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by Win Scott
Eckert
In Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country, Captain Spock, who is half-human,
states the following: "An ancestor of mine maintained that
if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however
improbable - must be the truth." Captain Spock is implying
that he is a direct descendant of the Great Detective, Sherlock
Holmes.* If so, then the events of the Star
Trek universe must be a future continuation of the Wold Newton
Universe.
?????? 
I am aware that Vulcans are
incapable of lying, but this statement is contradicted by several
episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Lonely
Among Us," "Elementary, Dear Data," and "Ship
in a Bottle"), wherein it is firmly established that Holmes
and Moriarty are fictional characters in relation to the
"real" Star Trek characters. These two wonderful
universes appear, on the face, to be incompatible.
However,
appearances can be deceiving, and who are we to doubt the
veracity of such a personage as Spock of Vulcan? Star Trek comes
into the fold of the Wold Newton Universe as at least one possible
future timeline. Following are connections from various
books, films, and episodes:
Slaver Weapon - an
animated Star Trek episode, and Alan Dean Foster's adaptation in
Star Trek: Log 10 - reference to Larry Niven's Kzin and
Known Space stories - see Allyn Gibson's The Kzin Question: Reconciling the Kzin with
the Modern Star Trek Universe.
Ishmael by Barbara
Hambly - Doctor Who; The Hokas from Poul Anderson and Gordon R.
Dickson's two books, Earthman's Burden and Hoka!;
Aaron Stemple from the television program Here Come the Brides;
Paladin from the show Have Gun, Will Travel; the
Cartwrights from Bonanza; Struan and Sons from James
Clavell's "Asian Saga."
The Wounded Sky by Diane
Duane - Among the Starfleet ships that greet the Enterprise are
the cutter Ransom and the cruiser Malacandra. Dr.
Ransom and the planet Malacandra (Mars) appeared in the Space
Trilogy by C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra,
and That Hideous Strength.
Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country - The dedication plaque on the
starship U.S.S. Excelsior, NCC 2000, commanded by Captain Hikaru
Sulu, reads, "No matter where you go, there you are." (The
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai).
The Hero of My Own Life,
a Star Trek short story by Peg Robinson in the anthology Strange
New Worlds II. One of the amphishuttles is called the Nautilus,
named after the advanced submarine that was commanded by Captain
Nemo in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Captain's Table 5: Once
Burned by Peter David - Calhoun has a run-in with the
bragging Roman soldier, Captain Miles Gloriosus, from A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which in turn is
based on the plays Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus, and Mostellaria
by Plautus (251-183 B.C.).
Coming of Age (Next
Generation episode) - The status monitor in the shuttle bay
of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D lists one of the shuttles as
the Indiana Jones.
Up the Long Ladder (Next
Generation episode) – a screen displays
information on the S.S. Buckaroo Banzai, captained by John
Worfin. Its mission is listed as Planet 10, Dimension 8. The ship
on which Picard is looking for data is the colony ship S.S. Mariposa;
the Mariposa is powered by yoyodyne pulse fusion (all from
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai).
If Wishes Were Horses - Deep
Space Nine station Commander Ben Sisko owns a trading card of
baseball legend Buck Bokai, who played for the Gotham City Bats
in the early 21st Century (Batman).
Star Trek: First Contact
- One of the ships defending Section 001 against the Borg
incursion is the Starship U.S.S. Thunderchild, named after
H.M.S. Thunderchild, from H.G. Wells' The War of the
Worlds.
The Fall of Terok Nor by
Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Jadzia Dax
makes a statement indicating that pre-First Contact Earth was
subject to numerous visits by the Retuculii, for the purposes of
conducting genetic sampling on humans; the wiping of the memories
of the human test subjects lead to "Missing Time
Syndrome." Perhaps a nod to The X-Files.
The Battle of Betazed, a
Star Trek: The Next Generation novel by Charlotte Douglas
and Susan Kearney - Commander Elias Vaughn's last assignment was
on the U.S.S. Nautilus. Reference to Verne’s 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea.
Preserver by William
Shatner, with Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens -
mentions of frequent visitations to Earth in the late 20th
Century by interfering extraterrestrials, called
"Reticulans." The best course of action is to,
"Trust no one." (References to The X-Files). The
Vulcan psychohistorian, T'Serl, also states that once the
impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth; she cites the originator of said statement as
an ancestor. (Sherlock Holmes).
