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Star Trek
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| Title: | Space Seed |
| Episode Number: | 23 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 23 |
| Production Number: | 6149-24 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday February 16th, 1967 |
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The Enterprise encounters the SS Botany Bay. She has been in space for centuries, carrying seventy two men and women in suspended animation. Kirk and Spock realize these people are dangerous refugees from Earth's last great war. The result of selective breeding and genetic engineering, these men and women possess superior power and skill... and superior ambition that drives their plans for the modern era. They awaken the group's leader, Khan Noonien Singh, but he quickly takes over the Enterprise and plans to lead a new war of conquest in the 23rd century.
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| Kirk: I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel?
Spock: I fail to understand why it gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
Kirk: An emotional Earth weakness of mine.
| McCoy: The Eugenics Wars.
Spock: Of course--your attempt to improve the race through selective breeding.
McCoy: Now wait a minute. Not our attempt, Mr. Spock--
a group of ambitious scientists. I'm sure you know the type--
devoted to logic, completely unemotional...
| Kirk: Care to join the landing party?
McCoy: Well, if you're actually giving me a choice...
Kirk: I'm not.
| Kirk: Very interesting. You ready (to transport), Bones?
McCoy: No. I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered across space by this gadget.
Kirk: You're an old-fashioned boy, Bones.
| Kirk: So much for my theory. I'm still waiting to hear yours.
Spock: Even a theory requires some facts, Captain. So far... I have none.
Kirk: And that irritates you, Mr. Spock.
Spock: Irritation?
Kirk: Yeah.
Spock: I am not capable of that emotion.
Kirk: My apologies, Mr. Spock.
| Spock: Insufficient facts always invite danger.
| Kirk: If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.
| McCoy: A pity you wasted your life on command, Jim. You'd have made a fair psychologist.
Kirk: Fair?
| McCoy: Well, either choke me or cut my throat. Make up your mind.
Khan: English. I thought I dreamed hearing it. Where am I?
McCoy: You're in bed, holding a knife at your doctor's throat.
Khan: Answer my question!
McCoy: It would be most effective if you would cut the carotid artery, just under the left ear.
Khan: I like a brave man.
| Kirk: They began to battle among themselves.
Spock: Because the scientists overlooked one fact: superior ability breeds superior ambition.
| Khan: (to McGivers) My name is Khan. Please sit and entertain me.
| Khan: All bold men from the past. Richard, Leif Ericson, Napoleon. A hobby of yours, such men? (finds a painting of himself) I am honored. Thank you. But I caution you. Such men dare take what they want.
| Khan: You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second-in-command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.
Kirk: You have a tendency to express ideas in military terms, Mr. Khan. This is a social occasion.
Khan: It has been said that social occasions are only warfare concealed.
| McGivers: I don't know if you're going to like living in our time.
Khan: Then I'll have to remold it to my liking.
McGivers: Please don't...
Khan: Go! Or stay! But do it because it is what you wish to do.
| Scotty: I must confess, gentlemen, I always had a sneaking admiration for this one.
Kirk: He was the best of the tyrants and the most dangerous. They were supermen in a sense. Stronger, braver, certainly more ambitious, more daring.
Spock: Gentlemen, this romanticism about a ruthless dictator is...
Kirk: Mr. Spock, we humans have a streak of barbarism in us.
| Khan: The battle begins again. Only this time it's not a world we win. It's a universe.
| Khan: Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.
| Khan: I should have realized that suffocating together on the bridge would create heroic camaraderie among you.
| Spock: Surprised to see you, Captain, though pleased.
Kirk: I'm a little pleased myself.
| Spock: It would be interesting, Captain, to return to that world in a hundred years and to learn what crop has sprung from the seed you planted today.
Kirk: Yes, Mr. Spock, it would indeed.
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| Scotty and Kyle are the only two people in the transporter room when Kirk, McCoy, and McIvers enter. Kyle is wearing a blue one-piece uniform. Scotty joins the group on the transporter pads, then the camera cuts to a pair of red-sleeved hands with lt. commander braids operating the transporter controls.
| Lieutenant McIvers is wearing the wrong uniform for a science/historian officer (red instead of blue), and has no lieutenant's braids.
| As he suffocates on the bridge, Kirk records commendations for five crewmen (Uhura, Thule, Harrison, Spinelli, and Spock), but he ignores Leslie and Hadley. While one red-shirted crewman is unnamed and could be Thule or Harrison, the other name doesn't match any of the recurring bridge crew.
| Gary Coombs, Shatner's stunt double, looks almost nothing like William Shatner, being noticeably taller and with gray streaks in his hair.
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| Sikhism
Marla McGivers comments that Khan was "probably a Sikh - they were the most fantastic warriors." In fact, Sikhism is a religion. Most of its followers are found in the Punjab region of India, which is located on the western edge of the country more or less south of Kashmir. The word Sikh means approximately "follower" in the Punjabi language. Some Sikhs are excellent fighters, but they are no more a warrior religion than are most other modern forms of worship.
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| What Changed in the Remastered Version
Much of this episode takes place inside the Enterprise, leaving most of the budget for the few exterior shots. This was well spent on CGI versions of the Enterprise, and a very nice CGI upgrade to the SS Botany Bay, improved to look like a ship that had been in space for centuries. Simple edge on shots from the original filming have been replaced with shots from various angles and the SS Botany Bay has been given more realistic three-dimensional relative motion.
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