I remember as a kid, asking my dad when we watched, it only made sense to check regularly on the megalomaniac.
He said, Captain Kirk was a cowboy and could be unprofessional, and not surprising he forgot. I assumed he knowingly meant to leave Khan to die.
I kind of get the idea that the Federation at the time was just this gigantic shitshow.
Within the Federation, humanity has affectively taken over as the prime species, with the other founding members withdrawing a lot to their home systems. Vulcans are barely there in Starfleet and seemed to be judged a lot by their peers for doing so. Tellarites and Andorians are even less prevalent, making a lot of their service a novelty.
So you've got the youngest of the four members leading expansion through their territory and it goes just about as well as you'd think.
You could be right, after a recent rewatch it did seem to devil may-care on ship.
have we ever even seen a non-human admiral? the president isn't human but it seems like the entirety of starfleet brass is
There was a Vulcan Admiral on DS9, so that's at least one. The Federation Presidents seem to be non-Human more often than not though, which makes sense.
Perhaps suggesting humans are the most adventurous/likely of the species in the federation?
maybe, or maybe there's some species ism happening at the upper tiers of starfleet. there are SO many species and people in the lower echelons, it makes no sense for the admirals to be so homogeneous. plus the admirals being bigoted aholes would play into how 99% of the admirals we meet are egotistical douches who seem to be working directly against the very ideals starfleet claims to represent
Humanity are the mad scientists of the setting. Sad I couldn't find the thread alone, this half assed article will have to do.
Did he also "conveniently" forget to report to star fleet about it?
That’s what I assumed as a kid.
Surely this won’t come back to bite them all in the ass, right?
…right?
You thought this was ....Ceti alpha six....
It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.
Does anyone have the blank for this?
I just looked and can't find it. It's pretty good though
Dude Starfleet did not even realize a whole planet going AWOL until Khan told them. Explorers my ass.
Hot damn how is this so perfect?
Fair question: why didn't Kirk check on their progress at least once?
He was too busy being suave and fabulous.
Khan was banished so he couldn't fairly compete in suaveness and fabulousness. 
The OG is the only show I haven't seen all of, but that's my kind of captain right there!
I might check it out. I might see me some Janeway, instead.
I love the original series. Seeing them push boundaries of the 1960s and set the groundwork for the rest of Trek is so entertaining to me.
I feel like I'm pretty good at watching old shows/movies through a lens of the time in which they were made though, which helps a lot here:
the overacting and stage-like mannerisms
some extra heavy-handed moral lessons
the close up, vaseline on the lens, glamour shots for every woman they meet (and Kirk).
It's all great.
It's pure camp and I love it.
KHAAAANNN!
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
