De Star Trek Into Darkness :
Kirk: Why is there a man in that torpedo?
Khan: There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain. I put them there.
Kirk: Who the hell are you?
Khan: A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. But we were condemned as criminals, forced into exile. For centuries we slept, hoping when we awoke things would be different. But as a result of the destruction of Vulcan, your Starfleet began to aggressively search distant quadrants of space. My ship was found adrift. I alone was revived.
Kirk: I looked up John Harrison. Until a year ago, he didn't exist.
Khan: John Harrison was a fiction created the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name is Khan.
Kirk: Why would a Starfleet Admiral ask a three hundred year old frozen man for help?
(aqui, Kirk fez a mesma pergunta que você fez)
Khan: Because I am better.
Kirk: At what?
Khan: Everything. Alexander Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilised threat in a civilised time, and for that he needed a warrior's mind, my mind, to design weapons and warships.
Spock: You are suggesting the Admiral violated every regulation he vowed to uphold simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect.
Khan: He wanted to exploit my savagery. Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mister Spock. You, you can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone? Marcus used me to design weapons, to help him realise his vision of a militarised Starfleet.
Khan tinha uma mente de warrier com criatividade perfeita para construir armas e navios de guerra. E o intelecto superior também significa uma capacidade de aprendizado mais rápida. Sim, Khan poderia ser substituído por outros oficiais da Frota Estelar, se não um, e então mais de um (por exemplo, Spock também poderia ser um grande ativo no projeto, conforme apontado pelo próprio Khan). Mas o grande problema era que o almirante Marcus violaria muitos regulamentos da Frota Estelar. Ele até apagou os torpedos dos registros da Frota Estelar, por exemplo.
Carol: Are the torpedoes in the weapons bay?
Kirk: Loaded and ready to fire. What are they?
Carol: I don't know. That's why I forged my transfer onto your ship to find out why. I do apologise for that. By the way, if I caused you any problems, I am sorry. I'm Carol Marcus.
Kirk: James Kirk.
Carol: Torpedoes. My father gave me access to every program he oversaw, then I heard he was developing these prototype torpedoes. When I went to confront him about it, he wouldn't even see me. That's when I discovered the torpedoes had disappeared from all official records.
Kirk: And then he gave them to me.
Carol: You're much cleverer than your reputation suggests, Captain Kirk.
Kirk: I have a reputation?
Quando o almirante Marcus encontrou Khan, ele acertou o grande prêmio porque ele podia usar sua tripulação congelada para chantageá-lo e fazê-lo cumprir suas ordens de qualquer maneira possível. Não é facilmente possível com outros oficiais da Frota Estelar porque não eram invisíveis do mundo.