É uma criança aleatória, de acordo com Nicholas Meyer
O historiador John Tenuto da Trek afirma que falou com Nicholas Meyer ao descobrir uma fotografia no set do 'bebê Khan'. Tenuto afirma que o escritor / diretor Meyer diz que o bebê não era de Khan , mas mostra que o pessoal de Khan é capaz de se reproduzir
John: I got a whole slew of new ones [photographs], and I just finished cleaning them and getting them ready and now I'm going to start cataloging them. One of the things that is in here is the 'Khan baby'.
Larry: Oh! Do you know why it was taken out?
John: Yeah, there had been a magazine many years ago that had published a photograph, a very grainy picture of a baby by the Genesis torpedo. And the story in the magazine said that basically, [Larry interupts], yeah, but it was a baby by the torpedo this was a baby by the torpedo as it was detonating. So the idea was, this was Khan's baby, that was sort of what the theme was, right? So, but you're right Larry, there were babies there.
So, I have these photographs, and there are pictures of Nicholas Meyer holding this kid, and he looks, he's got the Khan clothes on, you know, it's not exactly Khan's outfit, but it's Khan's people's clothes, you know? And it's a costume for sure. And then the second cameraman is there, he's trying to film this kid crawling by the torpedo as it's going to detonate, right? So, the original idea was that they were going to basically show a baby, a toddler, by the Genesis torpedo as it explodes. Which would have been horrifically dark. But of course, it's the implication, right? If they have babies on board, they're gonna die on the Reliant. That's the idea. So I have all these, these pictures of them trying to film this moment. So I asked Mr. Meyer about this. So, what happened was, the idea was to show, it's not Khan's kid. It was just to show that Khan's people were reproducing. And he just said the idea just, it didn't work. The idea didn't work. The moment didn't work."
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