(11-08-2022, 12:50 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: When Kirk and Spock are talking about the DY-100, they mention that sleeper ships were needed because of the long travel times between planets. So yes, had they tried to go to Mars when they were overthrown, the colonies there should have had plenty of time to prepare for their arrival.
Actually, all I could find mentioned was that the DY-100 was for interplanetary travel. They don't say anything about it being a sleeper ship, and while they talk about the engines, they never investigated to see what type of engines the ship had. If we're to believe Khan, he says he was once an engineer of sorts. These were supermen who were supposed to have five times the intelligence of humans. It's not out of the realm of possibility that these Augments designed and built a faster engine to get them to Proxima Centauri in less time than the atomic engines of the time. I still don't know how Khan would have trusted himself to stasis during that time, but that's one of the oops issues in this episode.
(11-08-2022, 12:50 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: I don't know what Roddenberry might have been thinking when this episode was made, but considering what he ended up making humanity's future look like by TNG, I would theorize that by Kirk's time humans were so used to living in a peaceful near-utopian society that they reserved all their suspicion and distrust for other species and were even more susceptible to a charismatic human than today's most brainless minions.
Scott, Kirk, and even McCoy speak about admiring Khan, to the point of romanticism, according to Spock. Kirk blames it on a streak of barbarism that all humans have. That's a very weak excuse for admiration.
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