Khan Noonien Singh

"*Almost pure evil, if not for the gnats who cause it!*"
This character, Khan Noonien Singh, in the Unity Force series is *almost* considered to be in the Pure Evil scale, but rejected because of disqualifying flaws.

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## Details

### Occupation

Leader of the Augments (formerly)
Member of the Sinister Six

### Powers / Skills

Genetic augmentation
Super strength
Enhanced healing
Genius intelligence
Enhanced memory
Mastery of strategies
Close-range combat prowess

### Type of Villain

Vengeful Social Darwinist

**Khan Noonien Singh** (or simply, **Khan**) was an extremely intelligent and dangerous superhuman. He was the most prominent of the genetically-engineered Human Augments of the late-20th century Eugenics Wars period on Earth. Khan was considered, by the USS *Enterprise* command crew, over three centuries later, to have been "the best" of them. Reappearing with a cadre of Augment followers in the 23rd century, Khan became a notorious enemy of James T. Kirk.

Khan's existence as an Augment served, as well, as a warning to society of the danger in attempting to create "supermen" through technological means. Ambassador Spock stated that he was the most dangerous adversary the *Enterprise* ever faced.

Khan is set to appear in a Unity Force story as the member of the Sinister Six.

## Personality

Khan was a psychopathic and violent war criminal who would even risk his life to get revenge on his enemies. Khan always tried to maintain an absolute calm demeanor but would snap and yell whenever his ideology was challenged. He was a pure sadist, taking great joy in trapping and stripping Kirk of all that he holds dear and having no qualms about murdering the entire crew of the Enterprise (about four hundred people) if it meant he also killed Kirk. Though Khan was arrogant and hotheaded, he was respectful to those who showed genuine bravery and resourcefulness when confronted by danger as shown with McCoy. Khan was also not stupid and knew that giving away his full name would get him thrown in the brig for war crimes given the vast records of the Eugenics Wars that wouldn't be that hard for the Enterprise crew to discover. Even so, when he was discovered, he revealed himself to be a fascist believing that he gave the world peace and order when he actually brought chaos and destruction. Even in spite of his true nature, Khan was always well spoken and extremely polite even after being arrested. Khan was at his core a pompous bigot who often treated those he considered inferior to him like impotent children to be talked down to as demonstrated when he was confronted by Kirk in his quarters.

By the time of Star Trek II, Khan had gone mad with grief and lost much of his calm demeanor and polite attitude in favour of barely concealed contempt and passive aggressiveness. Although he was somewhat bipolar before being exiled, it was dialed up to 11 when he went mad. In his introductory scene in the movie for example, Khan starts off as dismissive and almost bored before screaming in anger when Chekov pointed out that he was supposed to be on Centi Alpha 5. Unlike most other typical revenge based criminals though, Khan was almost completely calm although his temper often flared up whenever he was losing or someone spoke against him. He was traitorous and merciless but showed intense loyalty to his crew (nearly being brought visibly to tears even after hearing that all but twelve made it) as they did to him since they were stuck alone on Centi Alpha 5 for fifteen years. Khan tolerated even helmsman Joachim questioning him as long as it wasn't open defiance and was more playful questioning.

Khan's biggest fault, however, was his ruthless and single minded way of doing things, being completely overwhelmed since he was used to fighting one on one instead of from any given angle and refusing to abandon Kirk even though he had every chance of leaving and settling down.

## Abilities

* **Genius Level intellect**: Khan's intelligence was incredibly high, making him the perfect strategist. He possessed a very precise memory - he never forgets a face - and was capable of quickly deducing completely correct conclusions based on little-to-no information.
	+ **Master Strategist**: Khan was learned in space combat and strategy, shown throughout The Wrath of Khan.
	+ **Acting**: Khan was able to convince the Enterprise crew that he was a good person until he tried to overthrow them.
* **Enhanced Physiology**: Khan possessed incredible physical and mental attributes, making him physically, mentally and intellectually superior to even the most exceptional of humans:
	+ **Enhanced Strength**: Like all Augments, Khan had superhuman strength far superior to that of any human or even Augment. Khan was able to rip open his locked quarters door with some effort, snap an engineer's neck by lightly pushing his palms against the guy's neck, bend a phaser into a horseshoe shape with ease, lift Checkov right off the ground with one hand and hold him there, and lug around a giant piece of debris with little effort.
	+ **Enhanced Durability**: Like all Augments, Khan could withstand immense amounts of damage with complete ease, shrugging off jumps kicks and punches from Kirk and not getting a scratch on him when the Reliant's bridge took a direct hit from the Enterprise's lasers. It took a direct hit from a proton torpedo to kill him.
	+ **Enhanced Regeneration**: Like all Augments, Khan was engineered with enhanced blood platelets which carried a superior healing factor than humans. As noted by Doctor McCoy in "Space Seed," his regeneration was incredible in allowing him to recover from the two hundred years of cryosleep.
	+ **Hair Styling**: In one of his stranger abilities, Khan was a talented hair stylist as he quickly and easily remodeled McGiver's hair in less than thirty seconds.
* **Expert Combatant**: Khan's augmentations, intelligence and strategic abilities made him an awesome fighter, as he used his brute strength and durability to overwhelm an opponent, but also relies on the overconfidence of his opponents.