Relativity (Voyager
episode) - The dedication plaque from the 29th Century Timeship Relativity
reads: "The only reason for time is so everything doesn't
happen at once." (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.)
The Relativity is a Wells-class Timeship. (Named after
writer H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine.)
Gateways 6: Cold Wars by
Peter David - The head of the Starfleet Department for Temporally
Displaced Officers is Admiral Gulliver. (An uncommon name, must
be a reference to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.)
Hands down, the
most references are in writer Greg Cox's Star Trek novels.
The
first is the classic Star Trek novel, Assignment:
Eternity by Greg Cox. He throws in so many '60s spy
references that if I didn't know better, I'd say it was written
by the late David McDaniel of U.N.C.L.E. and The
Prisoner novels fame. At any rate, in this novel, Kirk and
crew again meet the mysterious Gary Seven, a human raised by
aliens and sent back to Earth to fight for the forces of Good,
and Seven's Earth-born assistant, Roberta Lincoln. These two
began working together in the year 1968 in the classic episode Assignment:
Earth and as the novel opens, the year is 1969.
Spock detailing
some of the known adventures of Seven & Lincoln:
"...defeat of the so-called 'cybernaughts' in conjunction
with a pair of British intelligence operatives..." A clear
reference to The Avengers, who are already part of the
Wold Newton Universe.
Seven's office was
attacked by killer robots. Again, the cybernaughts & The
Avengers.
Roberta thinking:
"I bet Mrs. Peel never has to go poking around under the
furniture." In conjunction with above two references, it is
again clear that Roberta met The Avengers.
Roberta recounts
one of Seven's missions, stealing the plans to a robot soldier:
"The Quasar Tapes, or something like that." A reference
to Gene Roddenberry's The Questor Tapes.
Seven thinking:
"All this covert infiltration reminded him of the time he
and Isis had attempted to liberate a former British intelligence
agent from the artificial village where he was being held captive
as part of an elaborate psychological conditioning experiment.
That mission had ended badly, he remembered, primarily because he
had underestimated the forces arrayed against them." A clear
reference to The Prisoner. John Drake (Danger Man /
Secret Agent) would also come in because at least one Prisoner
novel refers to Number 6 and John Drake as one and the same.
Lincoln compares
herself to The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. From this we may
infer that she has met U.N.C.L.E. agent April Dancer. U.N.C.L.E.
is already part of Wold Newton Universe.
Roberta to Kirk:
"Mr. Seven... he works on a strictly need-to-know basis, you
know? James Bond style. For your eyes only and all that. This
tape will self-destruct in five seconds....." Clearly she
has met agent James Bond and has some working knowledge of the
IMF, thus adding Mission: Impossible to the Wold Newton
Universe.
Roberta remembers
the time she and Seven went up against a bald-headed megalomaniac
with a Persian cat. This is an unmistakable reference to Blofeld
of the James Bond movies, which would argue against
inclusion in the Wold Newton Universe, since that universe
incorporates the Bond novel continuity, not the movies.
(Philip José Farmer intended that the novel-version of Bond was
a member of the Wold Newton family). BUT this could be
explained away. Instead of Blofeld, the reference could be to one
Dr. Evil, the nemesis of legendary photographer, musician and
secret agent Austin Powers. This interpretation has several
benefits: it leaves out the movie Blofeld; it leaves the Bond
novel continuity intact; and it adds Austin Powers and a
much-needed dose of humor to the grim Wold Newton Universe.
Shagadelic, Baby!
Art Bollmann
suggests that, "When Spock was talking about the
accomplishments of Seven, he mentioned that he had fought a
number of biological viruses, including 'a spaceborn virus.' I
was wondering if this was enough to smuggle Michael Crichton's Andromeda
Strain into the Wold Newton Universe continuity." I
think the answer is yes.
Fellow Wold Newton
and Star Trek fan Lou Mougin adds the following:
"Roberta Lincoln says, 'Yeah, but there was this other time,
when we were teamed up with this wise guy reporter from
Chicago....' Given the tone of TV show references throughout the
book, can there be little doubt that she's referring to... Carl
Kolchak, aka KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER?? I didn't think
so!"
