What if they had made Harrison one of Khan's former Eugenics War Generals in Into Darkness?

[Nerys Myk]

But was born before it. The surgical alterations aren't canon, I don't have to acknowledge them, as far as canon is concerned, an Indian man has suddenly turned while.

And I'm aware the same thing happened in TWOK. But I allow that, since as every True Trek Fan is aware, TWOK is the epitome of perfection.

I hope no one is suggesting Nero's little jaunt through time changed Khan's appearance

 

[M'Sharak]

I hope no one is suggesting Nero's little jaunt through time changed Khan's appearance

No, that's not Nero's fault.

Spoiler

Chekov did it.

 

[The Wormhole]

I hope no one is suggesting Nero's little jaunt through time changed Khan's appearance

Why not? We blame Nero for everything else in these movies.

 

[Ovation]

Why not? We blame Nero for everything else in these movies.

No. The line must be drawn here. No further. (Oops, wrong Trek).

 

[The Wormhole]

No. The line must be drawn here. No further. (Oops, wrong Trek).

I will gladly toss a phaser rifle at a display case containing the models of the ships from the Abrams Trek movies.

 

[Ovation]

I will gladly toss a phaser rifle at a display case containing the models of the ships from the Abrams Trek movies.

Surely only the ones with a registry number beginning with 0.

 

[The Wormhole]

Surely only the ones with a registry number beginning with 0.

The Kelvin will be the one (01?) that gets smashed up and my friend will pick up and tell me about breaking my little ships before I quote Moby Dick, that's for sure.

 

[Ovation]

The Kelvin will be the one (01?) that gets smashed up and my friend will pick up and tell me about breaking my little ships before I quote Moby Dick, that's for sure.

 

[TommyR01D]

I think the whole basis of the film was severely flawed - it was a blatant and deliberate rehash of The Wrath of Khan only with Kirk and Spock reversed, plus all the cerebral subtleties replaced by big dumb action sequences and massive amounts of destruction porn.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Zero chance of it having happened, because the film-makers wanted the name recognition... but I'd have made Cumberbatch Colonel Green. There's something interesting that occurs to me about genetic augments having been something of an arms race, with Green being the West's answer to how to beat Khan in the Middle East. In the decades that follow our winning the Eugenics War, Green becomes a more infamous figure than Khan and through WWIII just as much of a threat to humanity, leading to a wholesale ban on the creation of super soldiers.

Since Peter Weller was cast as Admiral Marcus, he just becomes a descendant of John Fredrick Paxton and it turns out his family had Green on ice all the time.