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The Eugenics Wars preceded and catalyzed World War III beginning in 2026 and ending in 2053. The Eugenics Wars were also, at times, referred to as World War III. The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, a two volume set of novels written by Greg Cox about the life of the fictional Star Trek character Khan Noonien Singh
The episode "Space Seed" establishes the Eugenics Wars, and has them lasting from 1992 to 1996. The Eugenics Wars are described as a global conflict in which the progeny of a human genetic engineering project, most notably Khan Noonien Singh, established themselves as supermen and attempted world domination. Spock calls them "the last of your ...
Khan makes his introductory appearance as the antagonist in the episode "Space Seed", first broadcast on February 16, 1967.According to the backstory revealed in the episode, Khan is one of a group of genetically engineered superhumans, bred to be free of the usual human mental and physical limitations, who were removed from power after the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. [2]
Both characters appear in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth". These books are mentioned in the Director's Edition DVD of The Wrath of Khan , in an interview contained as one of the extras. Greg Cox explains that the passing of the 1990s in reality required a reinterpretation of the Eugenics Wars that were originally said to take place in ...
A further version of the Eugenics Wars was presented in the Star Trek: Khan comic book mini-series. [64] The Enterprise season four episodes "Borderland", "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments" showed a further group of genetic superpeople produced from embryos produced in the same era as Khan and his crew.
The episode "Assignment: Earth" was originally a television pilot for a proposed series about Gary Seven, who, according to "Assignment: Earth”, is a human from the 24th century undertaking a mission on Earth in 1968, [1] "the only Earth man to survive the transit." His goal in the original series pilot would have been to defeat the Omegans ...
This episode was released in Japan on December 21, 1993 as part of the complete season 3 LaserDisc set, Star Trek: Original Series log.3. [8] A trailer for this and the other episodes was also included, and the episode had English and Japanese audio tracks. [8] The cover script was スター・トレック TVサードシーズン [8]
A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...