Anything is possible and since Kirk timeline but altered who knows how they met Hmmmmm ?

“And your actor recommendation is excellent.”

Thank you. As I’ve said before, the guy is born to play Khan.

Go into overkill all you want. As a Sikh, your perspective is invaluable. And your actor recommendation is excellent.

same here. Although I do admit I wont be as enthused if they do decide to redo Khan.

Now TWOK is my fav of the Trek movies so I am not keen on a redo or reimagining of one of my favs. I would prefer something different.

I’ll still watch it but I think I would have a bit of disappointed that the new universe was just being wasted.

That’s true. There are also Klingons ;)

Just kidding. Whatever they decide to do with the next movie is fine by me (as long as they do it well, of course).

I know you want him in the next movie but I am hopeful they will do something else. There is a lot more to Star Trek than Khan.

Re: #89

Thank you for your reply. I’ve mentioned this on other threads here, but (without wishing to accidentally give away any spoilers to people who may not have read your Eugenics Wars novels yet) I’d also like to take this opportunity to personally congratulate you for your absolutely superb description of the fast-moving sequence of events resulting in Khan “taking the wrong fork in the road” and finally “going over to the dark side”. It was obviously such a split-second situation which could have gone either way, and for those of us who really are from that background and know the full scale of “the other destination” which Khan was heading for (and everything it symbolises), the depiction of what actually happened was very moving, and made all the more poignant by your brilliantly sensitive writing. “So near and yet so far” is a clichéd choice of words on my part but particularly apt in this case, and the nature of “the other destination” and what happened instead to Khan in his life made this an Othello-style Shakespearean tragedy.

Regarding your handling of the Sikh and Indian material, you didn’t just “get it right”, you “got it perfectly” ;) [Even the fact that the surname of Khan’s mother was ‘Kaur’ rather than ‘Singh’ was a really nice touch]. Not all writers of fiction in general are so enlightened or respectful, by any means. I think that this is comparatively less of an issue with science fiction writers due to the ‘forward-thinking’ nature of the subject matter and also because the writers and readers tend to be more progressive and open-minded; however, this isn’t necessarily the case with historical fiction (which I’m also a fan of). I’ve found that a worrying number of high-profile writers of that genre haven’t done the proper research and in some cases clearly haven’t even had much social contact with the people they’re writing about, resulting in caricatures and pandering to some negative stereotypes; during the past decade some false “War on Terror” analogies have also deliberately been pushed in some of those novels, even if the comparisons are frequently completely inaccurate and sometimes even highly offensive to the people who are actually from the same background as the characters being written about. The fact that you obviously had a far more enlightened and well-informed approach was both refreshing and something I’m very grateful for.

I get the impression that these things are less of an issue in Star Trek because it’s always been very “internationalist” in perspective. In more recent years, I think Ron D. Moore’s input has also played a big part; as I’m sure you know, like yourself he has a considerable amount of accurate knowledge of the Indian subcontinent and some of its neighbouring regions, along with the culture, religions, history etc.

It’s nice to hear that you own all those books about India too ;) There’s an award-winning British historian called William Dalrymple whose books are particularly good if you like reading about that sort of thing. His main interest is Mughal history along with the British colonial era in India, but he’s also something of an expert on India in general along with the Middle East. You can read his profile via his website http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/Pages/Biog.html , and quite a few of his excellent published articles can also be read here http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/Pages/Links.html . I’m sure you’d enjoy visiting India too if you haven’t been there yet; it’s obviously a rapidly-modernising country now but there are still plenty of incredible historical sights to see, especially in Rajasthan, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Amritsar etc. I expect the Golden Temple in Amritsar might have particular resonance for you, given your knowledge & research for the Khan novels :)

Thanks once again for your wonderful books. I hope your writing career continues to go from strength to strength.

A major Indian movie awards event a couple of weeks ago actually featured the Indian actor Hrithik Roshan wearing the same kind of outfit during a short musical stage performance (he’s the actor I’ve been suggesting as Khan — and yes, I promise this is the last time I’ll mention this guy. Probably). It’s basically the same kind of clothes he wore during his award-winning portrayal of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the recent Indian historical epic “Jodhaa-Akbar” I’ve mentioned previously (the background music during his arrival on the stage is from the same film).

After stalking onto the stage in “Akbar mode” he subsequently proceeds to do a short choreographed “sword dancing” routine which is also a modified version of a scene from the film. After that, Hrithik changes his outfit and dances to some modern music from some of his more contemporary Indian films, and he obviously doesn’t speak in the clip, but the first 3 minutes of the video clip should still give you some indication of exactly why I’ve been saying he’d be such a great choice to play Khan in any new ST films. Please do take a couple of minutes out to take a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBXfr-RamZE

Moauvian waoul,

Re: #82

Hello there, good to see you here too (and thank you for the kind words). I’d actually been hesitant about commenting on this thread because I’ve obviously been discussing Khan quite a lot during the past week, and I didn’t want to go into overkill ;)

Anthony, I’m just curious are you in favour of a redo of Khan or would you be more in favor of something new and unique to Trek for Star Trek XII?