Star Trek 2 will not feature Khan

here is the article, I won't paste the whole thing, but here's what was said.

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1) Khan will not be the villain. You would think this would go without saying, but people keep speculating. In fact, my source says that the film won’t be focused on a traditional ‘villain’ type at all. Which leads us to:

2) The story will focus on a classic Trek character. And when I say classic, I mean a character who appeared in season one of the original series, when Gene Roddenberry was in charge.

The character the movie will focus on (according to that anonymous source) is further narrowed down to: Harry Mudd, Trelane, Gary Mitchell, the Talosians, or the Horta.

I don't know who the fuck any of them are, but there's info on the link above. One thing's for sure, though, there will be no KHHHAAAAAAANNNN in Star Trek 2. No KHHHHAAAAAAANNNN at all.

Makes sense. Wrath of Khan only works after the original episode 'Space Seed'. Khan happend some 20 years later. They could do a movie where they find Khan... but he was kind of cool to Kirk in the beginning. Meh.

I hope they don't have generic douche Klingons as the big bad.

Harry Mudd was a comic relief. Silly situations, never a real threat. They could have phasered him at any time.

Trelane and Gary Mitchell were magical or some bullshit. Not sure how far out they want to go.

If they have to borrow a big bad from the OG series... I can't think of anything. Just as long as they don't get stuck on a Nazi planet or an ancient Rome planet. Some lame ass like that.

It's too early to do a time travel story... City on the Edge of Forever was dope though.

Tribbles were stupid.

I have no idea. Hope it doesn't suck.

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No Khan? Isn't that like having Lord of the Rings without Saruman?

Mudd was a career criminal. He was a convicted smuggler and a known con-man. Basically, his reasons for becoming a criminal were that he was trying to escape from a dull life and a nagging wife. He failed in most of his endeavors when the Enterprise crew was concerned and was eventually imprisoned.

Trelane was kind of like Q, possessing incredible superhuman "magical" powers, and spends the episode he's in playing with the crew of the Enterprise but get annoyed because Kirk wont cooperate and at the end the truth is revealed that he is only a child. There is, in fact, some speculation that Trelane was part of the Q Continuum.

Gary Mitchell was a human and an acedemy friend of Kirk. Kirk, as a lieutenant, was first-year cadet Mitchell's instructor and to distract his strick instructor Mitchell sent a "little blonde lab technician" in Kirk's direction who Kirk almost ended up marrying. He almost died for Kirk when he was poisoned by dark spitting rodent on Dimorus. He had some latent telepathic abilities - having shown a high level of ability in sensing telepathy on shore leave with Kirk on Deneb IV - and when assigned to work on the Enterprise and exploring the SS Valiant - a ship that had been lost for 200 years - he came in direct contact with energies that gave him powerful telepathic and tele-kinetic abilities as well as the ability to control energies (such as phasers beams) and become invunerable to them and the ability to manipulate matter (which allowed him to materialize of dematerialize objects or organisms at will). His powers grew with time and they changed his personality. He was eventually killed by Kirk after a female doctor who he gave similiar powers to himself turned on him and weakened him enough to allow Kirk to defeat him.

The Talosians were a race of humanoids with massive craniums who possessed the ability to created incredibly realistic illusions. They were once a technologically advanced race but a nuclear war destroyed most of their race and rendered the surface of thier planet unihabitable so they migrated to live underground and as a result their planet seemed uninhabited. Underground, with no technology and little stimulation, they focused solely on their ability to creat illusions and as their proficiency in this field grew they lost the abilty to use the technology their ancestors left behind became bored and started capturing space travellers. They caused a the SS Columbia to crash on their planet, killing all but one woman who their healed but she was disfigured and, unfamiliar with human anatomy, they used their powers to make her appear as she wanted to. Christopher Pike was later captured by them in an attempt to get him to breed with that woman but discovered a hatred of capitivity that made humans unsuited to their experiments. They refused Pikes offer of trade and mutual understanding but allowed the woman their had healed to remain to retain he illusion of beauty. Pike was later brought to the planet by Spock after Pike's tragic accident so Pike could live his life in the illusion of normalcy. They were a compasionate race.

The Horta were a silicon based lifeform that looked like blobs of lava and lived off of the nutrients they extracted from rocks and spent most of their time tunnelling. They didn't evolve in an oxygen environment but can exist in it for extended periods. They live for 50,000 years and all die at once except one which looks after the eggs left behind until they hatch - the Mother-Horta. During one of these regeneration cycles Federation Colonist on Janos VI, seeing these eggs as little more than useless balls of silicon, began destroying the eggs and the Mother-Horta began sabotaging the colony and killing the colonist. Spock mindmelded with the Mother-Horta and the situation was sorted, the Horta would be left alone in the lower levels and in return they would lead the colonist to choice mineral deposits.

Dont know what they can do with that.

But there is no wrath. Khan was ditched on a planet for 20 years, developed wrath, and it came to a head in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.

In the reboot Trek universe Khan is still in suspended animation aboard his ship floating out in space. Wrath-less.

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They could pop him on the planet next movie, and swing 'round to pick him up in part 4 or 5.

I vote for Trelane. He was the original "Q".

Actually, in one of the weirdo Star Trek book I read (back when I read such rot, none of it was Canon) Q was Trelane's father. He got sent back in time to the beginning of the universe, drifted awhile, did some crazy stuff, and wound up being Trelane's dad. Forget all that junk though.


Trelane would make a good villain.

Is that like Fry in Futurama doing his grandmother and ends up being his own grandfather?

Fry did what?

His own gramma?

They're still saying this, but people aren't buying it. Sounds legit though.

I guess Simon Pegg Tweeted out that Khan isn't the big bad.

I still agree with my comment about. Khan has no 'wrath'. He's just kind of a dick at this point in the timeline.

That being said... who is this guy? Benedict Cumberbatch... white dude. Not physically menacing. No prosthetics or makeup in the flick. Dunno.

Alice Eve is in this one though. Hubba hubba.

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Dude's a great actor, but yeah not very intimidating. He's tall, but not built. Maybe he's going to mess with them mentally? Remember Star Trek movies are supposed to be lengthy, boring and utterly incomprehensible. That's where they went wrong last time. Perhaps they're trying to correct that by making the next movie a hot mess.

Watch "Sherlock", the UK series. Each episode is feature length (hour and a half), so that's a bit of a pain, but the show's solid. And so is Benedict Pennyfeather or whatever his name is.