Spoilers Star Trek: Khan 1x02 - "Scheherazade"

[Christopher]

I am getting them through my Audible account. They appear as released.

There are way too many ads there. Episode 2 did show up on YouTube, just later in the day (around 6 PM).

 

[F. King Daniel]

Khan's portrayed as described in Space Seed, but other takes (Into Darkness, SNW) portray his reign as one filled with murder and torture. It seems like this audio is just taking the lead from Space Seed and ignoring how Khan was described in the 21st century works.

Into Darkness has Spock call out Khan as planning to exterminate anyone he deemed as less than superior. I took it as a reference to his final solution from the Eugenics Wars books, which the writers spoke about having read prior to writing the movie.

Looking at how people today justify horrors in news and social media, it's very possible Kirk in "Space Seed" read different historical accounts to what Spock did in "Into Darkness"

 

[David cgc]

Looking at how people today justify horrors in news and social media, it's very possible Kirk in "Space Seed" read different historical accounts to what Spock did in "Into Darkness"

Prime Kirk was also a war veteran (not just likely from DSC/SNW, but it's also implied by his discussion of being on planets under Klingon occupation in "Errand of Mercy") and genocide survivor, while Kelvin-Kirk, messy home-life aside, seemed to grow up with a bit more political stability. Prime-Kirk (and Bones and Scotty) might have a higher bar for what's disturbingly harsh in a historical figure. Khan could've been a pretty harsh warlord, yet still be "one of the good ones" in comparison to Kodos the Executioner or Klingon war-parties counting coup at Starbase One. Kelvin Kirk and Spock might have a higher standard of behavior that they compare Khan to.

 

[Zarm]

Prime Kirk was also a war veteran (not just likely from DSC/SNW, but it's also implied by his discussion of being on planets under Klingon occupation in "Errand of Mercy") and genocide survivor, while Kelvin-Kirk, messy home-life aside, seemed to grow up with a bit more political stability. Prime-Kirk (and Bones and Scotty) might have a higher bar for what's disturbingly harsh in a historical figure. Khan could've been a pretty harsh warlord, yet still be "one of the good ones" in comparison to Kodos the Executioner or Klingon war-parties counting coup at Starbase One. Kelvin Kirk and Spock might have a higher standard of behavior that they compare Khan to.

Kelvin Kirk and Spock were also filtering any opinion through a direct assault on Starfleet headquarters, terrorist attack that had claimed numerous Starfleet lives, and the direct murder in front of them of a friend and mentor figure.

That would probably predispose one to interpret historical accounts less generously... (although even Prime Spock seemed quite alarmed at the apparent admiration for Khan...)