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In to Darkness was a great movie!

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  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pegasuscic wrote: »
    It didn't bother me at all. Trek fans are simply under the false assumption, due to Ricardo Montelban playing Khan, that Khan is supposedly "Indian". In fact the title/surname Khan is attributed more to Persians/Arabs and to some Mongols(Kubla, Genghis). So if you really wanted to get down to the nitty gritty, Khan being "Indian" was really wrongly portrayed way back in the 60s. He very well could, or maybe even should, have just been an arab or an asian fellow. Even Khan's backstory never said he was from India, until the "out of canon" novels put forth the whole "he's Indian" thing. All TOS had ever established(and JJ Trek never really got around too) was that he was simply a conqueror of Asia to the Arab lands who is from Asia during the Eugenics Wars.

    In Space Seed Lt. McGivers says he is a Sikh. Which probably means that she actually isn't that good at her job since Khan doesn't have a beard, he cuts his hair and doesn't wear a turban (except in her painting of him).
    My Romulan Liberated Borg character made it to Level 30 and beat the (old) Defense of New Romulus with the skill point bug. :D
  • lostcause212lostcause212 Member Posts: 160 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    tlamstrike wrote: »
    In Space Seed Lt. McGivers says he is a Sikh. Which probably means that she actually isn't that good at her job since Khan doesn't have a beard, he cuts his hair and doesn't wear a turban (except in her painting of him).

    That's just a side-effect of the script being written and the production art being done long before casting.
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  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,991 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Awww man, I was sooooo hoping after reading that first sentence that you were going to take that poster to task for completely misspelling Uhura.

    Sorry it was late and I had just gotten back from Into Darkness.

    Probably still jazzed from the movie. :D
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