I feel like it’s almost out of character for Khan to actually expect to be checked on. Khan and his people are ostensibly superior. Their assignment was to accomplish amazing shit by themselves.
Fun meme, though.
Uh yeah, totally.
Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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hOUse_atomics@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s still human and has to blame someone, and what Kirk did and Starfleet never checking up on them was super not cool.
hOUse_atomics@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess I’m coming from a place of appreciation for Kirk’s solution to Khan and his people being a true challenge for them to overcome.
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What fucking fun would that have been? If he had gone back to check would have never had the Wrath of Khan. Brilliant move by the writers
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
kaitco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely this won’t come back to bite them all in the ass, right?
…right?
BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You thought this was …Ceti alpha six…
It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.
Ragnell@kbin.social 1 year ago
Does anyone have the blank for this?
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
I just looked and can’t find it. It’s pretty good though
Khorgor666@feddit.de 1 year ago
Dude Starfleet did not even realize a whole planet going AWOL until Khan told them. Explorers my ass.
lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Hot damn how is this so perfect?
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Fair question: why didn’t Kirk check on their progress at least once?
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
He was too busy being suave and fabulous.
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Khan was banished so he couldn’t fairly compete in suaveness and fabulousness.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The OG is the only show I haven’t seen all of, but that’s my kind of captain right there!
I might check it out. I might see me some Janeway, instead.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
I love the original series. Seeing them push boundaries of the 1960s and set the groundwork for the rest of Trek is so entertaining for me.
I feel like I’m pretty good at watching old shows/movies through a lens of the time in which they were made though, which helps a lot here:
-the overacting and stage-like mannerisms -some extra heavy-handed moral lessons -the close up, vaseline on the lens, glamour shots for even woman they meet (and Kirk).
It’s all great.
littlewonder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s pure camp and I love it.
Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
KHAAAANNN!
ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 1 year ago
I remember as a kid, asking my dad when we watched, it only made sense to check regularly on the megalomaniac.
He said, Captain Kirk was a cowboy and could be unprofessional, and not surprising he forgot. I assumed he knowingly meant to leave Khan to die.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
I kind of get the idea that the Federation at the time was just this gigantic shitshow.
Within the Federation, humanity has affectively taken over as the prime species, with the other founding members withdrawing a lot to their home systems. Vulcans are barely there in Starfleet and seemed to be judged a lot by their peers for doing so. Tellarites and Andorians are even less prevalent, making a lot of their service a novelty.
So you’ve got the youngest of the four members leading expansion through their territory and it goes just about as well as you’d think.
ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 1 year ago
You could be right, after a recent rewatch it did seem to devil may-care on ship.
AEsheron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Humanity are the mad scientists of the setting. Sad I couldn’t find the thread alone, this half assed article will have to do.
BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
have we ever even seen a non-human admiral? the president isn’t human but it seems like the entirety of starfleet brass is
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Did he also “conveniently” forget to report to star fleet about it?
ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 1 year ago
That’s what I assumed as a kid.