Khan noonien singh biography

Fictional character from Star Trek

Fictional character

Khan Noonien Singh is a fictional character in the Star Trekscience fiction franchise who first appeared as the main antagonist in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed" (1967), and was portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán, who reprised his role in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, he is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Khan controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.^[1] After being revived from suspended animation in 2267 by the crew of the Starship Enterprise, he attempts to capture the starship but is thwarted by James T. Kirk and exiled to Ceti Alpha V, where he has the chance to create a new society with his people. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, set 15 years after "Space Seed", Khan escapes his exile and sets out to exact revenge on Kirk.

In Star Trek Into Dark

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Multiple realities

(covers upplysning from several alternate timelines)

For the alternate reality counterpart, please see Khan Noonien Singh (alternate reality).

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– Spock, 2259 (Star Trek Into Darkness)

Khan Noonien Singh (or simply Khan) was an extremely intelligent and dangerous superhuman. He was the most prominent of the genetically-engineeredHumanAugments of the Eugenics Wars period on Earth. Khan was considered, by the USS Enterprise command crew, over three centuries later, to have been "the best" of them. Reappearing with a cadre of Augment följare in the 23rd century, Khan became a notorious enemy of James T. Kirk.

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Star Trek: The Legacy of Khan, Explained

Star Trek used Khan Noonien-Singh (Ricardo Montalban) to introduce genetic engineering into the franchise, much to the detriment of those who’ve come after him. They are seen as dangerous because Khan’s ambitions of world domination made him a threat to Starfleet officers. They are seen as untrustworthy because Khan tried to use the kindness of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to make submissive followers out of the Enterprise crew. They are banned from Starfleet because officers fear someone like Khan having access to Federation resources or secrets.

In Deep Space Nine, this judgment doesn’t take into account that genetic alterations sometimes happen to a child too young to refuse them. In Strange New Worlds, it didn’t consider genetic enhancements as a part of cultural practices. In Prodigy, no one imagines how such negative stereotypes could harm a genetically engineered teenager. All anyone seems to focus