Ceti Alpha V

Commander Chekov and Captain Terrell beam down to what they believe is SETI Alpha-6, only to discover a group of survivors led by Khan Noonien Singh.

Years earlier in the TOS episode Space Seed, Kirk marooned Khan and his genetically engineered disciples on neighboring SETI Alpha 5.

After the destruction of SETI Alpha 6 devastated their planet and killed many of Khan's people, including his wife, Khan has spent years blaming Kirk for their suffering.

Now he has his chance for revenge.

And then things get interesting, as they say.

Oh, yes.

What do you think of the SETI Alpha 5 worm torture of Chekhov and Terrell? That's one of the things that, in fact, the most recent time I watched, I watched this movie a bunch of times in preparation for this talk.

And the last couple of times that that happened.

There's no reason why Terrell on the Reliant would have access to the knowledge.

Dekov might well know what's down there, but again, he knew Ceti Alpha Five.

He sees, "Oh, Ceti Alpha Five is destroyed.

Oh, no problem.

Oh, we're going to Ceti Alpha Six.

No problem." He gets down there.

"What's the date? Oh, no."

Okay.

Yeah.

And it's awesome because it ends with them dropping them off on SETI Alpha 5, like being like, I can't wait to check in on these guys.

I bet they're going to be doing really well in like 100 years.

And then two starts and it's like SETI Alpha 5, 6 got destroyed and it ruined SETI Alpha 5 and now we're all going to die.

Yeah.

yeah but that's the only one that really has an episode that complements it though right

This is what it would look like.

All right, uh, let's check in with the other subplot here, uh, with the Reliant and Ceti Alpha VI or Ceti Alpha V.

So elsewhere in the galaxy, we join the starship Reliant, commanded by Captain Terrell and First Officer Bo- uh, Pavel Chekov, formerly of the Enterprise.

This is Walter Koenig's character.

Like, it's, uh, a godlike power that they're playing with here.

So while the scientists are busy developing the Genesis project bomb, the Reliant has been given, uh, the job to find a suitable planet with no indigenous life forms.

Uh, they come across the planet Ceti Alpha VI, which according to their records is thought to be completely barren.

However, when they scan it, they detect some faint signs of life in only one isolated spot on the surface.

We can fix it now.

How about this? Maybe it was one of those brain eels from SETI Alpha 5.

You've seen Wrath of Khan.

I don't watch your gay shows.

I watch a lot of

gay stuff, but this isn't on my list.

I'm just saying, if there's a brain eel in there from SETI Alpha 5, you certainly wouldn't punish her for anything she might have done while the brain eel was in there.

You'd get that thing out.