ST Fanfic: Obliteration

[goldvermilion87]

Obliteration
“...personally responsible for over eight thousand deaths and implicated in tens of thousands more...”He could still remember every nuance of the government official’s voice, reading the statement on live television

Comments

[goldvermilion87]

Thank you very much!

[litlover12]

Chilling indeed!

[capt_facepalm]

Poor misunderstood Khan. It's about time someone wrote from his point-of-view. The man just wants to take pride in his work. Is that too much to ask?

[goldvermilion87]

Sometimes it is.

[dreamflower02]

A very shuddersome look into his mind. How many in RL seek their immortality in bloody infamy?

[goldvermilion87]

Khan is superhuman -- emphasis on the human!

Thank you for reviewing!

[gardnerhill]

I'm old-school Trekkie. Ricardo Montalban was Khan. Period.

[goldvermilion87]

I accept them both, depending of which movie I'm watching. :-P

(I have to say, though, that I have a problem with Montalban!Khan when he starts going all Ahab/Satan in TWOK. I always feel like he didn't earn the right to do it. On the other hand, ever since I watched The Reichenbach Fall, I have wanted Cumberbatch to play Ahab when he gets older, and I would definitely have bought it if he had said "For hate's sake I spit my dying breath at thee." I'm pretty much crushed that he didn't.)

They're very different, but I hope this drabble works for either.

[gardnerhill]

BC's a good actor. But he should NOT have been cast to play a man named Khan Noonian Singh, whose origin was in India. I can't separate my appreciation of Ben's acting ability with the racism involved in his casting - any more than I can "appreciate" the cinematography and amazing film-making techniques in Birth of a Nation.

[goldvermilion87]

Ricardo Montalban was far from Indian as well. You can't expect realism of any kind from Star Trek.