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A watercolor painting of the Star Trek character Khan Noonien Singh that appeared in the original series episode "Space Seed" in 1967. (source: Wikia Expert Showcase)

Has Star Trek’s Khan Noonien Singh been “whitewashed”?

May 16, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

When I was a child, the mere singular mention of the word “Sikh” on a television show only strengthened my bond with a science fiction franchise that I maintained through its incarnations in film and television for decades. In 1967, the science fiction television show Star Trek introduced a new character named Khan Noonien Singh, who, according to Wikipedia, is “a genetically engineered superhuman from India who once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars […]

Categories: TV/Movies • Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gene Roddenberry, J J Abrams, Khan Noonien Singh, Marissa Sammy, RaceBending.com, Ricardo Montalban, Star Trek, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: Into the Darkness

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