STAR TREK: KHAN
Episode 2

Scheherazade

Series: Khan - (2025)
Season: 1
Episode #: 2
Original Airdate: 09/15/2025

Teleplay: Kirsten Beyer and David Mack
Story: Nicholas Meyer
Director: Fred Greenhalgh

Podcast Length: 33:54

Starring
Naveen Andrews as Khan Noonien Singh
Wrenn Schmidt as Lieutenant Marla McGivers
Sonya Cassidy as Dr. Rosalind Lear
Tim Russ as Ensign Tuvok
George Takei as Captain Hikaru Sulu

Also Starring
Tina Ivlev as Erica
Maury Sterling as Ivan
Juliette Goglia as Sylvana
Unknown Performer as Richter
Mercy Malick as Ursula
Zuri Washington as Madot
Olli Haaskivi as Delmonda
Maxwell Whittington-Cooper Paolo and Additional Voices

Co-Starring
Hayden Bishop as Additional Voices
Paul Castro Jr. as Additional Voices
Ethan Dubin as Additional Voices
Cynthia Hood as Additional Voices
Alina Khan as Additional Voices
Jeremy Maxwell as Additional Voices
Hamish Sturgeon as Additional Voices
Juan Francisco Villa as Additional Voices
Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Additional Voices

Synopsis

Weeks have passed since the tension between Khan and Marla McGivers after she tried to contact the Enterprise. The air is strained. Khan won’t speak to her, and Marla feels isolated among his followers. Then one morning, Khan invites Marla to join a hunting expedition along with several of the augments. She accepts, hoping maybe this journey might begin to heal the breach between them.

As they venture into the wilds of Ceti Alpha V, the colony’s promise and peril intertwine. Marla meets new faces: the young, sensitive Richter; Sylvana, his kindred companion; Joaquin, cheerful and loyal; Ivan, harboring inner resentments. Around the campfire that evening, Marla weaves the tale of Scheherazade—that storyteller who used stories to postpone death—and gently presses Khan about how history has judged him. Khan bristles: is it better to be remembered heroically, even if through lies, than truthfully and disgraced?

Their fragile reunion is shattered when a monstrous boar-like creature attacks. Joaquin dies in the assault; Richter flees; Sylvana is bitten by something alien, making her very ill. The night ends in chaos, grief, and fear. And as dawn breaks, Khan, burning with resolve and sorrow, marches off into the wilderness alone, promising that no more of his people will perish unavenged.

Tension has sharpened: old wounds between Marla and Khan, the danger of local creatures, and more shadows in the wild than before.

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