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Star Trek: Khan (originally titled Star Trek: Khan: Ceti Alpha V) is a scripted audio drama series. It focuses on Khan Noonien Singh's character and is set between the events of TOS: "Space Seed" and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The audio series was produced by CBS Studios' Eye Podcast Productions Inc., Secret Hideout, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with executive producers including Alex Kurtzman, Aaron Baiers, Kirsten Beyer, Molly Barton, Carly Migliori, Fred Greenhalgh, Trevor Roth, and Rod Roddenberry. It was written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack, based on a story by Nicholas Meyer, and directed by Fred Greenhalgh. [1]
Main cast[]
- Naveen Andrews as Khan Noonien Singh [2]
- Wrenn Schmidt as Marla McGivers [3]
- George Takei as Captain Sulu [4]
- Tim Russ as Ensign Tuvok [5]
Supporting cast[]
- Sonya Cassidy as Rosalind Lear
- Paul Castro Jr. as Joachim
- Juliette Goglia as Sylvana
- Olli Haaskivi as Delmonda
- Tina Ivlev as Erica
- Mercy Malick as Ursula
- Maury Sterling as Ivan
- Zuri Washington as Madot
- Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Paolo
Episode list[]
| Listened? | Title | Episode | Guest(s) | Runtime | Original airdate |
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"Introducing Star Trek: Khan" | 1x00 | Trailer | 2 | 2025-07-26 |
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"Paradise (KHA)" | 1x01 | N/A | 43 | 2025-09-08 |
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"Scheherazade" | 1x02 | N/A | 34 | 2025-09-15 |
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"Do Your Worst" | 1x03 | N/A | 38 | 2025-09-22 |
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"Magical Thinking" | 1x04 | N/A | 40 | 2025-09-29 |
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"Imagination's Limits" | 1x05 | N/A | 37 | 2025-10-06 |
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"The Good of All" | 1x06 | N/A | 38 | 2025-10-13 |
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"I Am Marla" | 1x07 | N/A | 43 | 2025-10-20 |
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"Original Sin" | 1x08 | N/A | 40 | 2025-10-27 |
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"Eternity's Face" | 1x09 | N/A | 47 | 2025-11-03 |
Development[]
Original 2022 logo, with the "Ceti Alpha V" subtitle
In a 2017 interview, Nicholas Meyer hinted that there were more projects in development, besides Star Trek: Discovery, and that he was hired to write one of these projects. [6]
During an interview in 2018, producer Alex Kurtzman was asked if he intended to produce character focused series about Jean-Luc Picard or Khan Noonien Singh. Kurtzman responded that he would be happy to produce said series. [7] [8]
In a 2018 interview, Meyer said that he was hired to write a trilogy, but production was still on hold due to the merger talks between CBS and Viacom. [9] Said merger was completed in the second half of 2019. In another interview he announced that the miniseries would be named "Ceti Alpha V" and would focus on Khan's character between the TOS episode "Space Seed" and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. [10]
After the merger, it was announced that the series was back on track, and about to start production. [11] Later on, Meyer suggested that the reason the series was not moving forward may have to do with Paramount+ needing content for longer than a three hour run, and said that he could rewrite the current script into a full season. [12]
In 2022, it was revealed that the series would take on the form of a scripted podcast. [13]
Production had wrapped on the project by February 2025. [14] The series is to have nine episodes. It is a direct follow-up to TOS: "Space Seed", and is not based on Greg Cox's Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars novel trilogy [15] or Scott Tipton and David Tipton's Star Trek: Khan - Ruling in Hell comic miniseries.
According to writer Kirsten Beyer, Star Trek: Khan is being treated as canon, will not be contradicted by other canon productions, and will be incorporated into future stories wherever possible. [16]
Casting[]
In 2025, it was announced that Naveen Andrews was voicing Khan, with Wrenn Schmidt as Marla McGivers. [17]
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