Found a mindblower on Reddit: 'Star Trek: Into Darkness's "Khan" is Gary Seven'

[Bucky]

from (Reddit forum "Daystrom Institute&quot
https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/3f8d6g/star_trek_into_darkness_khan_is_gary_seven/

Star Trek Into Darkness: "Khan" is Gary Seven
by BigTaker

The modern Star Trek films take place in an alternate timeline resulting not only from Nero and Spock's actions in the past, but also due to the Enterprise crew's absence from a number of time-travel events ('Tomorrow is Yesterday.' 'The City on The Edge of Forever', 'Assignment: Earth', and 'Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home'), and subsequent other Starfleet/Federation temporal incidents not taking place, culminating in a noticeably different 20th Century and beyond.

One major change? The "Khan" we see in Star Trek Into Darkness is not Khan Noonien Singh, but is in fact Gary Seven: a genetically-altered, hyper-intelligent human agent of a distant, hidden alien species.

We see from his one episode in the Original Series that Seven possess the ability to resist a Vulcan neck pitch: an ability not shared by the augments in 'Space Seed', but shared by "Khan" in STID. He also displays immense strength and combat training by throwing two security guards away and rattling Spock with one hit. Kirk, a man who defeated Khan (who purported to supposedly possess 5 times an average human’s strength, yet severely lacked the fighting ability necessary to properly utilise it) by himself, declares without doubt afterwards that:

Without our phasers, he would have overpowered all five of us."

Seven also has an aptitude for understanding and using foreign machinery, intuitively being able to use the transporter console. This is likely derived from having been taught knowledge of advanced sciences and technologies by his alien trainers, some of which is beyond Federation capability. Wouldn’t such a mind-controlled be able to more believably upgrade and improve Starfleet defensive, offensive, and propulsion capabilities?

Then there’s the case of the regenerative blood. McCoy can’t make heads nor tails of how it works: a product of 20th Century biological science stumping a 23rd Century Federation doctor? Or the tell-tale sign that an advanced extraterrestrial species altered a human being beyond the abilities of an Khan Noonien Singh-era augment?

A final similarity between both men is their rather cold, internally calculating personality: a far cry from the gregarious, passionate, exceedingly polite Noonien Singh.

The BIG problem, of course, is what specific events lead to Gary Seven replacing Khan Noonien Singh, as well as warping him into a ruthless, cruel individual obsessed with protecting 72 augments. . .

Well, I can’t answer that, but it would make one hell of a story.

I love this so much I practically had a trekgasm.

Of course author misses the obvious answer to his final conundrum: why would Gary Seven replace Khan? Clearly in the NuTrek universe, the Enterprise has not discovered the secret to time travel (which, as the Original Series clearly explained, is achieved by burning a donut around the sun and then throwing the warp gears into reverse). Without any of the Enterprise's hops back into the mid 1900s, Earth history somehow kills off Khan N. Singh (perhaps Edith Keeler advises Hitler to invade Afghanistan, causing Khan's father to be killed off). Thus Seven's main mission becomes to replace Khan, trigger global eugenics wars, and launch out into space in a prototype rocket to await his destiny: Kill McCoy!

As usual, Khan fails. But history is saved.

[yallerdawg]

1. Even more of an obvious problem.

Where's the cat?

[csziggy]

3. In one of the casings, frozen solid?

[Blue_Tires]

2. hmm... Not quite sure what to make of this...

[El Supremo]

4. Star Trek jumped the whale a long time ago.

[Initech]

5. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!