Review of "Star Trek: Khan," by Mike Johnson et. al.

 Review of

Star Trek: Khan, by Mike Johnson et. al. ISBN 9781613778951

 

Five out of five stars

 

How Khan was created and “nurtured”

 

 It is a truism that the greatest heroes are made by going against strong villains. Those villains must exude an aura of power, capability and have the genuine opportunity to win the fight. In the Star Trek universe, there has never been a better villain than Khan. His power was magnified by the superior performances by the two actors that played Khan, Ricardo Montalban and Benedict Cumberbatch.

 This graphic novel develops the history of Khan from his early days as a destitute child on the streets of New Delhi, through his participation in the program where he and others were turned into modified superbeings, to the time where those superbeings carved out empires to the time where they turned on each other in a cataclysmic war.

Within the confines of the science fiction world, the events of how Khan came into existence and was turned into a powerful and unreliable weapon named John Harrison are plausible. While the science of DNA modification is extended beyond what is likely possible, it is not unreasonably so.

 This is a great graphic novel. It expands previous stories featuring Khan in the Star Trek universe and does so without going way out in a scientifically and culturally implausible manner.