Star Trek TOS: Episode 22 - SPACE SEED

"The Enterprise discovers an ancient sleeper ship, the SS Botany Bay, which escaped from Earth's Eugenics Wars in the late 20th century. The genetically engineered passengers, led by war criminal Khan Noonien Singh, seize control of the Enterprise and attempt to destroy the ship."

 I like this episode don't get me wrong, but it just didn't have the same effect on me that some of the others have had so far. Maybe I was looking forward to it too much. I must say though this episode has an awful lot of female abuse. Uhura gets smacked around and then there is a disturbing scene between Khan and McGivers in which he plays the role of the abusive husband and she the submissive wife. Ricardo Montalban is very good in this episode, although I think he is missing the idea of meditation ... he does it so violently.

I found it tough to buy the Eugenics War thing happening in the 1990's because well ... it didn't. But, it helps to think of it as a secret history. Anyway, Khan and his frozen pals on the Botany Bay are Augment escapees from the 90's. I assumed he would be wearing a Pearl Jam shirt or something, but he wasn't. Anyway, Kirk and McCoy board the ship along with a fine looking historian named Howard Zinn ... oh wait no, it was Lt. McGivers. So basically she falls in love with Khan, who is very smooth may I add. Eventually Khan tries to take over the ship because he's crazy. Spock remarks that Khan is from the 1990's which was a strange and violent time. Let's see; Lump by The Presidents of The United States of America, Clinton gets a bj and Pacific Blue - yeah the 90's were pretty wild.

Kirk eventually fights him and wins, but in reality Khan would have beat the shit out him. I mean, a second ago he crushed a phaser with his bare hands. So I assume he could have crushed Kirks bones with ease. Anyway they have a trial and Kirk is presiding. Khan is accused of hijacking the ship as well as attempted murder on Kirk and other crew members. So of course the obvious judgment would be to give him his own planet and oh he can take Lt. McGivers as well. If I remember correctly Khan turns his new habitat into some kind of island of fantasies. McGivers dies giving birth to a midget. And then years later that midget hangs himself from a step stool.

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