quote:Terrell: "He blames you for --" Kirk: "I know what he blames me for."
Right. For aborting his dreams of world domination, for stopping him from capturing a starship, for marooning him on an uninhabited planet at the edge of nowhere, with slim odds of survival and none of escape. Plenty of reasons for all this wrath stuff.
Except that Space Seed ends with everyone more or less on good terms- smiles all around- even for Kahn, who got his intended goal of a brave new world to live on and a nice piece of starfleet cutie to go with it.
All Kahn could be expected to "blame" Kirk for was...er....nothing. An innocent Kirk's first response should have been "Kahn?!? What the fuck is your problem?!?"
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Except that this was the "Bad Dude" that came closest to offing him (other than the chick who turned HIM into a woman). When he dropped them off on CA he probably figured he'd never have to deal with him again. Think how long it would take to begin forging the industry needed to produce just basic goods much less start building interstellar spacecraft. At the beginning you can tell Kirk is pretty much a bureaucrat/trainer/display-model. He is involved in projects that are black-ops/top secret. So he's going to check on what's going wrong with a VERY dangerous project and gets sucker-punched by a Starfleet vessel. The next thing he knows, he's facing the dude that ALMOST took his ship years ago and has just crippled it seconds before thanks to a novice move on Kirk's part. All he knows is that Khan is back and looking to finish what he started 15 years ago. I don't think its guilt. I think its "Holy ----! I ain't ready for this. How the #$&*(#$) did he get a Starship?"
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I never agreed with Kirk's decision to leave Kahn and his buddies on Ceti Alpha. I would not have boarded the BB at first but run a background check to see who may have boarded it. If they're were no records, then I would have towed the ship to the nearest Starbase where more analysis could be done and more security precautions could be implemented. If I had an indication that there were some evil supermen aboard, I would have the BB blown to high hell and avoided a real threat to the Federation.
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However, once again Kirk was explicitly where no man had gone before, or at least not for a good many years. He didn't have the luxury of waiting for others to arrive and solve problems for him.
It's Kirk's job to check out derelicts like this. It's his job to deal with security threats the best he sees fit. Captain Cousteau might wish to wait for the police or the military to arrive if he encountered starved pirates. Captain Hornblower would himself be in charge of hanging, marooning, or drafting those pirates.
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