Khan and Klingons
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In STII, right before the Reliant ambushes the Enterprise,
Khan quotes a Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
or some such. My question is: How did Khan come by this proverb?
His only previous encounter with the 23rd century was with the
Enterprise 15 years before. He tells Chekov on Ceti Alpha 5 that
he has been marooned so I would think that he had no other contact
with the outside world. Did his wife start quoting alien proverbs
before her death or what?! Did the Reliant have a library file on
nasty sayings? When did he have time to read them? :-)
Any thoughts on this (or does anyone care)?
Joe Barone, {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
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John Ruschmeyer
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> In STII, right before the Reliant ambushes the Enterprise,
>Khan quotes a Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
>or some such. My question is: How did Khan come by this proverb?
>His only previous encounter with the 23rd century was with the
>Enterprise 15 years before.
Ah, yes, but when he was on the Enterprise, he made extensive use of the
ship's library. (How else would he have learned enough to take it over.)
It is likely that a neo-renaissance man such as Kahn would stude more than
just technical journals.
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> Khan quotes a Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
> or some such. My question is: How did Khan come by this proverb?
Don't you remember in Space Seed when he was getting well (I was going
to say convalescing, but cannot spell it...) he sat there speed
reading books, technical manuals, and, I guess, The Klingons' version of
the Little Red Book?
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Herb Chong [DCS]
he had time when he was studying up on the enterprise in sick bay.
since we don't know how fast he could read, he could have read the
entire section on klingon myths, legends, and history, as well as caught
up on 200+ years of gossip :-).
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If anybody remembers "Space Seed", Khan spent quite a while
reading the library tapes of the big E. I remember Kirk
mentioning something like "You've been using our computer quite
extensively."( or something like that ). He'd be bound to stumble
across some Klingon proverbs and trivia of the 23rd century.
Here's something to think about, if old Gentleman Jim hadn't been
so nice and polite to Khan, by letting him read all the library
files, in his first attack at the Enterprise from Reliant, Khan
wouldn't have known "right where to hit us" and might not have
killed Scotty's nephew, Peter Preston.
The reason I'm bringing up Peter's death is that his death may
have affected Scotty's repair ability. If our favorite engineer
was so greif stricken that it slowed down the speed of fixing
the warp engines, thus Spock might not have had to make the
final sacrifice, Kirk wouldn't have had to steal the Enterprise,
David wouldn't have died, and so on ...
I realize that I'm rambling on, but thought that many things could
have been changed if Kirk hadn't shown Khan the library files.
Hmmm, I wonder what could be changed with the Guardian of Forever,
the slingshot effect, and the sort.
Hmmmmmmm.....
Sean Duncan
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Peter Merchant
He read the Enterprise's library computer while he was on the Enterprise
back in Space Seed. He also has a good memory.
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Norman Pritchett
> In STII, right before the Reliant ambushes the Enterprise,
> Khan quotes a Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
> or some such. My question is: How did Khan come by this proverb?
Don't you remember in "Space Seed" when Khan was recuperating he read
through a lot of the ship's library? How do you think he learned to pilot a
starship?
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Stefan K. S. Tucker
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obviously, he learned the proverb when he was rapidly scanning
the Enterprise's library tapes. Remember when Kirk visited him
in sickbay?
Stefan Tucker
Brown University
Dr. Emmanuel Wu
> Khan quotes a Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
> or some such. My question is: How did Khan come by this proverb?
> His only previous encounter with the 23rd century was with the
> Enterprise 15 years before. He tells Chekov on Ceti Alpha 5 that
> he has been marooned so I would think that he had no other contact
> with the outside world. Did his wife start quoting alien proverbs
> before her death or what?! Did the Reliant have a library file on
Actually, all starships have a Stargate/netnews subspace communications
computer feed. And there is a Klingon UNIX system on that network,
such that net.flame contains a huge number of nasty Klingon witticisms,
often posted by that notorious Klingon commander, K'narndt. :-)
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Joaquim Martillo
described as a French proberb.
Yehoyaqim Martillo