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2003-10-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Christopher Johnson 2003-10-07 3:02:56 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space."

Posted by Steve 2003-10-7 3:13:48 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:13:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 What part of Italy were those Klingons from?

Posted by Fred 2003-10-7 3:17:31 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:17:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sicily, of course.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-7 3:27:50 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:27:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Thats odd - I always thought Klingons came from Uranus

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-10-7 3:29:42 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:29:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't Khan originally from India?

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-10-7 3:30:37 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:30:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Khan controlled a third of Central Asia but they never said where he was really from. His last name was Singh which indicates a Sikh. This is from the series, not the books or any other sources, they might have more details that I'm not about to look for.

Posted by Yank 2003-10-7 3:38:35 PM|| 2003-10-7 3:38:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Accessed Federation historical records via wormhole:

Khan Noonien Singh
One of history's most notorious dictators, Khan Noonien Singh was a genetically-bred human "superman" of Earth's India in the late 20th century who died in the 23rd century amid another "experiment" gone wrong. Rising to power among others of his kind, his ambition helped foment the Eugenics Wars that involved much of Earth's Third World. Finally facing defeat, he and dozens of followers escaped in the S.S. Botany Bay, a DY-100 vessel modified as a sleeper ship which drifted in intersteller space for over two centuries, until it was discovered in 2267 by the U.S.S. Enterprise. With his fellow survivors, Khan attempted to seize that starship but failed, and he and his people were sentenced by Captain Kirk to tame the wild M-Class world of Ceti Alpha V. Among those exiled was Lt. Marla McGivers, an Enterprise historian who fell in love with Khan and initially assisted him; ultimately, though, she refused to betray Kirk and her shipmates in the tyrant's abortive takeover.
On Ceti Alpha V, the band of refugees thought their dream of conquering an entire planet would come true, but six months after being left there, the star system's sixth planet exploded, and the shock wave wreaked havoc on planet V's ecosystem, making it a desert wasteland. In 2285, the embittered Khan commandeered the U.S.S. Reliant and hijacked the top-secret Genesis Device in a plan to exact vengeance against James T. Kirk. Khan failed to defeat his old foe, and died when he detonated the cataclysmic matter-reorganizing terraforming device, annihilating the Reliant.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-7 4:35:26 PM|| 2003-10-7 4:35:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lt. Marla McGivers was a major babe!

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-10-7 4:51:23 PM|| 2003-10-7 4:51:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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