It's gonna be Khan (pretty damn sure now with the pics)

[cooleddie74]

Nero's alteration of the timeline only goes back as far as 2233, not the 20th century. Khan in the Prime timeline was a native Sikh who was born in India. Why would Khan Singh himself change unless someone had altered 20th century history?

Because the "altered timeline" is a narrative fig leaf.

Sure seems like it to some folks. Meh.

 

[Captain Mike]

I might be able to sit through a viewing if it was Gary Seven,..who has been the only one to "shrug" off a Vulcan Nerve Pinch".

 

[Trekkie2]

Khan has been retconned before and he'll be retconned again. If he is brought back, his middle and last name will be tossed in the can along with nonsense like selective breeding leading to WWIII in the 1990's. No one but us will know or care about inconsistencies with an old episode from the 60's.

He's a genetically engineered superman named after a historical warrior and conqueror. They should find the best actor they can afford to play him and get on with it.

So when someone watches ST:ENT "Borderland," "Cold Station 12," & "The Augments" and Malik, being one of those genetically engineered supermen prone to killing anyone and anybody, calls Khan a coward for running, they're not going to say, "Hey wait a minute, I thought Khan was eye candy not a candy ass!"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to "struggle" through a viewing in any case.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

It'll be a Khan-stant struggle, though.

 

[cooleddie74]

I Khan't read these awful puns anymore. I...I just Khan't take it anymore.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Speaking Khandidly, I just Khan't see the problem.

 

[Set Harth]

How Khanvenient.

 

[cooleddie74]

(*Plays trump card*)

I Khan't hold back any longer...

I must SINGH it loud and sing it proud!

 

[M'Sharak]

^ "(I Khan't Get No) Satisfaction"?

 

[Franklin]

^ "(I Khan't Get No) Satisfaction"?

No, more like "Everything Old Is Noonien".

 

[Nowhere Man]

Since Enterprise happened in both timelines, this could be augmented Klingons that look like Humans. They could be still pissed about Archer as well as anything else that has happened since. Starfleet could be infiltrated and a silent invasion is going on.

Yes because Paramount and Bad Robot would make a $150 Mil film about a storyline from a failed TV show that many Trekkies even failed to watch

I will pay Nowhere Man $150 million if they go with that storyline.

That's how convinced I am that they won't.

I'll hold you to that Sam.

 

[thestrangequark]

^ "(I Khan't Get No) Satisfaction"?

No, more like "Everything Old Is Noonien".

This is beautiful.

 

[SonicRanger]

Second: It's been quite a while since I've seen "Space Seed", but isn't it only implied that Khan is Sikh? Novels may have filled in a lot of blanks, but his on-screen origins are actually murky. Maybe he's not Sikh or even Indian and he just didn't disabuse them of it in "Space Seed".

You're right that it's never confirmed, but McGivers seemed to think that he looked Indian:

Marla McGivers: "From the northern India area, I'd guess. Probably a Sikh. They were the most fantastic warriors."

 

[Patrickivan]

Khantrary to what everyone may think, to be Sikh does not mean he Kahn't be white. Heritage is so much more mingled now compared to the mid 21st century.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wonder if late 20th century genetic engineering involved an unhealthy fascination for Corinthian leather and midgets in white tuxedos. It would explain a lot, really.

 

[Franklin]

I wonder if late 20th century genetic engineering involved an unhealthy fascination for Corinthian leather and midgets in white tuxedos. It would explain a lot, really.

In other words, does Khan have a Tattoo?

 

[cooleddie74]

I wonder if late 20th century genetic engineering involved an unhealthy fascination for Corinthian leather and midgets in white tuxedos. It would explain a lot, really.

In other words, does Khan have a Tattoo?

He Khan't possibly. We'd have seen it.

 

[Gothowitz]

Tattoo is only groin height.

 

[SonicRanger]

Khantrary to what everyone may think, to be Sikh does not mean he Kahn't be white. Heritage is so much more mingled now compared to the mid 21st century.

Of course, Sikhism isn't an ethnicity -- it's a lifeway and religion basically. The problem, of course, with McGyvers guessing that Khan is a Sikh is that none of the identifying "Five Ks" of Sikhs can be seen with Khan. There's no a distinctively wrapped turban, no uncut hair including beard and mustache, no iron or steel bracelet, no small sword in a gatra strap, no special shorts that are all white, and no comb under a turban (because there's no turban). I think that McGyvers was just a lousy historian.