Star Trek: Khan

Audiobook

English language

Published 2025 by CBS Interactive.

History remembers Khan Noonien Singh as a villain, the product of a failed attempt to perfect humanity through genetic engineering whose quest to avenge himself on Admiral James T. Kirk led to unimaginable tragedy and loss. But the truth has been buried for too long beneath the sands of Ceti Alpha V. How did Khan go from a beneficent tyrant and superhuman visionary with a new world at his fingertips to the monster we think we know so well? Recently unearthed, the rest of Khan’s story will finally be told in STAR TREK: KHAN

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reviewed Star Trek: Khan by Nicholas Meyer

An intetesting take on Khan

This Audiobook was originally released as a podcast. That means each "episode" ended with a full list of producers, voice actors, directors etc.

A full cast audio production told without a dedicated narrator follows the story of one historian who received permission from the Federation to travel to Ceti Alpha V to find what mire we may know about Khan 25 years after his interaction with Kirk. She boards Sulu's Excelsior and is assisted by an ear young Ensign Tuvok.

She finds all the old tapes made by Lt. McGyvors and we learn more than we every thought possible.

I found the original discovery of the Ceti eel disturbing but I might not have if I hadn't been plagued with nightmares of the earworms after seeing Star Trek II as a kid.

All in all, a fine story, some weird while that I could nitpick about, …

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