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Full Title	Space Seed				Season	ONE
Prod #	24	Aired	16 February, 1967		Stardate	3141.9
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Writer(s):	Gene L. Coon (Co-Teleplay); Carey Wilbur (Co-Teleplay & Story)
Director:	Marc Daniels
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Synopsis:	The Enterprise discovers a sleeper ship from the late 1990s adrift in space. They beam aboard and awaken the leader of the crew, Khan Noonian Singh and bring him back to the Enterprise. Khan turns out to be a genetically engineered criminal; who manages to romance Lt. Marla McGivers and apparently still has evil intentions for Kirk and crew.
Themes & Issues:	Data Coming Soon
Closing Stills:	Data Coming Soon
Featured Races:	Human Vulcan
Equipment/Misc. Objects:	Communicator (classic black base, gold foil flip-up antenna) Desktop Viewer (approx. 10" tube moveable viewer sitting atop desktops) Earpiece Communicator (very short range communicator designed for listening only, fits on the ear, designed to monitor various channels, usually worn by communications officer) PADD (classic black design, touch pad with electronic pen for notes, reports and signatures) Sicbay bio-bed diagnostic display (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Transporter (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Tri-Viewer (triangular shaped unit centered on the briefing room table, sports 3 7" or 8" viewscreens to enable all seated to view) Wall Comm (communicator built into the walls throughout the ship)
Alien Food/Drinks:	Data Coming Soon
Sets/Locations:	Data Coming Soon
Flaws/ Nitpics:	Mis-Spoken Terms Data Coming Soon Story Flaws Data Coming Soon Uniform Flaws Data Coming Soon Editing Flaws Data Coming Soon
Miscellaneous Keywords:	Data Coming Soon
Cast:	Series' Regulars Captain James T. Kirk -  William Shatner Commander Spock -  Leonard Nimoy Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy -  DeForest Kelley Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott -  James Doohan Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu -  George Takei Lieutenant Nyoto Uhura -  Nichelle Nichols Semi-Regulars Lieutenant Kyle -  John Winston Guest Cast Kahn Noonian Singh -  Ricardo Montalban Lieutenant Marla McGivers -  Madlyn Rhue Joaquin -  Mark Tobin Lieutenant Spinelli -  Blaisdell Makee Crew Woman -  Kathy Ahart Crewman Harrison -  Unseen Crewman Tooley -  Unseen
Editorial:	S pace Seed was instrumental in showing the dangers genetic engineering and what can happen if it's taken too far. A topic with which they've started to cover extensively on Deep Space Nine, starting with the fifth season episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume. Back to this episode though, Kahn is portrayed as a man who had had all of his senses and abilities enhanced through genetic mutation. He was a leader of a race of "supermen"; and he ruled with the same conviction and charisma of notorious dictators such as Hitler. As this episode shows, with the all the genetic enhancements and engineering, these "supermen" felt far too superior to work and live among "ordinary" people; they had to rule and prove their superiority on a daily basis. After spending months watching all 79 episodes, writer Harve Bennett finally decided to use this episode as the basis for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, in which we learn that the wife Khan takes in this episode, Lieutenant Marla McGivers (sounds like "McGuyvers") passed away some time after their exile. Another interesting note, is that writers Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur foresaw that we might conceivably have "suspended animation" technology, not to mention genetic engineering, and be sending up sleeper ships of people into space by the mid-1990s, as they set the date of Kahn's launch for sometime in the year 1996. Well we're past that now. (Source for background information on "Space Seed": The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman)