My Gripes with STID!
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I thought it pretty clear Khan's claim to be an "engineer of sorts" was a lie in "Space Seed" from before they knew he was Khan, in order that they would show him the ship's technical manuals and basically allow him to case the joint.
Maybe he meant "social engineer." I agree about casing the joint.
I see no reason it has to be lie. He could have studied engineering before going into the dictator biz. Most dictators had previous careers. Doctors. Lawyers. Artists.
He'd need some sort of technical background to understand what he was reading. He wasn't born with that knowledge.
^ Being the super-genius that he was, Khan was truly a renaissance man, so I don't think he needed a career in engineering to grasp its principles. Certainly, he had no training in 23rd century engineering and yet got up to speed very quickly. He may have simply picked up engineering along the way or in whatever school for genetically engineered geniuses he went to at a young age.
The other thing is that he says that he "was once an engineer of sorts." Granted, that could mean that his training in engineering doesn't compare to 23rd century techniques, but it could also mean that he wasn't really an engineer, but he meant to show interest in the future, now the present.
True, it doesn't have to be a lie, though.
The other thing is that he says that he "was once an engineer of sorts." Granted, that could mean that his training in engineering doesn't compare to 23rd century techniques, but it could also mean that he wasn't really an engineer, but he meant to show interest in the future, now the present.
True, it doesn't have to be a lie, though.
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Why would there be?
What "historical Khan," exactly? Montalban looked plausibly ethnic and non-white to his audience (in both versions) and had acting chops. Cumberbatch has one of those things in common with him, not that they made all that much use of it (say it with me now: "No ship should go down withooouuuut herrrr Caaaaptaaainnn..." 
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Yeah, I think there is a clear resemblance between Montalban and the man in the painting. But it's also fudged, as if Marla isn't working from a photograph and perhaps partially even using her imagination. I always liked that touch, of it being similar but not exact.
I'm referring to the real Khan Noonian Singh, of course.
I mean, there has to be some important standard by which we're judging resemblances, right? I'm going with the real Khan, who's portrayed in TOS and nuTrek with all the accuracy one would expect of Hollywood.
Cumberbatch's portrayal of Khan is easily as authentic as his portrayal of Turing.
I mean, there has to be some important standard by which we're judging resemblances, right? I'm going with the real Khan, who's portrayed in TOS and nuTrek with all the accuracy one would expect of Hollywood.
Cumberbatch's portrayal of Khan is easily as authentic as his portrayal of Turing.
Khan's a fictional character right? So his appearance is solely dependent on the imagination of the production team, isn't it?
The genders and races of comic book characters change on a semi-regular basis, so I don't see any reason why sci-fi should be different. I think a female Khan would have been awesome.
The genders and races of comic book characters change on a semi-regular basis, so I don't see any reason why sci-fi should be different. I think a female Khan would have been awesome.
Yes! Or a female Starbuck, even. Oh, wait...
"My name is: Connie!"
We already have a female Khan, she's called Janeway.
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