Finally, William
Simon proposes a solution to the fictionalization of Sherlock
Holmes in the following missive: "Is it not possible that
Sherlock Holmes himself was quite real? After all, the Consulting
Detective DID make more than a few enemies. What better way to
hide than to become a legend in the publications of the time? It
is just possible that the particulars of Holmes and Watson being
real men in real life slipped through the archives of history,
leaving even Data ignorant of the fact that both men actually
lived."
I believe that
William is correct, as this is the method that many Wold
Newtonites chose to conceal their real existence, shrouding their
true exploits under cover of fictionalizations.
2001 Update:
Here are further
references from Greg Cox's novel, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise
and Fall of 
Khan Noonien Singh, Volume One.
Roberta Lincoln
refers to Emma Peel of The Avengers, as well as the
Cybernaughts.
In March 1974, in
East Berlin, Lincoln is attacked by and subdues a man calling
himself "Old Jack." In all probability the being
Lincoln encountered was the Redjac entity (see the episode Wolf
in the Fold).
Lincoln recalls an
encounter with a "robot Bigfoot up north." This is a
reference to the episode of The Six Million Dollar Man
called The Secret of Bigfoot Pass.
Lincoln also
recollects that she and Seven stumbled upon a group of
"robot housewives" in Connecticut, a reference to The
Stepford Wives.
There are also
references to Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein ("Mr.
Eygor"), Modesty Blaise, The Pretender ("Jarod"),
The Equalizer, Beauty and the Beast (the leonine-faced
boy), and The Bionic Woman.
If Maggie Erickson
did marry Walsh after fleeing the eugenics project, she would be
known as Maggie Walsh, providing a strong link to Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
Project Chrysalis
may have evolved into to the Chrysalis Corporation, an
organization that specializes in human rejuvenation, as seen in Knight
Rider 2010.
Since Roberta
Lincoln refers to The Andromeda Strain as a movie, that
must mean that she didn't accompany Seven when he went behind the
scenes during the actual events upon which the movie was based.
See Assignment: Eternity for more information.
2002 Additions:
Here are more
references from Greg Cox's latest novel, The Eugenics Wars:
The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two.
The Indian delegate who wears a large ruby in his
white turban is Hadji from Jonny Quest.
The
mission to Scotland in 1973, which involved the
disappearance of a Scottish policeman, a pagan cult, and human
sacrifice by being burned alive in wicker effigies, is from the
film The Wicker Man.
The
inner hull of Khan's submarine is made out of a unique
impact-absorbing alloy that is only found in one remote and
isolated African kingdom. This is a reference to vibranium
from the remote African kingdom of Wakanda.
There
are also references to recent illegal cloning experiments,
involving everything from human embryos to the Shroud of
Turin. This is from the novel The Children of the Shroud
by fellow Star Trek writer Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
There
is also a reference to Seven and Lincoln shutting down the
Illuminati years ago. Obviously Seven and Lincoln were
not as successful as they thought in shutting down the
Illuminati, given Lara Croft's recent film adventure.
* How did a Holmesian reference get slipped
into Star Trek VI? The screenplay for Star Trek VI
was co-written by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn. Meyer
also directed the film (as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath of
Khan). And Nicholas Meyer is the author of three very good
Sherlock Holmes novels: The Seven Per-Cent Solution, The
West End Horror, and The Canary Trainer (various
publishers over the years). Furthermore, Flinn is the author of
two excellent (and funny) Holmesian novels, San Francisco
Kills and Killer Finish. These novels feature the
adventures of Holmes' grandson, Spencer Holmes, and were both
published by Bantam Books in 1991. Flinn also wrote a Star
Trek novel, The Fearful Summons.
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By John Allen Small
(Copyright © 2000 by John
Allen Small)
Memorandum To: John A. Small,
Executive Director, Small Talk Institute For Apocalyptic
Investigations, Ravia, OK
From: Lt. Col. Stephen Sykes,
Deputy Director, USMF Security Control, Washington D.C.
Date: 28 May 2000
Subject: USMF Security Docket
#270396
Enclosure: One (1) copy of
subject docket
Dear Mr. Small,
At the request of the White
House, and in appreciation for the assistance provided to our
nation by you and your organization during the recent World Crime
League/Millennium/IMF affair, I have hereby been authorized to
forward to you one (1) copy of subject docket. As you might well
expect, the highest possible security classification has been
assigned to this information due to our government's concerns
over public reaction; however, copies of the print-out have been
forwarded to both the Banzai Institute and to Dr. Benton Quest as
well as to yourself.
