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[modifier] Lignes de dialogue Guerres Eugéniques
- KIRK: An old Earth vessel – similar to the DY-500 class.
- SPOCK: Much older – DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
- SPOCK: ...scanners make out a name – SS Botany Bay.
- KIRK: Then you can check the registry.
- SPOCK: No such vessel listed. Records of that period are fragmentary, however. The mid-1990s was the era of your last so-called world war.
- MCCOY: The Eugenics Wars.
- SPOCK: Of course, your attempt to improve the race through selective breeding.
- MCCOY: Now wait a minute. Not our attempt, Mr. Spock...a group of ambitious scientists. I'm sure you know the type...
- KIRK: 72 alive, a group of people dating back into the 1990s. A discovery of some importance, Mr. Spock.
- SPOCK: There are a great many unanswered questions about those years. A strange, violent period in your history. I find no record what so ever of an SS Botany Bay.
- SPOCK: And why no record of the trip?
- KIRK: Botany Bay? That was the name of a penal colony on the shores of Australia, wasn't it? If they took that name for their vessel...
- SPOCK: If you're suggesting this was a penal deportation vessel, you've arrived at a totally illogical conclusion.
- KIRK: Oh?
- SPOCK: Your Earth was on the verge of a dark ages. Whole populations were being bombed out of existence. A group of criminals could have been dealt with far more efficiently than wasting one of their most advanced spaceships.
- KIRK: Yes. So much for my theory.
- MCCOY: Even as he is now, his heart valve action has twice the power of ours, lung efficiency 50% better.
- KIRK: An improved breed of human. That's what the Eugenics War was all about.
- MCCOY: I'd estimate he could lift us both with one arm. Be interesting to see if his brain matches his body.
- KIRK: What was the exact date of your lift off? We know it was sometime in the early 1990s.
- KIRK: This Khan is not what I expected of a 20th century man.
- SPOCK: I note he's making considerable use of our technical library.
- KIRK: Common courtesy, Mr. Spock. He'll spend the rest of his days in our time. It's only decent to help him catch up. Would you estimate him to be a product of selective breeding?
- SPOCK: There is that possibility, Captain. His age would be correct. In 1993, a group of these young supermen did seize power simultaneously in over 40 nations.
- KIRK: Well, they were hardly supermen. They were aggressive, arrogant. They began to battle among themselves.
- SPOCK: Because the scientists overlooked one fact-- superior ability breeds superior ambition.
- KIRK: Interesting, if true. They created a group of Alexanders, Napoleons.
- SPOCK: I have collected some names and made some counts. By my estimate, there were some 80 or 90 of these young supermen unaccounted for when they were finally defeated.
- KIRK: That fact isn't in the history texts.
- SPOCK: Would you reveal to war-weary populations that some 80 Napoleons might still be alive?
- KIRK: Forgive my curiosity, Mr. Khan, but my officers are anxious to know more about your extraordinary journey.
- SPOCK: And how you managed to keep it out of the history books.
- KHAN: Adventure, Captain. Adventure.
- SPOCK: There was little else left on Earth. There was the war to end tyranny. Many considered that a noble effort.
- KHAN: Tyranny, sir? Or an attempt to unify humanity?
- SPOCK: Unify, sir? Like a team of animals under one whip?
- KHAN: I know something of those years, remember. It was a time of great dreams, great aspiration.
- SPOCK: Under dozens of petty dictatorships.
- KHAN: One man would have ruled eventually, as Rome under Caesar. Think of its accomplishments.
- SPOCK: Then your sympathies were with...
- KHAN: You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second-in-command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.
- KIRK: You have a tendency to express ideas in military terms, Mr. Khan. This is a social occasion.
- KHAN: It has been said that "social occasions" are only warfare concealed. Many prefer it more honest, more open.
- KIRK: You fled. Why? Were you afraid?
- KHAN: I've never been afraid.
- KIRK: But you left at the very time mankind needed courage.
- KHAN: We offered the world order!
- KIRK: We?
- KHAN: Excellent. Excellent. But if you will excuse me, gentlemen and ladies, I grow fatigued again.
- KIRK: Name-- Khan, as we know him today. Name-- Khan Noonien Singh.
- SPOCK: From 1992 through 1996, absolute ruler of more than a quarter of your world; from Asia through the Middle East.
- MCCOY: The last of the tyrants to be overthrown.
- SCOTT: I must confess, gentlemen. I've always held a sneaking admiration for this one.
- KIRK: He was the best of the tyrants and the most dangerous. They were supermen in a sense. Stronger, braver, certainly more ambitious, more daring.
- SPOCK: Gentlemen, this romanticism about a ruthless dictator is...
- KIRK: Mr. Spock, we humans have a streak of barbarism in us. Appalling, but there, nevertheless.
- SCOTT: There were no massacres under his rule.
- SPOCK: And as little freedom.
- MCCOY: No wars until he was attacked.
