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.
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.
You could be right, after a recent rewatch it did seem to devil may-care on ship.
Humanity are the mad scientists of the setting. Sad I couldn't find the thread alone, this half assed article will have to do.
Did he also "conveniently" forget to report to star fleet about it?
That’s what I assumed as a kid.
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.
He's still human and has to blame someone, and what Kirk did and Starfleet never checking up on them was super not cool.
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.
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Surely this won’t come back to bite them all in the ass, right?
…right?
You thought this was ....Ceti alpha six....
It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.
Does anyone have the blank for this?
I just looked and can't find it. It's pretty good though
Dude Starfleet did not even realize a whole planet going AWOL until Khan told them. Explorers my ass.
Fair question: why didn't Kirk check on their progress at least once?
He was too busy being suave and fabulous.
Khan was banished so he couldn't fairly compete in suaveness and fabulousness.
Hot damn how is this so perfect?
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.
I love the original series. Seeing them push boundaries of the 1960s and set the groundwork for the rest of Trek is so entertaining to 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:
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the overacting and stage-like mannerisms
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some extra heavy-handed moral lessons
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the close up, vaseline on the lens, glamour shots for every woman they meet (and Kirk).
It's all great.
It's pure camp and I love it.
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KHAAAANNN!
