That sounds so like something we might see on “Robot Chicken”.
I thought it was the moon that exploded.
That comes later, ST-VI:TUC and was Praxis
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Of course, the reboot changed up that, as well. Hard to keep up with multiple timelines.
In the novel, Ceti Alpha V was a planet, and Ceti Alpha VI was its moon. (Or maybe the other way around. I never did figure out how Trek writers assigned the Roman numerals.)
I got it already! I already apologized to the nice fellow’s ghost. What do I gotta do? Cut off one of my own studly nips?
What can I say? I was repeating a (plausible!) UL that I read online somewhere. The plausible ones are the worst!
25th Century Ikea stuff.
Sure, you’ll get the tarp. But the instructions will be a mess.
The instructions will be in Andorian
And it will reference slots and other pieces.
For a TARP.
Robot Chicken did one with Kirk Cameron, Bill Shatner, and Ricardo Montalban called “Two Kirks, a Khan, and a Pizza Place.” 
Yeah, and both Gore and Obama won Nobel Prizes. What’s your point? :dubious: 
(Other than there is a God, and He has a warped sense of humor?)
Don’t be too harsh on Vonda McIntyre. At least she did give Sulu his first name, even though it took a decade for it to become canon.
“Mr. Khan, would you wear that shirt to church?”
As for Moidalize’s post and its link, I’ve always agreed. I read one well-written fanfic from Marla McGivers’ point of view, which describes Chekov trying to lead a rescue mission from his own detail on the ship. The group got caught, and Chekov got a whack in the face from Khan for his backtalk, but Chekov laughed in Khan’s face and asked how such a so-called “superior” man couldn’t even keep his temper. For his bravery and ingenuity, he got promoted to bridge detail.
I like the idea that Kirk didn’t rat on Khan at all. He practiced that so-called “cowboy diplomacy,” after all. Genetic modified humans might be able to survive if they were peaceful (like Bashir), but I think they would have been killed ruthlessly if they were seen as a thread. Especially if it’s the guy who started the Eugenics wars that led to the distrust of augments.
Plus, I just like the dramatic potential. Kirk did him a solid, and the thanks he gets is TWOK.
Khan:" ‘Admiral?’ ‘Admiral!’ ‘Admiral’… Never told you how Admiral Kirk sent 70 of us into exile in this barren sandheap, with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us.". they were cargo bays, people.
little late to the thread are we ? Were you caught in the zone?
Of course he’s the most incompetent Captain in Starfleet. Would anyone watch the show “Jed Anderson: Most Competent Captain in Starfleet”?
Every episode would be about the him requesting ships to come haul away the people who tried but utterly failed to take over the ship.
“Starfleet command: this is the USS Pistachio. We have 14 Klingons, 9 Romulans, 6 Andorrans and 23 Space Hippies to be transferred to a prison planet. Also, we have successfully negotiated with the unknowable space entity The Tremendous Omm for the rights to settle colonists on his planet. He said he’ll bake each one a cake for their birthday. We also verified that he means that sincerely and that he’s not going to eat them or anything like that. He’s actually pretty cool. Captain Anderson out.”
I guess. My wife came across this discussion and was telling me about it when I suddenly remembered the cargo bays line and thought I’d help.