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    Rumour alert: "Khan" TV series

    Star Trek: Wrath Of Khan TV series in the works
    Director Nicholas Meyer is plotting a Wrath Of Khan limited TV series, charting Khan Noonien Singh's pre-movie era...

    Rumours that CBS's new Star Trek: Discovery universe will also include various TV spin-off projects appear to be solid.

    Geek Exchange have this week established via their sources that Nicholas Meyer, one of the current Discovery writers and director of 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, is working on bringing a limited series to the small screen, which will document the fallout from Kirk dropping Khan Noonien Singh off on Ceti Alpha V during original series episode 'Space Seed', as he and his followers try to survive long before they're discovered by the U.S.S. Reliant, where the rest of the story began in the movie.

    So far, no other details have emerged regarding the series, but the project is among a host of others that CBS is looking to develop alongside Discovery in the next few years.

    The late Ricardo Montalbán originally played Khan, but Benedict Cumberbatch had a go at making the character his own in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness. It seems incredibly unlikely that Cumberbatch will return to the role at this point, so it looks like we'll see a brand new Khan for the Discovery age.

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    I suppose the Eugenics War is a viable base for a series, might even be appropriate today.
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      #3
      I hope they use Greg Cox's books. Probably won't, but I can still hope.
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        #4
        IMO no one can come even halfway close to Ricardo Montalban in that role...may he RIP

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          #5
          People said the same about Jack Nicholoson about playing The Joker at one time
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          Jelgate is right

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            #6
            Originally posted by mad_gater View Post
            IMO no one can come even halfway close to Ricardo Montalban in that role...may he RIP
            Agreed. Anyone they cast will be a poor 2nd banana behind Ricardo's portrayal. Sometimes it's better to leave well enough alone.

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              #7
              in the Vanguard series of books they put forth that Ceti Alpha VI exploded due to everybody tinkering with Shedai technology.

              That particular premise for Star Trek II always bothered me. I know the sensorsin the 23rd century weren't as advanced as sensors in the 24th century but c'mon.....you can't tell me that they somehow missed a whole planet. Or that people forgot how to count. Seems to me like someone on the USS Reliant should've been like "Hey didn't there used to be 6 planets in this system? Well there are only 5 planets in this system now along with a bunch of debris. I bet we're looking at CA 5 and not CA 6."

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                #8
                This sounds terrible. Wish they just hand over the franchise who actually cares about it and actually want to push it forwards instead of always looking backwards.

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