The information contained
herein was discovered within the memory banks of the Master
Computer at Security Control, Hellenikon AFB, Athens, Greece,
during a routine systems diagnostic check. An investigation was
quickly initiated to attempt to identify the source of the
transmission. To date, however, said message has not been traced
to any known nation, alliance of nations, or organization
currently under surveillance by this agency.
As has been previously
mentioned, certain high-ranking officials within the government
have called for the termination of the investigation; these
individuals have expressed the opinion that the entire affair has
been nothing more than a hoax, and that the so-called
"Hellenikon transmission" was downloaded into the
Master Computer's memory banks as a prank. However, the interest
expressed by such imminent researchers as yourself. Dr. Banzai
and Dr. Quest has convinced the President that this incident
bears further investigation.
I have been instructed to
advise you that, at this point, the President is unable to
confirm or deny the existence of the "secret payload"
on board the shuttle flight which was the subject of a recent
inquiry by yourself and Dr. Banzai. Attempts to locate certain
classified documents regarding the shuttle mission in question
have thus far proved fruitless. However, the President has
authorized a special investigation which is being conducted by a
team of special agents answering directly to the White House; as
you suggested the actual nature of this investigation has been
kept secret even from the agents' superiors, who have been
provided with a cover story regarding clandestine activities at
the heavily guarded compound of a billionaire megalomaniac and
reports of a mystical blues musician living in the mountains of
New Mexico.
On an unrelated subject, the
President has asked me to convey to you his gratitude for
agreeing to hold this July's special summit at Camp David, and
that he is looking forward to finally meeting Dr. Savage and Mr.
Kuryakin in person. He also asked me to inform you that he will
spring for the pizza if you'll remember to bring the Green River.
Please let me know if this
office can be of any further assistance.
Sincerely,
Lt. Col. Stephen Sykes
Deputy Director
USMF Security Control
(The complete text of the
so-called "Hellenikon Transmission" follows:)
INVESTIGATOR'S LOG, STARDATE
48651.7: Agent Lucsly, Department of Temporal Investigations,
reporting.
As per the recent request by
Admiral Tew of Starfleet Command, Agent Dulmur and myself have
utilized the resources available to us through the Department of
Temporal Investigations to finally unravel the full story of the
historical event known as the Eugenics War. To this point, most
of the knowledge we've had regarding this period of earth history
has been derived from the few bits and pieces of fragmented
information that managed to survive World War III and the
turbulent years that immediately followed. It is hoped that the
new information our research has yielded will provide a better
understanding of those times.
Having said this, it is with
some degree of embarrassment that said research seems to indicate
that the Eugenics War may well have been the result of a
Predestination Paradox. What we discovered is that a spacecraft
from our time period, bearing four denizens of the Federation
outpost designated Deep Space Nine three Ferengi and
the shape-shifting Changeling known as Odo - traveled backwards
in time and crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in July of 1947.
United States military representatives there established contact
with the visitors from our era, but the aliens eventually managed
to escape and return to our own time period.
However, the
chronitogravimetric disturbances in subspace caused by the
arrival and departure of the Ferengi shuttle drew additional
unwelcome attention in the form of an unknown race of alien
observers which had already been secretly visiting Earth for
several thousand millennia. When a scout mission was sent to
Earth to investigate the source of the chronitogravimetric
disturbance, the scout team's craft was drawn into the
disturbance and crashed near the same location where the Ferengi
shuttle had landed earlier. When government agents were again
dispatched to investigate, they learned of the aliens' plan of
colonization; a crucial component of the colonization plan was
the utilization of an extraterrestrial virus, which the
government agents assumed would transform humans into a slave
race; in an effort to save themselves, the government agents
began working cooperatively with the aliens in order to gain
access to the virus - in the hopes of secretly developing an
antidote to the alien virus. This action set into motion a
half-century of international plots, denials, and cover-ups that
finally began to unravel during the final years of the 20th
Century.
