Khan is now played by blonde, blue-eyed Benedict Cumberbatch, replacing the Mexican Ricardo Montalbán, reinstating the original concept of the character as a kind of Aryan super-man. First introduced in the Star Trek episode “Space Seed”, the similarity between Khan and Kirk was pointed out.
This got me thinking of how I have made a number of references to the Dark Opposite in a number of recent posts, and I wondered if this was part of a current fashion to find an interesting opponent in recent ongoing series seeking to rejuvenate themselves.
