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Dr. Noonian Soong and Khan Noonien Singh (self.startrek)

submitted 9 months ago by negativenull to c/startrek

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I don't think there is a relation to these two, but they do have some similar characteristics (wanting to create better/perfected beings, though in very different ways), on top of their similar names.

Any deep lore/canon that link this two?

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[–] negativenull 2 points 9 months ago

I did read this on Reddit (don't worry, I took a shower afterwards):

The real reason is the charming one- namely that Gene Roddenberry had a friend (a radioman, as I recall) during WWII named Kim Noonien Wanh. Gene lost contact with his friend and apparently had some hope that tossing the name in there would draw the ear to a television and maybe he'd find him again.

It was Korea, not WW2, but the rest is kind of sweet.