Space Seed
“Space Seed” is the twenty-second episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. In the episode, the Enterprise crew encounter a sleeper ship holding selectively bred superpeople from Earth’s past. Their leader, Khan Noonien Singh, attempts to take control of the Enterprise.
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\”Space Seed\” is the twenty-second episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber and directed by Marc Daniels, it first aired on February 16, 1967. In the episode, the Enterprise crew encounter a sleeper ship holding selectively bred superpeople from Earth’s past. Their leader, Khan Noonien Singh, attempts to take control of the Enterprise. The 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan serves as a sequel to this episode. References to \”Space Seed\’ appear in episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Enterprise, and the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. “Space Seed” has been named one of the best episodes of the series by Cinefantastique and IGN. The episode was written by Gene Coon, who also wrote scripts for Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel around the same time. The script changed numerous times during preproduction as producer Bob Justman felt that it would be too expensive to film. The story that became the villain was Erickson, an ordinary criminal who sought to free his gang from Botany Bay, seize his ship and become a pirate. Parts of the story were inspired by the use of penal colonies in the 18th century, and were based on descriptions from the series’ writer’s bible. As a result, several elements of the draft differed from how the best outline of the work was seen by the show’s creator Gene Roddenberry and producer L.A. Coon.
For example, the draft scene where Spock defeats Kirk at chess was seen during the filming of the film parts of the show, and was not included in the final version. The ending of the episode was also changed from the original version to make the story more dramatic and to make it more of a cliff-hanger. It was also the first episode in which the crew of the Enterprise encountered a cargo of 84 humans, 72 of whom are alive in suspended animation after nearly 200 years, the other 12 having perished during the journey. The ship is taken in tow by a tractor beam, and Enterprise sets course for Starbase 12, where the crew meets Khan and his people. Khan is revealed to be a product of 20th-century selective breeding designed to create perfect humans. The genetic superhumans instead became tyrants and conquered more than a third of the planet during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. Kirk exiles them to Ceti Alpha V, a harsh world that he believes would be a perfect place for Khan to \”tame\”. Khan accepts, citing Milton’s Paradise Lost. Instead of a court-martial for McGivers, Kirk allows her to go into exile with Khan. First Officer Spock discovers that their guest is actually Khan Nooniens Singh, who, along with his people, are products of 20st century selective breeding. Khan tells her he means to rule mankind again and needs her help to take over Enterprise.
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