Khan at Tarsus IV? (Reboot)

[pixidoxical.livejournal.com]

Just curious if there's any fic out there where Khan was present at the tragedy of Tarsus IV when Jim Kirk was there. It doesn't have to be slash, but if it is I don't care (although that would be more than a little creepy, since Jim was a young teenager then). Basically, I'm looking for fic where maybe Marcus or whoever found Khan earlier in the Reboot, and somehow he winds up on Tarsus IV (because he was sent there to stop Kodos or oversee the rescue or whatever), eventually runs into Jim who's traumatised at this point, from the recent events as well as his abusive and/or neglectful family, and there's bonding and hurt/comfort. I want a Khan who's disgusted by Kodos really, because I see the latter as a pale imitation of what Khan was.

Or, if no such fic exists, how about a canon!Reboot Khan who finds out about what Jim survived on Tarsus IV and is pissed off, empathetic or protective? Slash and non-slash.

Comments

[dreamwind83.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I so want to read this now as well. And if I didn't have so many fics on my plate then I would write it right now!

[pixidoxical.livejournal.com]

Haha! Agreed! I had a very odd dream the other night, and that caused me to wonder if there had been similar ideas already written. I do hope so, I really really would like to see this! I think it's intriguing, and I feel like Khan would be absolutely incandescent with rage.

[dreamwind83.livejournal.com]

Sometimes your dreams are the best inspiration for a fic because it pulls together ideas that may have been locked away during the day. At least that is where I get some of my best ideas.

And I agree. I think Khan would have been beyond raging if he ended up on Tarsus IV and saw what had been done there in the name of Eugenics. In TOS and AOS, Khan never struck me as the kind of character who would harm a child on purpose, or allow such to be done in his name. So I think if he had one there, saw that 4,000 people had been killed, likely a lot of them elderly or prepubescent, I think he would have gone postal and tracked down Kodos and his supporters and taught them what Eugenics was really supposed to be.

Damn. I might have to write a little of this now, even if I don't post it right away.

[pixidoxical.livejournal.com]

Dreams are definitely inspirational! I've had more than one fic come about by events in a dream.

Ha most certainly! I do think Khan is/was a Machiavellian type of ruler, but I do not think he was an irredeemable tyrant. History is written by the victors, and ultimately, Khan and his people were not said victors. I see him as Trek's version of Richard III - that man was actually a good king, the first one to have laws posted in English so ALL his subjects (not just the upper class) could read them. Moreover, Parliament had already declared the his nephews the Princes illegitimate AGES before they went missing, so there was no reason for him to murder them. He did other positive things as well, but he was defeated by his enemies, so all we know of him is the bad. And all rulers are guilty of good and bad things, burden of being a leader. Anyway, Khan, to me, is like that. I don't envision him applauding Kodos, especially once he sees the results on poor Jimmy.

Haha, if you write it, I would love you forever! This has been something on my mind incessantly and I am getting a bit desperate to see it.

[dreamwind83.livejournal.com]

Very certainly agree with you on Khan not being an irredeemable tyrant. Even in TOS they state that "unlike some other nations ruled by Augments, under his rule there were no massacres and no wars of aggression until he was attacked; he was thus among the most admired of the so-called "tyrants" into the 23rd century, being called the "best of the tyrants" by James T. Kirk. " - Memory Alpha

That says a lot right there. If even the victors noted in their history texts that he did not participate in the same atrocities as the others, then you know he couldn't have been truely irredeemable.