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I remember as a kid, asking my dad when we watched, it only made sense to check regularly on the megalomaniac.
He said, Captain Kirk was a cowboy and could be unprofessional, and not surprising he forgot. I assumed he knowingly meant to leave Khan to die.
Did he also “conveniently” forget to report to star fleet about it?
That’s what I assumed as a kid.
I feel like it’s almost out of character for Khan to actually expect to be checked on. Khan and his people are ostensibly superior. Their assignment was to accomplish amazing shit by themselves.
Fun meme, though.
He’s still human and has to blame someone, and what Kirk did and Starfleet never checking up on them was super not cool.
I guess I’m coming from a place of appreciation for Kirk’s solution to Khan and his people being a true challenge for them to overcome.
What fucking fun would that have been? If he had gone back to check we would have never had the Wrath of Khan. Brilliant move by the writers
Surely this won’t come back to bite them all in the ass, right?
…right?
Hot damn how is this so perfect?
The OG is the only show I haven’t seen all of, but that’s my kind of captain right there!
I might check it out. I might see me some Janeway, instead.
I love the original series. Seeing them push boundaries of the 1960s and set the groundwork for the rest of Trek is so entertaining to me.
I feel like I’m pretty good at watching old shows/movies through a lens of the time in which they were made though, which helps a lot here:
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the overacting and stage-like mannerisms
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some extra heavy-handed moral lessons
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the close up, vaseline on the lens, glamour shots for every woman they meet (and Kirk).
It’s all great.
It’s pure camp and I love it.
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KHAAAANNN!