Efforts to develop this cure
and thus survive the alien colonization yielded several
unanticipated results. One was the establishment of a cloning
program intended to create genetic human/alien hybrids; the other
was the development of an ambitious program which combined
selective breeding with the findings of the Reinstein Project,
the pioneering research into chemically enhancing human physique
and intelligence which had given the world the
"super-soldier" known as Captain America during World
War II. This unscrupulous use of Dr. Reinstein's research
resulted in the birth of a group of genetically engineered
"supermen" (and women). It was this second program that
planted the seeds which would bear not one but two bitter
harvests the first in the 20th Century, and the second in the
23rd.
The youngest of these
"superior humans" were born as early as 1949-50 and had
reached young adulthood by the late 1960s and early 1970s. By
this time, many of these supermen had come to realize that their
superior physical and intellectual abilities had set them apart
from the rest of humanity. Several of these individuals decided
to use their special abilities for the benefit of Mankind; the
majority, however, came to the misguided conclusion that their
superior abilities gave them the right to rule over the rest of
humanity.
To that end, they conspired
throughout the 1970s and 1980s to seize power through the use of
behind-the-scenes manipulation, brute force and "puppet
leaders" who answered only to them. Several of their early
efforts in this direction were defeated by various government
agents and independent crimefighters who ultimately were unaware
of the true masterminds behind the various schemes.
One of these would-be rulers
was Emile Vautrain, a self-proclaimed mystic whose attempt to use
his relationship with the Grandduchess Theresa of Trent to gain
control of that duchy was thwarted through by America's
Impossible Missions Force. Another of these supermen, Ali Sharif,
set himself up as "President-for-Life" of the North
African nation of Kefiristan before being brought down by a group
of soldiers of fortune known collectively as the A-Team in 1973.
Several of Vautrain and Sharif's genetically enhanced brethren
allied themselves with the criminal organization known as THRUSH,
and helped mastermind the hijacking of a nuclear device in the
mid-1980s the first step in a blackmail scheme that was
eventually put to rest by retired U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo
and Illya Kuryakin, who both briefly returned to active duty to
assist in this particular case.
But of all the genetically
enhanced manipulators who rose to power during this period, none
were as ambitious or as ruthless as the man known as Khan Noonien
Singh. Aided and abetted by power-hungry individuals in various
governments, business organizations, and independent agencies who
allowed themselves to fall under his domination, Khan attempted
to gain control of the entire planet; among the numerous
"figurehead rulers" who either answered to Khan or in
some fashion allied themselves with him were Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein, criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan and computer guru
Bill Gates.
Although we were unable to
substantiate this, Khan may well have also become a key player in
the so-called "Syndicate" whose role in the alien
conspiracy had resulted in his birth in the first place. Although
his efforts to become supreme ruler of the planet ultimately
proved unsuccessful, for a brief period of time Khan was indeed
the most powerful man on the face of the Earth. For a period of
four years - from 1992 to 1996 - he was absolute ruler of more
than a quarter of the planet, from South Asia through the Middle
East. He also made some attempts to gain a foothold in America,
mostly through the proliferation of illegal drug use,
indoctrination of the nation's youth into gangs and neo-religious
cults, subliminal advertising messages and other covert forms of
mind control.
In time, however, the United
States and other governments started becoming aware of Khan and
the extent of his power; during this same period, he found
himself the target of rivals who coveted his power. Eventually a
series of battles erupted in certain areas of the world, such as
Haiti, Somalia and Kosovo, which had fallen under Khan's control;
a number of events publicly attributed to various terrorist
organizations were also connected to Khan and his efforts to
maintain power. Meanwhile, other confrontations of a more
diplomatic nature took place in other regions of the globe.
This sequence of events some
of them bloody, others with frightening social and economic
consequences - became known to those few who were aware of the
full story behind those incidents as the Eugenics War. Though the
public-at-large was aware of the majority of such events - such
as the war in Bosnia, America's war on drugs and various
corporate mergers of the period - most never knew that the events
were in fact all related to one another; indeed, many of the
related "battles" of the so-called Eugenics War were in
fact covert operations that the public was kept entirely ignorant
of, and the name of Khan himself was not well-known to the
majority of the planet's inhabitants.
Despite the existence of
fragmented records indicating that he had been "the last of
the tyrants to be overthrown," it should be noted that Khan
had not been truly defeated in the traditional sense of the word.
