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Provenance of Titles

The fanfic I'm speaking of, incidentally, is "Image of The Invisible" so good on multiple levels (my "interview" section at the end of the fic explains in detail)
At least as to the words, “Image of the Invisible” agrees exactly with a phrase from the Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament: ‘He [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God...”.

Whether a quotation was intended, is another question. It is the kind of phrase that people can pick up, regardless of their own POV, and put to use in a context unrelated to its original use.
 
And it doesn't really have much to do with the plot. It sounds like it ought be a time travel episode, but it's not. And I tend to mix it up with "By Any Other Name" for some reason.

And a confession: as many times as I've watched the episode, I've never thought "Space Seed" was a terribly good title. As shame they couldn't come with something better . . .like, I don't know, "The Wrath of Khan." :)

Of course the title enabled a parody in Trek to be called "Space Weed". I kind of like "The Khan of Wrath" as a title.
 
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