Khan was married. Who performed the ceremony?
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As recently as a few centuries ago, all a marriage required was an agreement between two people. The role of an "officiator" arose from having the union blessed by a member of the church but was not essential.
From a legal sense, the presence of witnesses was a necessity in wealthier strata of society to stop the young folks and marrying one other without their parents' approval. Marriages without witnesses could be ignored.
TLDR: Depending on the society they lived in, Kahn and McGivers could be considered married by just their own say-so.
From a legal sense, the presence of witnesses was a necessity in wealthier strata of society to stop the young folks and marrying one other without their parents' approval. Marriages without witnesses could be ignored.
TLDR: Depending on the society they lived in, Kahn and McGivers could be considered married by just their own say-so.
exactly, especially as organized religion is more or less obsolete in trek and i can't see any marriage perks in the federation (like tax deductions or stuff like that) - marriage should be more or less a personel statement like purple hair (among humans please don't show me alist of pertinent aliens)
That must have hurt.
I don't think they would. But the original poster asked under what law Khan would be married, and I wanted to explain that sovereign states essentially can either recognize or not recognize the existence of other governments (and therefore of other bodies of law).
No, I think the Federation also has the authority to consider them all as convicted criminals subjected to a legal sentence of being marooned on a remote planet as punishment for criminal activity.
DS9 made it very clear with Kassidy Yates's line about how her father would have wanted her to be married by a minister that Earth's organized religions still exists in the Star Trek Universe. To say nothing of the various religious organizations we've seen among Vulcans, Bajorans, and other Federation cultures.
Or, y'know, a legal commitment to one-another that also entails certain rights such as joint property ownership, the right to make legal decisions on the other's behalf during times of medical incapacity, inheritance rights, hospital visitation rights, child custody issues, etc etc etc. Marriage has and will always be more than just a personal statement like dying your hair.
Since they created their own society and their own rules, which was part of the point of Khan building his own empire, they were married by whatever rights laws they had deemed fit. All he had to say was "I take you as my wife."
Which means he's in charge of divorce too
Constantly bugging a homicidal murderer to up date their relationship status on the official record, can't be healthy.
Constantly bugging a homicidal murderer to up date their relationship status on the official record, can't be healthy.
Yeah but was because the Genesis Device used protomatter. The crew of the Reliant had no idea about that. As far as they knew, they would have been conducting tests on a single planet that would not affect anything else around it.
Carol was the mission commander?
If so, then she knew about the protomatter.
She told the Reliant to find her more planets, which is what it was doing.
She probably wanted to Genesis 50 planets successfully, then wait a couple years, to see that nothing wound down or blew up, before she submitted her report to starfleet, claiming that Genesis was both safe and usable.
The scientific method.
If so, then she knew about the protomatter.
She told the Reliant to find her more planets, which is what it was doing.
She probably wanted to Genesis 50 planets successfully, then wait a couple years, to see that nothing wound down or blew up, before she submitted her report to starfleet, claiming that Genesis was both safe and usable.
The scientific method.
Near as I can tell, colonization policy, if Khan had played ball, then the federation would have bankrolled a colony for Khan, and then millions of humans who thought that it sounded interesting to be smarter and faster.. Or just the sub-optimal like "Jules" who wanted to claw their way up to average, would have joined him.
35 years to make a planet.
Put your name on a list, and then your kids get to settle that world.
Diplomatically, perhaps Khan would cut in line?
35 years to make a planet.
Put your name on a list, and then your kids get to settle that world.
Diplomatically, perhaps Khan would cut in line?
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Joaquin married them. He answered that ad for the Universal Life Church in the back of Rolling Stone.
I was under the impression David had kept his use of protomatter a secret from her.
Also I'm fairly certain the Genesis Project team didn't have a rank structure like Starfleet's.
Carol did the presentation for Starfleet. Either that means she was in charge, or that who ever was in charge knew about Kirk and Carol, and that Kirk had a vote on whether their project gained traction.
If she was in the same field of science as David, then she would have picked it up, that something was very wrong.
Geologist vs. Engineer?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that Khan could ever have considered McGivers his "beloved wife" when we saw how he basically beat the crap out of her when they met in "Space Seed".
I'm not convinced Augments are even capable of love.
I'm not convinced Augments are even capable of love.
That's an odd assertion...
