Nicholas Meyer’s Secret ‘Star Trek’ Series May Be A ‘Wrath Of Khan’ Reboot
We may see Khan in the flesh yet again. The genetically engineered baddie may appear in a rumored spin-off series ofStar Trek: Discovery, one thatStar Trek II: Wrath of KhandirectorNicholas Meyeris attached to.
Reports have surfaced that Meyer’s secretStar Trekproject is aWrath of Khanreboot miniseries, depicting Khan in his exile beforeWrath of Khantook place. Or, this could all be hearsay and we were all…khanned. Get it? No, okay.
Meyer has been attached toStar Trek: Discoveryas a consulting producer and writer, but recently teased that chronology ofDiscoveryhas opened doors for many otherTrekstories.
“One thing that has nothing to do withDiscoveryis that I am working on anotherStar Trekproject, but I can’t discuss that either,” he told TrekMovie (viaio9) cryptically in June. This spawned a flurry of rumors about what Meyer’s secretStar Trekproject could be, but it wasn’t until this week that we got a sense of what it was. Geek Exchangeclaimedit was told by two sources that the project is a miniseries about Khan Noonien Singh, one of the Enterprise’s most famous antagonists.
When asked about the mysteriousStar Trekproject he was involved with, Meyer toldInverse, “I Khannot possibly comment.”
Excellent pun aside, Meyer’s response all but confirms that the project is centered around Khan, or at least tangentially related to him.
According to Geek Exchange, the miniseries would explore what Khan was up to during in his exile on Ceti Alpha V after the events of the 1966Star Trekepisode “Space Seed” and before the events of 1982’sThe Wrath of Khan.Khan’s origins have been frequently explored in novels, comics, and even the newStar Trek Into Darknessfilm withBenedict Cumberbatchplaying the hyperintelligent superhuman. Greg Cox explored Khan’s backstory inThe Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, and IDW Comics dived into the events of Meyer’s reported miniseries in 2011’sRuling in Hell.
Cumberbatch’s performance as Khan, as well asInto Darknessitself, was not well-received, so I wouldn’t put it past Meyer to take another stab at the character that he helped make famous. It would also give Meyer a chance to cast a young Khan as a person of color — which Cumberbatch was notably not. Cumberbatch’s casting made sense in relation to the twist reveal, but not in terms of the character’s name nor original actor Ricardo Montalban’s ethnicity as a Mexican actor.
