"After Kirk left Khan on Ceti Alpha V, no other starships visited the planet for 15 years... right? But according to the new podcast series Star Trek: Khan, maybe some aliens landed on the planet and hung out for a while. If you've been sleeping on the audio podcast drama that tells the backstory of what happened between "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Khan, the fifth episode, "Imagination's Limits," takes the story in a bold new direction, and in doing so, makes the core"
"By Episode 5, the neighboring planet, Ceti Alpha VI, explodes, which puts all of Ceti Alpha V in danger. This part we've known since 1982. Khan told Chekov that Ceti Alpha VI "exploded six months after we were left here" in The Wrath of Khan. What we didn't know was that at the exact same time, an alien spacecraft crash-landed on Ceti Alpha V."
"In some senses, Star Trek: Khan is a double-flashback. The story is framed in the year 2293, shortly after Captain Kirk was lost on the Enterprise-B, which is roughly a decade after the events of The Wrath of Khan, and almost 30 years after "Space Seed." In the framing story, an academic named Dr. Lear (Sonya Cassidy) has convinced Starfleet to have Captain Sulu (George Takei) and the USS Excelsior warp over to Ceti Alpha V and retrieve a ton"
The Star Trek: Khan podcast frames a backstory spanning 2267 to 2285 within a 2293 retrieval mission led by Captain Sulu to recover lost logs. The audio drama connects the events between "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Khan, revealing that Ceti Alpha VI's explosion coincided with an alien spacecraft crash on Ceti Alpha V. Episode 5 introduces a telepathic species called the Elboreans whose leader, Delmonda, accesses Khan's mind. The arrival of the Elboreans reframes Khan's exile and transforms the conflict into a classic Star Trek moral and ideological clash.
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