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	After being named producer for the second "Star Trek" motion picture, Harve Bennett screened all seventy-nine episodes of the classic series to familiarize himself with "Star Trek". After watching this episode, he declared it would be perfect to lead into the second motion picture, and hence, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" was born.
	Ricardo Montalban has the distinction of playing one of "Star Trek's" best villians, Khan Noonien Singh.
	Gene Roddenberry had, in his war days, known a man named Noonien Singh, but had lost contact with him following the end of the war. He named Khan after that man, as well as Mr. Singh in "The Changeling", Dr. Noonien Soong ("Brothers") and Assistant Chief Engineer Singh ("Lonely Among Us") on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", in attempt to contact the man he had known.