APRIL 13, 2022 - "It would be interesting, Captain, to return to that world in a hundred years and to learn what crop has sprung from the seed you planted today."

So said Spock to Captain Kirk at the end of the Star Trek: The Original Series season one episode, “Space Seed.” The context, of course, is that of Kirk leaving Khan Noonien-Singh and his people on Ceti Alpha V to fend for themselves. Nor did it take a hundred years to find out what happened there, as Kirk and company discovered in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, co-written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. One of the questions that arise is, what happened in between those encounters with Khan? 

While those questions and more have been answered on the literature side of things, in comics from IDW and the novels of Greg Cox, for example, it is a story still left untold on screen. Now that same Nicholas Meyer is saying that this is a story, among the many stories that can be told in the Star Trek universe, that he would still like to tell and has attempted to tell before.

Meyer posted a video on Twitter last week, in which he first reminds his viewers of the back story as seen in “Space Seed.” Then he goes on to say that Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman suggested a three-hour limited series about what happened to Khan in the intervening years between that episode and The Wrath of Khan. Meyer says he wrote the story and “thought it came out pretty good, but then I never heard from anybody again, and it’s just sitting there.”

Judging from many of the replies to Meyers’ post, there are plenty of fans who would also like to see this story told.