11-08-2022, 09:32 AM
(11-07-2022, 02:19 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: In Star Trek's fictional timeline, Earth was sending ships to Mars by the time of the Eugenics Wars. Using contemporary real-life tech, it would take 7-8 months to travel to Mars. That's a lot of air and food to pack for up to 100 people, so a sleeper ship might be a reasonable approach for a transport of that size. DY-100s, both sleeper personnel versions and cargo versions with fewer sleeper compartments, could have been part of the infrastructure that supported those bases. Khan could have repurposed it, or maybe he originally had it configured because he intended to send troops to the Moon and Mars to cement his control over them as well as Earth?
I would assume that Mars was populated with humans by that time, and no doubt warnings went out to the planet anyway that Khan was on the loose. But for that matter, I can't see Khan going to Mars. He's just been defeated. Going there only puts him at odds once again with humans, who are ready for him.
I don't know how he got on this Botany Bay ship, or where it came from. It just seems completely out of character for a man like Khan. If you notice, he doesn't even try to be someone who'd be interested in finding a planet somewhere. He simply tells McGiver he wants to take over the ship. I don't know if he even thought of going to another planet until Kirk approached him with the idea.
I have to say, Kirk and his crew must be the most un-inquisitives that ever manned a Starship. No seems to want to know anything about Khan, but yet everyone seems to want to go out of their way to help him.
Or was this Roddenberry's intent? Khan is supposed to be this mesmerizing human. Is it possible that what we take for just plain stupidity on the part of Kirk and company was really just an Augment showing how well he's able to captivate these humans?
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