Star Trek TOS S1 E22 Review

There'll only be one episode to review today, but as I mentioned yesterday, this episode is quite important to the future of Star Trek, especially for the story of Captain Kirk.

The episode is called Space Seed, and it focuses on the Enterprise encountering a derelict space vessel from the 1990s, (yeah, that aged well), called the Botany Bay. Exploring the vessel reveals that it is filled with a bunch of people from that time, which was known for a third world war that was focused on eugenics, and one of the people onboard wakes up. This man is named Khan, and yes, he is exactly the Khan you think he is. Specifically, he is Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically altered superhuman who attempts to take over the ship, hoping to establish a new dictatorship with his similarly altered followers.

While this episode does feel clunky today, Ricardo Montalban plays the role with fantastic precision. He makes out Khan to not be just a strong character, but intensely smart as well, and through this episode, you can see that Kirk basically wins because of Khan's pride, otherwise Khan would have ended Kirk easily. I'd say the episode is worth a watch just to see Montalban's fantastic performance.

Overall, this episode seems like a pretty typical TOS episode with a fantastic villain, but I can assure you that Khan's story is not quite over yet. Keep an eye open for his return in future stories.

Next time, we watch two planets play at bizarre wargames, and unfortunately, Kirk has to be in the middle of the issue. Look out next time when I review A Taste of Armageddon.

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