You know who I think the real villain of The Wrath of Khan is?
Carol Marcus.
She used military resources to create and test a device that could obviously be used as a weapon (it was even supposed to be loaded into a torpedo) that was not stored securely enough. And she claimed it was intended only for peaceful uses.
On top of that, she had the Reliant explore the Ceti Alpha system and there had to be Starfleet records that the system was inhabited even if the specific planet wasn’t, making testing the device an inherent risk. Expecting me to believe that there are no lifeless bodies in uninhabited systems is ridiculous.
(Why no one noticed a planet was missing in the Ceti Alpha system is a question I can’t answer.)
She offered Khan a chance to escape his planet, get control of a powerful ship and steal a weapon of mass destruction.
Also, on a more minor note, she didn’t tell David that his father existed and made him hate Starfleet.
My head canon for what happened to Ceti Alpha and Khan is Kirk submitted his captain’s log and Star Fleet classified it out of fear of an unfinished rivalry built up around the conclusion of the Eugenics Wars. The Reliant had no ability to access that information and only had the same stale info on Ceti Alpha that Kirk had a decade prior.
The real villain is the Federation for funding what could easily be a weapon AND hiding details of an exiled war criminal. There are so many skeletons in the Federation closet that with enough radiation it would be a Halloween episode if Section 31 ever became a show.
You know who I think the real villain of The Wrath of Khan is?
Carol Marcus.
She used military resources to create and test a device that could obviously be used as a weapon (it was even supposed to be loaded into a torpedo) that was not stored securely enough. And she claimed it was intended only for peaceful uses.
People tried to find peaceful purposes for nuclear weapons as well. They just didn’t fool themselves that what they were doing was for the good of the world (or the galaxy in Carol Marcus’ case).
On top of that, she had the Reliant explore the Ceti Alpha system and there had to be Starfleet records that the system was inhabited even if the specific planet wasn’t, making testing the device an inherent risk. Expecting me to believe that there are no lifeless bodies in uninhabited systems is ridiculous.
(Why no one noticed a planet was missing in the Ceti Alpha system is a question I can’t answer.)
She offered Khan a chance to escape his planet, get control of a powerful ship and steal a weapon of mass destruction.
Also, on a more minor note, she didn’t tell David that his father existed and made him hate Starfleet.
My head canon for what happened to Ceti Alpha and Khan is Kirk submitted his captain’s log and Star Fleet classified it out of fear of an unfinished rivalry built up around the conclusion of the Eugenics Wars. The Reliant had no ability to access that information and only had the same stale info on Ceti Alpha that Kirk had a decade prior.
The real villain is the Federation for funding what could easily be a weapon AND hiding details of an exiled war criminal. There are so many skeletons in the Federation closet that with enough radiation it would be a Halloween episode if Section 31 ever became a show.