In his immortal portrayal by Ricardo Montalban, Khan has appeared only twice in Star Trek. Khan was introduced in 1967, in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1’s episode, “Space Seed,” and he returned on the big screen in 1982’s
Star Trek: Khan is internally considered official Star Trek canon. Therefore, the events depicted by the podcast are ‘what really happened’ after Khan (Naveen Andrews), his wife Marla McGivers (Wrenn Schmidt), and his genetically augmented followers were stranded on Ceti Alpha V by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the Starship Enterprise.
Star Trek: Khan carefully set up the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but the podcast also introduced characters like a brand-new race of alien psychics called the Elboreans. Most importantly,
and ended with the vengeful supervillain’s death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Thus, Star Trek: Khan needs to be the last Khan story.
Thanks to Star Trek: Khan,
the generically engineered tyrant’s story has been told, and Star Trek can finally move on. Star Trek: Khan was the most in-depth exploration of Khan’s psyche, showing his capacity for love and compassion, yet he continually reverts to his savage base instincts instead of pursuing his better angels.
The most pertinent lingering questions about Khan Noonien Singh have now been answered by Star Trek: Khan, and there’s no need to return to the character. Khan is a closed circle, and
It would be a mistake to attempt more Khan stories, like a prequel of Khan ruling and fleeing Earth during the Eugenics Wars. Khan was a glorious villain who received his long-missing middle act in
Khan became the prototype, and most Star Trek movies after Star Trek II were conceived with a villain in Khan’s mold.
Star Trek II elevated Khan to iconic and legendary status. Undeniably, Ricardo Montalban imbuing Khan with larger-than-life menace permanently changed Star Trek, especially regarding expectations for villains in Star Trek
movies. For better or worse, Khan became the prototype, and most Star Trek movies after Star Trek II were conceived with a villain in Khan’s mold.
Star Trek movies have shamelessly tried to replicate
Khan’s legacy is also perpetuated each time Star Trek tackles the thorny issue of genetic engineering in the United Federation of Planets. Khan is the reason genetic manipulation is banned by the Federation, which impacted the lives of augments like Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romjin) in
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduced Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), a descendant of Khan who lives with the torment of being related to one of the most infamous men who ever lived, despite La’an lacking Khan’s physical traits from her augmented DNA. Khan’s daughter, Kali, is
Star Trek only occasionally deals with the impact Khan left on the Federation, although those episodes, like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
‘ “Ad Astra Per Aspera” and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” tend to be classics. Still, Star Trek mostly evades the thorny issue of how the Federation deals with augments, unless it’s to reaffirm
Earlier this year, Todd Chrisley
received a pardon from the President. However, Patricia Altschul is a tougher sell. Unlike POTUS, this Southern Charm star refuses to absolve Todd of his verbal crimes. Instead, this queen honey bee is standing ten wealthy toes down, adamant that Charleston is not a place for a “felon” like Todd.
Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming. Their tiny tit for tat started after Todd’s release from prison. “During the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it’s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,” Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.
So, recently clapping back via Decider, Pat quipped, “He’s very irrelevant. I said four words—there goes the neighborhood — and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.” Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, “We just don’t need any more felons in Charleston.”
Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.
And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward her in Charleston.
Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.