Thank you! I always thought Space Seed Khan was... problematic, to say the least. And I always wonder if people who complain about how Khan hasn't been played by a "man of colour" this time around (though, really, a European with Spanish parents and lots of make-up doesn't make a "man of colour", either) ever consider what it actually means for that character to be portrayed as "non-white".
SS Khan makes me cringe with the stereotypes. WoK Khan is a dangerous but interesting villain. STID Khan is an artificially created monster, used by admiralty. All three are a reflection of the time they were written in, but, really, SS Khan is better left in the past...
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Date: 2013-05-21 12:40 pm (UTC)SS Khan makes me cringe with the stereotypes. WoK Khan is a dangerous but interesting villain. STID Khan is an artificially created monster, used by admiralty.
All three are a reflection of the time they were written in, but, really, SS Khan is better left in the past...