Re: [OT] The "genetically superior intellect", indeed!

whodunit wrote:
> MarkRRose wrote:
>>
>>
>> The Emmerdale Iron Man wrote:
>>> I was thinking about something in wrath of Khan that has always bugged
>>> me. When khan is monitoring kirk and spocks conversation between the
>>> enterprise and the genesis cave, and spock is giving kirk repair time
>>> estimates and says "If we go by the book captain, hours would seem
like
>>> days". Spock's inflection practically tells that they are talking in
>>> code. He explains it to Kirk over the open channel, for christ's sake!
>>> Kirk and Spock are always going on about what a genius khan is, and he
>>> was supposed to be a big general/ ruler back on Earth. Couldn't he
>>> figure out that Kirk and Spock would have some kind of protected
>>> communication mode or code? Kind of obvious and short sighted for such
a
>>> "genius", don't you think?
>>
>> Well, Kirk did mention how Khan is intelligent, but inexperienced.
>>
>> Mark
>>
> In the movie, Spock explained that Khan might be super-intelligent, but
> he was also 2 dimensional. Kirk thinks on the 3-D level (and beyond),
> that's why he always beats Spock at 3-D chess. ;-)



Are you following me around the 'net!! LOL!  I thought the whole 'Khan 
was less than overly bright' thing in the movie might have been 
explained away by his overwhelming obsession with getting revenge....so 
much so that he lost track of almost everything else!


Mary McK
yep the same one you have known for years!