Space Seed: Why did Khan take her back?
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She was being loyal to her original captain and crew. He had to admire that. Maybe he was plain old physically drawn to her.
"Any woman one wants" loses a lot of meaning in a population of 70.
I think Khan was very turned on by the power he had over her. Yes, she turned on him, but when she had her choice to go with Khan or not, she chose to go with him. I would imagine power was almost like an aphrodisiac for him. Once she made the decision to go with him, he knew he'd have her eating out of his hands. I think power (of any kind) was a huge turn on for Khan (although not necessarily a sexual turn on)...
Khan was used to having that sort of power over women. I think he was more intrigued by her having rescued Kirk than by anything else.
When I was younger, I have to admit I actually modeled my behavior toward women on this performance (after years of getting nowhere as a nice guy).
The thing of it is: it worked!! The bigger an SOB I was, the more they came running. And the more they came running, the more contempt I had for them. I eventually got disgusted with conquest and sought out relationships instead. I decided to just not be that guy anymore.
I think it shows that Khan is a three-dimensional character who didn't want someone who was just passive but had a strong will, although it doesn't seem like she had much of a backbone at first by going along with what Khan wanted, her betraying Khan showed that she was a person of some character and Khan liked that, it was a great episode overall.
No Snu-Snu for almost 200 years, 
She was carrying his space seed...
This sums it up for me. I don't think Kahn wanted a partner who was a doormat, but someone who has his same strength of will.
Well, she stood up to him in the end.
And yeah, when she offered to go with him into exile, as the group leader he had to be making a calculation as to the survival value of having one more physically healthy, young, fertile woman who likely had at least a little more contemporary knowledge about everything than he could have acquired by speed-reading the ship's manuals. A pretty simple decision.
And yeah, when she offered to go with him into exile, as the group leader he had to be making a calculation as to the survival value of having one more physically healthy, young, fertile woman who likely had at least a little more contemporary knowledge about everything than he could have acquired by speed-reading the ship's manuals. A pretty simple decision.
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