Definitely a "so the movie can happen" thing.
Khan Noonien-Singh in The Savage Curtain?
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Definitely a "so the movie can happen" thing.
Well, or they could have just said they were landing on what they thought was Ceti Alpha IV.
I got into that on the thread I linked to above. Basically, the chunks of Ceti Alpha VI were drawn back together by the planet's gravity, and appeared at first glance to be an intact planet.
It begs the question of how Khan knew definitively Ceti Alpha VI exploded in the first place? They were left on the planet with cargo containers and whatever supplies Enterprise was able to spare. I don't ever recall a telescope being shown or mentioned. And even if they had one, would it have been able to spot the planet in the first place?
Can we take Khan at his word that an explosion is what happened?
They routinely spot things at light years distance. They’re not gonna scan a system where they plan to maroon people to make sure there’s no obvious threat? That’s the definition of negligent.
You can see Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the naked eye. Knowing it’s vanished is plausible. Knowing it actually exploded is another thing. You could tell your orbit changed just by noting that your year has abruptly become longer or shorter. It’s basic MkI eyeball astronomy.
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I'd like to think they got more than stone knives and bearskins.
I agree with you on knowing something happened to the planet would be possible. It's the explosion part I wonder about.
I mean, Khan may not exactly be the most reliable of sources by the time Chekov and Terrell enccounter him...
15 years or so of bitter exile and losing one's wife and 19 other followers to a nasty native parasite would probably make one a pretty biased and unreliable source for what really happened during such a major event.
More charitably, if we assume Khan did have a telescope (no reason to assume he didn't/couldn't make one), he may have seen what appeared to be CA6 going boom regardless of what actually happened to it, and concluded 'explosion'. Besides the fact that he'd be going on visual evidence alone, he's also a man centuries removed from his own time and unaware of the vast majority of scientific advances made while he was taking a nap.
Is it possible that with Khan's sheer brain power and that of his compatriots, they did something themselves that caused it? And rather than blame himself, which would be too painful, Khan shifts his self-loathing to the easy target of Kirk?
Explode a neighboring planet??? Using what, exactly? They toss a cargo container at it?
*shrugs*
Hey, don't underestimate mass drivers...Explode a neighboring planet??? Using what, exactly? They toss a cargo container at it?
Though you'd have to be mass driving quite a few cargo containers to explode a planet...or one really big cargo container...
If Khan Noonien Singh had replaced Col. Green, that would have meant that Kirk & Spock would have been up against not one but two Khans. That is more than enough Khan men for Kirk & Spock to come into contact with in one episode.
Two Khans would convolute the conflict for Kirk & Spock. It would make it a high concentration of Khans in the same setting.
Too many Khans might also make it difficult for the tv audience to easily contemplate who's who.
If you add up the pros and cons that the other posters have mentioned about this matter, the cons win. Inserting Khan Noonien Singh into "The Savage Curtain" is a terrible concept.
Two Khans would convolute the conflict for Kirk & Spock. It would make it a high concentration of Khans in the same setting.
Too many Khans might also make it difficult for the tv audience to easily contemplate who's who.
If you add up the pros and cons that the other posters have mentioned about this matter, the cons win. Inserting Khan Noonien Singh into "The Savage Curtain" is a terrible concept.
You Khan't do that.
They certainly can, Khan Khan.
I contradict that.
Singh. Singh a song. Sing it loud, to rule your whole life long.
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