It was Scotty who confessed he wasn’t up on Milton.
The “open your heart” scene was basically a rape scene. They couldn’t show it explicitly, but so far as I’m concerned, it’s supposed to represent that Khan subdued her through rape.
I suppose also if you have an historian who studies the past they sometimes overlook flaws in people. You saw that a few years ago when the skeleton of Richard III. There was some woman (Philippa Gregory?) who spearheaded the excavation and when she saw a reconstruction based on his skull said in front of cameras “That isn’t the face of a man who murders his children”. Hello!!!
I understand the Richard III society does valuable research on the era and it is possible someone other than Crookback killed the princes in the tower. But he is prime suspect number one.
There are plenty of mob guys such as Al Capone or Joh Giotti who have a large group of fans.
The scene that is quoted above is pure abusive/manipulative behavior but I suspect the writers in the 60s just thought Khan was just a jerk.
“Please sit and entertain me,” is quite the opening line though. 
ISTM that, regardless of how well you think Montalban embodied the character, he was miscast in this one particular: he was supposed to be an Indian (from India) and AFAICT made little or no attempt to change his usual Mexican accent.
If anyone wants to claim that maybe dIstinctive regional accents have disappeared by the 23rd century, well a) he had some kind of accent, and 2) Chekov? Scotty?
And she’s a doormat. I’d expect Starfleet officers to have a bit more backbone, even egghead historians.
iii ) Khan is from the 1990s.
!!!New!! Koming this Khristmas! The Star Trek[sup]TM[/sup] “Kissy Kissy Khan” aktion figure! Feel the wrath!! Or not!!! 
I made an (unwarranted, probably) assumption, to wit: officer training would require a battery of psychological testing; including Do Not Mutiny the Captain and Risk the Death of the Entire Crew. But then, we are talking TV.
You’d have to roll 39 or 40 on two 20-sided dice to defeat his mojo.
He was genetically modified to be Mexican.
D’oh! But it makes my point even stronger.
What officer training? My theory is that scientists for the most part are direct commission officers in Star Fleet. Look no further than the Pollux IV incident. Their “training” (as opposed to “Regular” Star Fleet officers) is probably a two week seminar to teach them which hand is used for salutes and the difference between a deck and a bulkhead. 
Montalban was the first choice for this role and Roddenberry did not want ethnic casting in his vision of the 23rd Century. But, yeah, it is a bit strange when you consider the role is of a late 20th century character. Although even today you can find people whose names suggest they are from a different place from where they actually are. For example the racer Dario Franchitti. When he started I figured he was from Italy. Nope, born and raised in Scotland, brogue and everything.
Well, that explains his fedora.
When they’re discussing the Eugenics Wars, Khan is said to have ruled 1/4 of the Earth from Asia to the Middle East, so there’s more than just his name that suggests he’s Asian.
… And the attitude toward women in this general culture is … what? :dubious:
Knowing where he’s from, you’re surprised he’s domineering and manipulative toward McGivers?!? :eek:
It was made pretty obvious from the beginning that she was brimming with frustrated female hormones, too. :o
What, you’d expect her to pull out the pepper spray when he comes on to her??? That’s rather, uhm, “naive,” I’d say. :rolleyes:
Considering that back in the day, white American actors were often cast in ethnic roles and made-up appropriately, it’s not all that surprising that Ricardo Montalban, a Mexican by birth, would be cast as a South Asian in 1966.
I wondered about that myself… :dubious: 
:smack:
She had studied him intensively and was infatuated with him.
It became like meeting a legend that she had only dreamed about.
It is like meeting a celebrity that you always admired. They can do no wrong!!!
There is a secondary issue here as well. Some women (not all) want a male who will tell them in no uncertain ways what to do and is to the point.
Without getting into to much detail, some women (not all) have these so called “rape” fantasies where they want to surrender control to someone powerful.
That way (in their subconscious) they are not responsible for their actions.
That is what I think was trying to be shown here.
Considering that the alternative would have been confinement on a penal colony for the Eugenics and a court-martial and imprisonment for McGivers, I’d say they got off pretty lightly. Not only that, but they seemed quite happy to have a world all to themselves that they could reshape in their own image. (Hopefully, there were no sentient beings on the planet already.)
It was decided from the beginning to emphasize that the *Enterprise *operated in a far-flung sector of the Galaxy, and that the captain, like those in the navies of the 18th and 19th centuries, would have broad discretionary powers, being denied the opportunity to check in with his superiors every time a crisis arose. Had that been the case, Kirk would have been nothing but another cog in the machine, and the series would have been nowhere near as interesting.
In this context, his decision to maroon them was both logical and appropriate.
[VOICE OF HOMER SIMPSON]: He took her silence for consent. :o