I think they either didn't put a lot of though into it, or it's a deliberate mixing like leandraholmes says further down.
Either way it's only there to make him stranger, more threatening, as it really doesn't fit in with any given ethnicity. And it is said in the episode that he ruled a quarter of the world "from Asia to the Middle-East".
Nah, his origins are probably completely different from what was described in TOS. Even in later Star Trek series they stopped mentioning it, IIRC. Or the Star Trek time line is a different from ours.
I think he could be an interesting topic of discussion if people stopped and thought about the character rather than just react emotionally. But as said before, people have forgotten too much about Space Seed, and how different the WoK Khan is, and haven't stopped to analyse what AOS Khan is and represents.
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Date: 2013-05-21 09:42 pm (UTC)Either way it's only there to make him stranger, more threatening, as it really doesn't fit in with any given ethnicity. And it is said in the episode that he ruled a quarter of the world "from Asia to the Middle-East".
Nah, his origins are probably completely different from what was described in TOS. Even in later Star Trek series they stopped mentioning it, IIRC. Or the Star Trek time line is a different from ours.
I think he could be an interesting topic of discussion if people stopped and thought about the character rather than just react emotionally. But as said before, people have forgotten too much about Space Seed, and how different the WoK Khan is, and haven't stopped to analyse what AOS Khan is and represents.