However, he found his power base eroded with each new
confrontation. Rather than risk the chance of finally succumbing
to those who sought to displace him, he decided to go into
self-imposed exile; in 1997, with the assistance of a small group
of loyal followers who had infiltrated the American government,
Khan and a band of his followers were placed in suspended
animation on the Botany Bay - an experimental "sleeper
ship" designed by NASA in hopes of finally sending explorers
on interplanetary missions in those days before warp drive - and
covertly sent into space during a classified space shuttle
mission.
Aware that their search for an
antidote to the extraterrestrial virus had led to the eugenics
project that had given birth to Khan, and that a certain team of
FBI agents was on the verge of uncovering their involvement in
the alien conspiracy, the members of the Syndicate increased its
efforts to keep knowledge of these projects from becoming public.
Media announcements during this period concerning great strides
in the science of cloning were masterminded by the Syndicate, in
the hopes of preventing the eventual discovery that such
"advances" were in fact almost half a century old by
that point.
Although the majority of Earth
people never knew of Khan and the power he had wielded, his
self-exile proved to be the catalyst for a period that would
later be described as "another Dark Ages." The war in
Chechnya, renewed hostilities between India and Pakistan, a much
publicized controversy concerning the infidelity of an American
President, the breakup of the planet's largest technological
corporation these were just a few of the historical events
which, unbeknownst to most people of the time, were directly
traceable in one way or another to the downfall of Khan and his
decision to flee the planet. It was a period of social upheaval,
economic calamity, and a sense of apathy and disillusionment
brought about by years of lies and distortions by various
governmental agencies a period that culminated in the rise to
power of the infamous Colonel Green and the outbreak of World War
III.
As is now well known, the
Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Enterprise discovered the
long-adrift Botany Bay in 2267 and awakened Khan and his
followers. Once awakened, Khan - with some assistance from
Enterprise crewmember Lt. Marla McGivers - attempted to
commandeer the Enterprise; McGivers, in love with Khan
but still maintaining some degree of loyalty to Starfleet and to
her commanding officer, Captain James T. Kirk, helped Kirk defeat
Khan.
Exercising certain command
perogatives, Kirk dropped all charges against Khan and his
followers when Khan agreed to be exiled to the planet Ceti Alpha
V; rather than face court martial, McGivers chose to stay with
Khan and help him and his followers tame that desolate world. She
and Khan were married shortly after being marooned on Ceti Alpha
V; she and several other members of Khan's group were later
killed by a parasitic eel-like creature indigenous to the planet.
Khan and his surviving
followers were accidentally discovered by a scientific
reconnaissance party from the U.S.S. Reliant in 2285.
His years of exile on the barren world, coupled with his grief
over the loss of his wife, had driven Khan past the brink of
madness; taking advantage of the unexpected opportunity, Khan
took control of the Reliant and set out to take his
revenge on the man whom he blamed for his miseries - James T.
Kirk, who by now had been promoted to the rank of Admiral and was
serving as a staff instructor at Starfleet Academy. Upon
commandeering the Reliant, Khan learned of the existence of
Project Genesis and used this as a means of luring Kirk to a
confrontation. Ransacking the nearby Regula I space laboratory
and killing most of that station's personnel, Khan stole the
experimental Genesis Device.
Following a series of
confrontations with Kirk and the Enterprise, Khan and his
followers were eventually killed when he detonated the Genesis
Device in a desperate bid to finally defeat Kirk. The chain of
events set into motion during Khan's final bid for revenge - the
death and rebirth of Enterprise commander and Kirk's
former first mate, Captain Spock of Vulcan, the creation and
destruction of the so-called Genesis Planet, the confrontation
with a band of renegade Klingons which resulted in the death of
Kirk's son, and the charges filed against Kirk and his crew
following their theft of the Enterprise - have been more
fully described elsewhere and do not bear repeating at this time.
However, it should be noted in closing that, as rash as they
seemed at the time, Kirk's actions during the Genesis affair
ultimately enabled him to save the planet Earth from the effects
of the alien space probe of unknown origin that wrecked havoc on
Earth's ecology in 2286.
In that respect - though he
would never know it, and likely would not have appreciated it if
he had - Khan's final series of ruthless acts ultimately helped
ensure the survival of the planet which he had sought to dominate
so many years before... (Transmission ends here.)
