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126			       SPACE SEED
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WRITER: Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur

GUESTS: Ricardo Montalban (Khan)
	Madlyn Rhue (McGivers?)
	Blaisdell Makee
	Mark Tobin

AIRED:  February 16, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .998
Usenet rating:   .763

QUOTES:
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 - "Irritation?  I am not capable of that emotion"  -Spock
 - "Superior ability breeds superior ambition" --Spock
 - "I am surprised to see you, Captain, though pleased." --Spock


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PLOT:
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The Enterprise runs across  an atomic-powered  sleeper ship  (the SS Botany
Bay, with  transistors)  full  of  supermen  fleeing  their  defeat  in the
Eugenics War  on  Earth  (1993  -  where superior  humans were cross-bred).
McGivers is a Enterprise crewmember skilled in 20th  century Earth history,
who falls in love with Khan and chooses to be banished with him at the end.

FACTS:
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 - The Enterprise was on its way to Starbase 12.
 - Earth used cryogenics through 2018.
 - McCoy gives Khan instructions on how to kill him.
 - When Kirk smashes Khan's glass container, his phaser falls off and McCoy
   keeps looking at it, wondering if they're going to re-shoot the scene!
 - Khan's ship is atomic powered.

OPINIONS:
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Ricardo Mantalban does the best acting job on any trek episode.