Från Star Trek Into Darkness :
Kirk: Why is there a man in that torpedo?
Khan: There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain. I put them there.
Kirk: Who the hell are you?
Khan: A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. But we were condemned as criminals, forced into exile. For centuries we slept, hoping when we awoke things would be different. But as a result of the destruction of Vulcan, your Starfleet began to aggressively search distant quadrants of space. My ship was found adrift. I alone was revived.
Kirk: I looked up John Harrison. Until a year ago, he didn't exist.
Khan: John Harrison was a fiction created the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name is Khan.
Kirk: Why would a Starfleet Admiral ask a three hundred year old frozen man for help?
(här frågade Kirk samma fråga som du frågade)
Khan: Because I am better.
Kirk: At what?
Khan: Everything. Alexander Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilised threat in a civilised time, and for that he needed a warrior's mind, my mind, to design weapons and warships.
Spock: You are suggesting the Admiral violated every regulation he vowed to uphold simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect.
Khan: He wanted to exploit my savagery. Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mister Spock. You, you can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone? Marcus used me to design weapons, to help him realise his vision of a militarised Starfleet.
Khan hade ett krigsmannens sinne med perfekt kreativitet för att bygga vapen och krigsskepp. Och överlägsen intellekt betyder också snabbare inlärningsförmåga. Ja, Khan kan ersättas med andra Starfleet officers, om inte en, då mer än en (till exempel Spock kan också vara en stor tillgång i projektet som Khan själv pekar på). Men det stora problemet var att admiral Marcus skulle bryta mot många Starfleet-regler. Han slog till och med ut torpederna från Starfleet-poster, till exempel.
När admiral Marcus hittade Khan slog han jackpotten, eftersom han kunde använda sin frusna besättning för att chansera honom och få honom att göra sitt bud på något sätt möjligt. Inte lätt möjligt med andra intellektuella Starfleet officerare eftersom de inte var osynliga från världen.Carol: Are the torpedoes in the weapons bay?
Kirk: Loaded and ready to fire. What are they?
Carol: I don't know. That's why I forged my transfer onto your ship to find out why. I do apologise for that. By the way, if I caused you any problems, I am sorry. I'm Carol Marcus.
Kirk: James Kirk.
Carol: Torpedoes. My father gave me access to every program he oversaw, then I heard he was developing these prototype torpedoes. When I went to confront him about it, he wouldn't even see me. That's when I discovered the torpedoes had disappeared from all official records.
Kirk: And then he gave them to me.
Carol: You're much cleverer than your reputation suggests, Captain Kirk.
Kirk: I have a reputation?