{"id":178,"date":"2014-01-12T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mixlit\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-12-14T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:20:57","slug":"khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mixlit\/khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan Noonien Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"spaceseed\"<\/a>Character:\u00a0<\/strong>Khan Noonien Singh\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Source Text:<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0\u201cSpace Seed.\u201d Star Trek: The Original Series<\/i>. Writ. Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber. Dir. Mark Daniels. NBC. 1967.<\/p>\n

Entry Author: <\/strong>Emma Baker<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Perhaps the most memorable or well-known villain of Star Trek: The Original Series<\/i>, Khan Noonien Singh is a genetically engineered and selectively bred man intended to possess superhuman powers, both physical and mental. Also known as an \u201caugment,\u201d Khan results from an experiment enacted by several scientists on Earth during the 1990s. However, these scientists did not account for the idea that, \u201csuperior ability breeds superior ambition,\u201d (\u201cSpace Seed\u201d) and many of the augments began to seize control of over 40 different nations. Kirk says on the subject, \u201can improved breed of human. That\u2019s what the Eugenics War was all about.\u201d (\u201cSpace Seed\u201d) Khan, who controlled one third of the earth, from Asia to the Middle East, was the \u201cbest of the tyrants,\u201d under his rule there were no massacres, he did not initiate any fights. While Spock found him morally reprehensible and only deserving of scorn, many humans on board expressed an admiration of his strength and abilities while still disapproving of his actions. They consider Khan, \u201cthe best of the tyrants and the most dangerous.\u201d (\u201cSpace Seed\u201d) He attempts to take over the Enterprise with his augmented crew with the intention of finding a new planet to conquer and almost succeeds with the compliance of Lieutenant McGivers, a white woman, who falls in love with him. \u00a0In the end, instead of bringing him to Starfleet, James T. Kirk exiles him and his crew to a planet where they can begin to colonize themselves reflecting the penal colony on Australia, Botany Bay. Later, Khan goes on to be the antagonist of The Wrath of Khan<\/i>, often considered the best Star Trek movie with the cast of the original series.These \u201caugments\u201d were created from a variety of Earth\u2019s ethnic groups. In the episode, \u201cSpace Seed,\u201d Scotty says, \u201cthey\u2019re all mixed types\u2013Western, Mid-European, Latin, Oriental.\u201d (\u201cSpace Seed\u201d) On the first sight of Khan, the historian Lieutenant McGivers suggests he hails, \u201cFrom the Northern India area I\u2019d guess, probably a Sikh,\u201d perhaps in an expression of Orientalist anxieties. Though little textual evidence points toward these augments as of a mixture of several different ethnic groups within each individual, rumors among some fan understanding suggest that Khan himself is a mixture of several races, perhaps the end result if all races were mixed. The concept revolves around the beneficial combination of several different ethnic groups to create superhumans that share the best aspects of all races and culminates in the most prominent of the augments, a man who is not white.As such, Khan\u2019s role both challenges and maintains the status quo. A non-white person presented as the superhuman product of the genetic engineering and selective breeding remains rare even in modern day media. In the 1960s, it was arguably revolutionary. The rumor of not only the inclusion many different ethnic groups in genetic engineering but perhaps the explicit<\/i> mixing also challenges a status quo concerned with historical intents of eugenics movements. Instead of the preservation of a \u201cpure\u201d race revolving around white supremacy, this experiment produced superhumans of all races and the potential of mixed races. Interestingly, the seeds of constructing mixed race as a herald of modernity and a post-race society are recognizable in this interpretation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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