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Offline Rat Boy

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You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
« on: September 29, 2005, 03:28:33 pm »
From the TrekBBS

Strangely enough, I always wondered why Khan's people didn't try to perpetuate themselves whilst in isolation.  I guess they did, Paramount's editorial decision notwithstanding.
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Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2005, 03:36:02 am »
I always assumed that most of the children were killed off by Ceti Alpha V's hostile environment/wildlife, and the casualties among the adults eventually led to the survivors being able to procreate only at a very slow rate.

Still...the image on your linked thread seems as if it could be powerful if it'd been played right.  I agree with some of those posters that it's a bit creepy, and that the child's death might've made the movie more depressing than it already was, but somehow I think it might've made things more profound too...something about 'this is what happens when man plays God' or other such.
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Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2005, 08:27:19 am »
Hmm, it is also a bit of the symbolic that is cut out of the film, with the birth of a new planet being symbolized as the baby touches the device?
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Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2005, 10:55:36 am »
That is creepy as hell.
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Re: You learn something new everyday: Khan's spawn
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2005, 04:15:25 pm »
BAH!!! No can do... they realized that they couldn't beam people in a nebula so they nix'd the whole idea. ;D
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