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Portrayed by the legendary Ricardo Montalbán, Starship Enterprise in 2267. Once awakened, the charming but cunning Khan wasted little time in trying to take over the ship, only to be foiled by Kirk, whom he developed a grudging respect for. Kirk's solution was to deposit Khan and his people on the uncolonized planet Ceti Alpha V, which they could make into their new home. The Enterprise's historian, Lieutenant Marla McGivers (Madelyn Rue), fell in love with Khan and she ed him on his new conquest.
When producer Harve Bennett took over the Star Trek movie franchise, he watched TOS to familiarize himself with the series and he was struck by Khan, who stood out as a larger-than-life villain with a story cliffhanger worth returning to. Bennett chose Khan as the titular antagonist of best Star Trek movie; Montalbán returned to play the older, more maniacal, bare-chested conqueror, who quoted Moby-Dick as he tried to prove his superiority over Kirk.
For their sequel to their hit 2009 Star Trek reboot, director J.J. Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof, gravitated to Khan as the villain for Star Trek Into Darkness. While much of the movie is about Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) discovering Starfleet iral Marcus (Peter Weller) was secretly trying to militarize Starfleet, the filmmakers grafted Khan into their story as the secret villain and chose to repeat many of the key story beats of Star Trek II.
Benedict Cumberbatch, hot from playing the title role in denied that Khan was in Star Trek Into Darkness in the build-up to the film, which backfired when many fans and critics rejected the swerve and decried the film as a blatant remake of Star Trek II.
Cumberbatch's Khan is meant to be the same character played by Montalbán, only awoken from cryo-sleep 9 years earlier in the Kelvin Timeline. Although his version is obviously Caucasian when the character is believed to be a Sikh (while Montalbán was Mexican), Cumberbatch properly conveyed Khan's calculating malevolence; his version hews closer to the Khan in "Space Seed" than the older, crazed Khan in Star Trek II. Also, it was iral Marcus, not Kirk, who revived Khan; Marcus meant to exploit the genetically augmented warlord's savagery to benefit his vision of a militarized Starfleet. Since Khan is a technical genius, he built weapons for Marcus before he realized the iral would betray him and Khan tried to save his people from Marcus by destroying Starfleet.
Both versions of Khan are superhumanly strong but the key switch Star Trek 4 or a future sequel.