, would know something relating to colonization of a planet, possiby Ceti Alpha V, was going on.
We're simply speaking about the sum total of sets 2 and 4. Everybody else would be speculating at best, as regards Khan's fate.
As for the differences between veneration of Khan and Hitler, the Augment and Nazi ideologies have their similarities but also differences. In the context of the former, we hear of no assigning of blame for the woes of the world to those of lesser breed: non-Augments are cattle, but not to be hated or blamed or disposed of. The idea of the superior breed is distanced from ideas of hereditary greatness, too: there's no great nation with a great history from which the Augments would claim to derive their superiority. They aren't even particularly attached to Earth in their later appearances, or distrusting or dismissive of nonhumans.
However, the actual rites of veneration seem no different: Kirk does praise an Augment individual in a fashion that to other Trek characters from other contexts looks exactly like somebody today praising Hitler. Although of course we never get any indication that Kirk would have particularly liked the other Augment leaders of the day, just like a Hitler fan need not feel enthusiastic about Stalin or Churchill. Yet he doesn't actually condemn selective breeding or genetic augmentation, either, which is already enough to get him stoned to death by a mob in any other context.
Timo Saloniemi
1) Everybody would know that Khan had come aboard and had tried to take over the ship but had been defeated somehow.
2) Those seen at the Briefing Room scene would know Khan had survived and had been banished to Ceti Alpha V.
3) Those on the Bridge would know the ship had sailed to Ceti Alpha V for whatever purpose.
4) Those at the Transporter Room would know Khan had survived and was beamed down to the planet below, possibly but not necessarily identified for them as Ceti Alpha V.
5) Assorted others, from Quartermaster's on, would know something relating to colonization of a planet, possiby Ceti Alpha V, was going on.
We're simply speaking about the sum total of sets 2 and 4. Everybody else would be speculating at best, as regards Khan's fate.
As for the differences between veneration of Khan and Hitler, the Augment and Nazi ideologies have their similarities but also differences. In the context of the former, we hear of no assigning of blame for the woes of the world to those of lesser breed: non-Augments are cattle, but not to be hated or blamed or disposed of. The idea of the superior breed is distanced from ideas of hereditary greatness, too: there's no great nation with a great history from which the Augments would claim to derive their superiority. They aren't even particularly attached to Earth in their later appearances, or distrusting or dismissive of nonhumans.
However, the actual rites of veneration seem no different: Kirk does praise an Augment individual in a fashion that to other Trek characters from other contexts looks exactly like somebody today praising Hitler. Although of course we never get any indication that Kirk would have particularly liked the other Augment leaders of the day, just like a Hitler fan need not feel enthusiastic about Stalin or Churchill. Yet he doesn't actually condemn selective breeding or genetic augmentation, either, which is already enough to get him stoned to death by a mob in any other context.
Timo Saloniemi
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For God's sake, will this question never die? Uhura recorded the damn hearing. It was an official hearing, they were in their dress uniforms, and one of his crew members left the ship permanently. Of course Kirk reported it to Starfleet.
