Was the Enterprise a training ship or not? I think she was: McCoy was lamenting that Starfleet was not putting an experienced crew back aboard, which is not at all the same as establishing that Starfleet would have been putting a whole new inexperienced crew aboard. His skill in fighting the defensive wars (or wars where he lured his victims to attack first, at any rate) would supposedly be renown, though, or else he wouldn't be the last of the tyrants to be overthrown, but more like one of the first. Supposedly his success in conquering all, and fighting those nice and clean and defensive wars to hold on to what he got?Ĭonquering all would probably be due to his genius in politics or assassination, though, as the other option, offensive warfare, seems precluded by the "no wars until he was attacked" claim. Like a poor marksman, he kept missing the target.
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The world moved on and went back to killing each other with gusto instead of augments a few decades later.Īnd most importantly, whenever he had his hands on a major piece of tech that could help realize his plans, say a nice fresh ship of the line with the ultimate weapon, or a portable long-range transporter, he got stuck in loyalty and revenge issues. And however big a deal he'd been in his timeline's 1990's, he lost. He didn't even change his ship's remote console admin password. And if you need someone to lift people by their convenient spacesuit handle, or giant chunks of debris, Khan is your guy.īut he was not able to adapt to combat in three dimensions, kind of necessary if one is going to conduct warfare in space.
He certainly seems good at inventing things and figuring out other people's inventions. Khan might have been a genius but that doesn't mean his talents were exhibited everywhere. Click to expand.Kirk and Spock had him figured out pretty quickly.