## Arsenal

* **Fists**: Although typically unarmed, Khan was an extremely skilled hand to hand combatant able to overwhelm Khan with his bare hands.
* **Knife**: Khan used a knife to threaten Doctor McCoy.

## In the U.F. Series

Khan will appear in a future Unity Force storyline.

Khan is the archenemy of the Star Twinkle Pretty Cures, particularly Lala Hagoromo, largely due to his involvement in his violent planetary crusade against Samaan with his alternate counterpart that led to the planet being almost destroyed.

## Trivia

* Khan is often considered to be the chief villain of *Star Trek*. However, the Klingons are the true villains due to appearing in more episodes and films, especially the final movie with the original cast, The Undiscovered Country.
	+ Despite this, Khan is the most prominent individual antagonist and never redeems himself whereas the Klingons would go on to become allies to the Federation after the events of *Star Trek VI*.
* Khan was selected to be the second *Star Trek* film's villain as the director, Nicholas Meyer, felt the original film lacked a decent villain (given the "main villain" of *Star Trek: The Motion Picture* was V'Ger, a sentient satellite who was not actually evil).
* In the original ending of the Mutara Nebula fight, Khan would have seen the Enterprise warp away as he finally realizes his last act is in vain. For whatever reason, presumably to shift the focus more heavily onto Spock's death, this was mostly excised.
	+ However, this change can still be seen in the final movie as khan, whilst he dies, looks very surprised as he collapses dead despite not having anything to be surprised ahout.
* Khan recognizing Chekov, even saying "I never forget a face." is regarded as a plot hole in the movie since Khan was only seen before this in "Space Seed" (Season 1 Episode 22) but Chekov did not even debut until the first episode of Season 2 "Catspawn".
	+ In fact, Walter Koenig (who played Chekov) has often joked that his character had made Khan wait overly long to use a bathroom on Khan's visit to the Enterprise and that was why Khan remembered his face so well.
* According to Montalban, much of Khan's personality was created by him on the fly. Khan is initially shown as a calm and collected if evil leader of his followers but, given McGivers death between the episode and movie, decided to go off the rails and make him a obsessed psychopath with thinly veiled anger issues.
	+ This seems to have been very intentional given that he fought in the Eugenics Wars. Eugenics was a special form of selective breeding, the concept itself originating with Plato, and while historically present in the UK, Europe, and the progressives in the USA (e.g. Buck v. Bell), positive (i.e. organized and often non-voluntary), eugenics is today most associated with the Nazi regime, whose numerous crimes against humanity shortly resulted in the decline and fall of eugenics as a morally acceptable means of improving the human condition. Ironically, in-universe, the UN International Bioethics Committee in 2015 distinguished between genetic engineering for human improvement from the eugenics of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
* Khan is supposed to be Indian, whereas Ricardo Montalban was of Mexican descent.
* Khan quotes Captain Ahab from Mobey Dick throughout Star Trek II because he was stranded with just three books there for entertainment, one of which being Mobey Dick and him identifying with Ahab's quest for revenge to the point Khan's final words are a paraphrasing of Ahab's.
	+ It is also not a coincidence that the other two books he had were Paradise Lost and King Leer which are stories about the villain seeking revenge.
* "Singh" is a male Sikh surname meaning "lion" which is fitting given Khan's extremely aggressive but loyal (to his men) nature.
	+ It also that it is not a coincidence that Sikh was a monotheistic religion originates in the Punjab section of India and Khan was "born" in Northern India.
* Kirk and Khan never share a physical interaction in *The Wrath of Khan*, only talking to each other through the teleprompter and communicators. This was because William Shatner and Ricardo Montalban never interacted on the set due to Montalban filming Fantasy Island.
	+ In fact, it would not be until Star Trek III's Kruge that Khan and the main antagonist would have a proper fight (since V'ger was a sentient satellite).