current ST:ID headcanon
May. 27th, 2013 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelspoilers, obvs, for Star Trek Into Darkness...
Okay, so.
Point the first: John Harrison is not Khan. John Harrison is desperately trying to be Khan, because the whole family thing is very true for him, and because the people with life/death power over the crew assume him to be Khan.
(I have many reasons for this.)
Point the second: Some of the Klingon patrol what we saw were actually female warriors, there just is no difference in uniform between them.
(I have nothing for the gender imbalances in Starfleet -- there *were* women in the Plot Device Room of Starfleet Leaders, but only a few; the female helmsman does get a few lines, but they are incidental; Carol mostly serves as Daughter and Gratuitous Underwear Scene Victim; Uhura whiplashes from competent officer to Girlfriend to ... eh, I'm getting off track.)
Point the third: The Star Trek universe is an AU of our own universe, which allows Eugenics Wars in the 1990s
(I rewatched Space Seed for a refresher course on TOS!Khan, and some of it is kind of lolsome:
Kirk: Ha ha, your ship is named after a penal colony! Sweet. But obviously you guys are harmless.
Khan: Please ignore the fact that I threatened the doctor with a knife, I would please like to study the technical manuals for your ship.
Kirk: Of course, you must be interested in catching up on what you missed
Khan: Um. Yes, of course, my interest is purely academic...
Audience: I can see no way this could possibly go wrong.
aaaaand yeah)
Okay, so.
Point the first: John Harrison is not Khan. John Harrison is desperately trying to be Khan, because the whole family thing is very true for him, and because the people with life/death power over the crew assume him to be Khan.
(I have many reasons for this.)
Point the second: Some of the Klingon patrol what we saw were actually female warriors, there just is no difference in uniform between them.
(I have nothing for the gender imbalances in Starfleet -- there *were* women in the Plot Device Room of Starfleet Leaders, but only a few; the female helmsman does get a few lines, but they are incidental; Carol mostly serves as Daughter and Gratuitous Underwear Scene Victim; Uhura whiplashes from competent officer to Girlfriend to ... eh, I'm getting off track.)
Point the third: The Star Trek universe is an AU of our own universe, which allows Eugenics Wars in the 1990s
(I rewatched Space Seed for a refresher course on TOS!Khan, and some of it is kind of lolsome:
Kirk: Ha ha, your ship is named after a penal colony! Sweet. But obviously you guys are harmless.
Khan: Please ignore the fact that I threatened the doctor with a knife, I would please like to study the technical manuals for your ship.
Kirk: Of course, you must be interested in catching up on what you missed
Khan: Um. Yes, of course, my interest is purely academic...
Audience: I can see no way this could possibly go wrong.
aaaaand yeah)