ENDNOTES (for those who care
about such things):
€ The real, true,
super-sensational inside story of the World Crime
League/Millennium/IMF affair has yet to be told. I may get around
to it one of these days... after I've rested up a bit from THIS
one.
€ The reference to the
cover story regarding the "billionaire megalomaniac and
reports of a mystical blues musician living in the mountains of
New Mexico" is a reference to the events depicted in the
novel The Long Sandy Hair Of Neftoon Zamora, written by
singer/songwriter (and former Monkee) Michael Nesmith. I threw
the reference in just for fun. The novel has no WN links that I
can recall (it's been awhile since I read it), but it's such a
wonderful story that I wanted to find some way to tie it in with
our favorite little alternate universe.
€ Green River is one of
the finest soft drinks ever created by man, second only to
Canfield's Swiss Cream Soda. Neither of which, incidentally, I
can find anywhere in Oklahoma... one of the very few things I
miss about having lived near Chicago all those years.
€ Agents Lucsly and Dulmur
are the names of the Temporal Investigations agents seen
interrogation Captain Benjamin Sisko in the Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine episode "Trials And Tribble-ations."
They seemed best suited to reveal this heretofore forgotten
history to the world. [Note from Win Eckert: Incidentally, the
names Lucsly and Dulmer are anagrams of the names of those two
intrepid agents from The X-Files, Mulder and Scully.]
€ In the classic Star Trek
episode "Space Seed," Spock notes that the existing
records concerning the period of the Eugenics War - or
"Eugenics Wars," as he calls it, which he categorizes
as "a strange, violent period in your history" - are
fragmentary; Captain Kirk makes a similar statement during the
same episode, noting that "There are a great many unanswered
questions about those years." Spock at one point even refers
to the Eugenics Wars as Earth's "last World War";
however, as is pointed out in The Star Trek Encyclopedia,
the Eugenics War took place in the 1990s while World War III is
mentioned in several TV episodes (and depicted in the film
Star Trek: First Contact) as having occurred during the
mid-21st Century. It is my conjecture that while the Eugenics War
was not World War III, the origins of that later conflict no
doubt stem from the events of the Eugenics War thus accounting
for Spock's comment, as he no doubt equates the two events in his
mind as having been related to one another.
€ The Ferengi visit is as
depicted in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
"Little Green Men"; the relationship between that
incident and the events depicted in the "Conspiracy"
episodes of The X-Files and in the film The X-Files:
Fight The Future is as explained in Win Eckert's Wold Newton
Chronology. Maybe I'm crazy (I've often suspected so myself), but
this chain of events seemed to me to be the logical source for
all that transpired as explained in this article.
€ The existence of the
cloning program to create human/alien hybrids had been hinted at
in several episodes of The X-Files, and was finally
revealed in the home video release of the film The X-Files:
Fight The Future. The references to the "Reinstein
Project" are based upon the original Timely Comics version
of Captain America in 1941, as well as the Now Comics mini-series
Sting of the Green Hornet and the Dark Horse Comics
mini-series The Case of the Shrieking Skeletons, a
two-issue story teaming Doc Savage and The Shadow.
€ I started to put
together a list of some of these "good supermen," but
decided it might be better to let readers decide for themselves
what heroes of the era might fit into this category. After all,
why should I have all the fun?
€ The comments regarding
Emile Vautrain and the Impossible Missions Force refer to
"The Choice," a 1970 episode of Mission: Impossible.
Vautrain, incidentally, was portrayed by Star Trek's
Leonard Nimoy - a dual role for Nimoy, who was also filling the
regular series role of IMF agent Paris at the time.
€ The A-Team reference is
derived from the novel Operation Desert Sun: The Untold Story
by Charles Heath, the sixth (and, as far as I know, final) book
in a series of novels based on the popular 1980s TV series. While
the earlier books had been novelizations of various TV episodes, Operation
Desert Sun was a tale from the team's early days, taking
place shortly after their escape from the military prison to
which they had been sentenced for a crime they did not commit
(robbing the Bank of Hanoi during the Vietnam War).
€ The case involving
THRUSH's hijacking of a nuclear device is a reference to the TV
reunion movie Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen
Years Later Affair. It was also in this movie that we are
treated to a brief (but timely) encounter with British agent
James Bond.
