I’ll admit, Ricardo Montalban was quite breath-taking back in the day. But I’ve always like the actor who played his son in the movie, Judson Scott. Anyone here agree with me?
Maybe I’m dense, but did they ever specifically state in the movie that Joachim was Khan’s son? It is possible from their ages and the way they interacted, but I don’t remeber it being said. I haven’t read the book, either.
No, not even in the new version. I was watching for that.
It is stated explicitly in the novelization, though, so it’s a good bet that it was part of an earlier draft of the script.
The big problem is that his character’s name Joachim is similar to the Second in commaznd in “Space Seed” Joaquin. Could be he was supposed to be the same character. They really should have tried to match the crews a bit better, everone else was too young to be part of the crew from Space Seed and yet too old to match with the 15 year timeline the Film says passed.