Khan was white, yeah, as opposed to Ricardo Montalban's authentic Indian Sikh heritage.
Khan was always white.
Khan was always white.
Nagging Questions Thread(Spoilers)
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4. How did Scott manage to slip through the Vengeance' security. Even low bid private contractors should have noticed an extra ship flying into a top secret facility.
In reading the novel - it mentions that Scotty was help by Jupiter's magnetosphere and that he came around from Io making scanning somewhat difficult. The book goes into more detail.
In reading the novel - it mentions that Scotty was help by Jupiter's magnetosphere and that he came around from Io making scanning somewhat difficult. The book goes into more detail.
Kirk's fame as a hero from the Nero incident would strike a deep blow to Starfleet, possibly making the desire for revenge more pronounced and making it easier for Marcus to bring other top Starfleet brass to his way of thinking. With that, he could potentially have a huge card to play with any civilian political leaders on Earth or in the Federation Council.
Also, the Enterprise is the flagship, established in Trek '09. A prime target for such a situation.
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What did Khan say to Admiral Marcus before he killed him? I couldn't make it out.
Khan was a huge Kids in the Hall fan back in the 90s.
What Khan actually said to Marcus was "You should have let me sleep."
McCoy had almost no time at all- after clinical death, even with induced hypothermia, the brain only has only a short time until complete brain death (ie: brain death does not mean that all of the tissue has died- it just means that the brain is not functioning). Source Any time lost if the blood of the other augments didn't work would have been fatal for Kirk. Now, if they couldn't get Khan, I'm sure McCoy would have tried another person, but he would have had no guarantee at all that the person was an augment or that their blood would have worked at all after being immediately resuscitated from being frozen. So McCoy went with the logical conclusion that if they could get Khan alive, then they'd have to do that.
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Yeah, it's pretty obvious that they darkened his skin in Space Seed:
When this is what he looks like naturally:
There's no way in hell that a show could get away with that today- they didn't even try it when they did it in TWOK:
They had essentially put him in "black face" back in the 60's, and even by the 80's, that was unacceptable anymore. He even speaks with the accent of someone whose native language is Spanish, which is not even close to an Indian accent. The biggest different between Cumberbatch and Montalban is the color of their eyes- blue and brown. Should they have made Cumberbatch wear brown contacts to look more like Montalban? Hell no, he is fine just as he is, and Montalban would have been fine just as he was, too, because everyone loved TWOK.
This will be a great relief for many of Kirk's Redshirts.
Probably not considering they're all in deep-freeze.
I'm puzzled why this is even a concern? We saw all kinds of fantastic technology in TOS that was gone and never heard from again beginning with the very next episode.
I doubt it since they put him back in cold storage. There would be massive ethical concerns if people were to start "milking" the blood from Khan and his crew (if they have blood like his), so I'm sure it was all done on the hush-hush. Kirk was only clinically dead for a few minutes before they started resuscitation efforts on him- people are able to survive if revived in time. Really, all Khan's blood did was repair the radiation damage done to Kirk's cells- it wouldn't have worked if Kirk had been completely brain dead, though.
Yeah, as silly as the whole 'magic blood' bit was, at least they tried to make it seem as though the blood wasn't a cure-all. McCoy scrambled to preserve Kirk's brain function until he could repair the radiation damage. So no, McCoy didn't cure death, he just cured radiation poisoning.
Well, if not a cure-all, the blood did cure whatever was killing that little girl at the beginning of the movie, too.
But I'd also say bringing Kirk back wasn't particularly magic (blood or otherwise) because it took two months and even more medical procedures for Kirk to even regain consciousness (if I remember that part correctly).
The way some who saw the movie before me were talking about it on these boards, it sounded as if McCoy just injected Khan's blood into Kirk and, BOOM, he was alive and kicking, again. Now that would've been ridiculous. How it was done had some credibility.
Two weeks for him to regain consciousness- but yeah, it wasn't an easy process according to McCoy. To me, if people can accept how Spock came back, which was completely ridiculous in every way, it shouldn't be that difficult to see someone who had just died be revived.