€ The Saddam Hussein
reference dates back to the earliest version of this article,
which was written at the height of Operation Desert Storm. My
recent re-reading of the novelization of Buckaroo Banzai
- coupled with Chuck Loridans' revelation concerning the mention
of Xan in the two-part Phantom 2040 episode "Dark
Orbit," made a link between Xan and Khan too delicious to
pass up. As for the Bill Gates reference - have you ever had a
hunch that you felt down to the very core of your being that you
just couldn't shake?
€ Some will no doubt argue
that the notion of the Botany Bay being a NASA prototype
is a bit of a stretch. But as I originally wrote in my old Encyclopedia
Galactica article, think about it for a minute haven't
you ever wondered about those so-called "secret
payloads" that go up on the space shuttle from time to time?
€ The Star Trek
Encyclopedia states that the Botany Bay departed
Earth in 1996; however, a print-out I made of a portion of Win's
WN Chronology some time back put the year of Khan's exile as
1997, so that is the year I utilized here.
€ I was going to try to
link the events of David Brin's novel The Postman with
the World War III scenario as set forth in the Star Trek
mythos, since there seemed to be certain similarities in the
post-war societies shown in The Postman and Star
Trek: First Contact. But the dates proved too much out of
synch; Trek's World War III and ensuing post-atomic
holocaust is depicted as having begun in the 2050s and having
lasted into the early 22nd Century, while a letter Gordon reads
in the final pages of The Postman is dated 2012. Oh,
well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
€ The dates given for the
events depicted in the Star Trek trilogy of films - The
Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The
Voyage Home - are taken from The Star Trek Encyclopedia.
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author, John Allen Small. No copying or reproduction of
this article or any portions thereof in any form whatsoever is
permitted without prior written permission and consent of the
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by Win Scott
Eckert
In the 1970s and
'80s, Walter Irwin and G.B. Love published a Star Trek
fanzine called TREK. Throughout TREK's run,
several articles were published with speculations on the
connection between Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, Doc
Savage, and the Wold Newton Family. There were also a few
articles comparing and contrasting James Kirk and Horatio
Hornblower.
While I am unable,
legally, to present the full text of these articles on the Wold
Newton Universe site, I am providing a list of titles and the Best
of TREK volume in which each may be found.
Best of TREK 2:
"A Brief Look at
Kirk's Career" by Leslie Thompson (relates Kirk to
Tarzan, the Lone Ranger, and Doc Savage)
"Kirk and
Hornblower" by G.B. Love
Best of TREK 4:
"A Theory of
Relativity" by Paul Schwartz (Holmes was a Vulcan)
"The Star Trek
Family Tree" by Jaclyn J. Murphy (Wold Newton
relations: Spock is descended from Holmes; Kirk and Uhura
are also Wold Newton Family members)
Best of TREK 8:
"Spock Savage or
the Vulcan of Bronze" by C.J. Nicastro (Doc Savage
was a Vulcan)
"A Note on
Spock" by C.J. Nicastro (Amanda Grayson is descended
from Dick (Robin / Batman II) Grayson, and therefore so
is Spock)
Best of TREK 11:
"A Problem of
Identity: Was Holmes a Vulcan?" by Patricia Dunn
(debunks the Schwartz article from Best of TREK 4)
Best of TREK 15:
"The Man at the
Helm: Captains Kirk and Hornblower" by Mark Alfred
Clearly, many of the theories
presented do not match up with current Wold Newton thought. For
instance, we may conclude with a reasonable degree of certainty
that neither Sherlock Holmes nor Doc Savage was a Vulcan.
However, it is interesting to
note which of the theories are currently accepted in the
Wold Newton Universe. We now know, from Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country, that Spock is indeed descended from
the very human Holmes. And we have generally accepted that Dick
Grayson is also an ancestor of Spock.
In any event, the articles are
"fascinating" for their historical and speculative
significance. Used copies of the Best of TREK series can
still be found in second-hand bookstores. I urge Wold Newton fans
to seek them out and wish them "happy hunting."
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rights reserved. The text of this article is ©
2000-2004 by the author, Win Eckert. No copying or reproduction of this
article or any portions thereof in any form whatsoever is
permitted without prior written permission and consent of the
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will never be seen again!
courtesy of John
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