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Off Topic => Holodeck => Topic started by: Rat Boy on September 29, 2005, 03:28:33 pm

Title: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
Post by: Rat Boy on September 29, 2005, 03:28:33 pm

From the TrekBBS (http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB31&Number=5016268&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=1)

Strangely enough, I always wondered why Khan's people didn't try to perpetuate themselves whilst in isolation.  I guess they did, Paramount's editorial decision notwithstanding.

Title: Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
Post by: Commander La'ra on September 30, 2005, 03:36:02 am

I always assumed that most of the children were killed off by Ceti Alpha V's hostile environment/wildlife, and the casualties among the adults eventually led to the survivors being able to procreate only at a very slow rate.

Still...the image on your linked thread seems as if it could be powerful if it'd been played right.  I agree with some of those posters that it's a bit creepy, and that the child's death might've made the movie more depressing than it already was, but somehow I think it might've made things more profound too...something about 'this is what happens when man plays God' or other such.

Title: Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
Post by: Dash Jones on October 01, 2005, 08:27:19 am

Hmm, it is also a bit of the symbolic that is cut out of the film, with the birth of a new planet being symbolized as the baby touches the device?

Title: Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
Post by: 762_XC on October 05, 2005, 10:55:36 am

That is creepy as hell.

Title: Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
Post by: Capt_Bearslayer_XC on October 05, 2005, 04:15:25 pm

BAH!!! No can do... they realized that they couldn't beam people in a nebula so they nix'd the whole idea. ;D