Star Trek: Khan has already shown that Ceti Alpha V is perfect for character-driven Trek, but “Do Your Worst” may be its strongest case for a visual adaptation. Khan’s colony faces mounting losses and an increasingly hostile world, even as a first pregnancy offers a fragile glimpse of hope.
With its harsh setting, intimate character drama, and morally complicated take on Khan Noonien Singh, the episode feels tailor-made for prestige streaming. It does not need a massive battle or franchise cameo; its strength lies in watching a community struggle to survive as Khan becomes increasingly convinced that control is the only path forward.
With that in mind, the following pages reveal five moments from episode 3, “Do Your Worst,” that would be even more powerful on screen.
5. Comforting Joachim
One of the episode’s most affecting ideas is Khan’s role as a storyteller for the colony’s children. In particular, he has to contend with Joachim’s grief after the death of his father, Joaquin. The situation gives Khan an unexpectedly tender role within the colony: not simply commander or strategist, but a figure expected to offer reassurance to a child when no reassuring explanation really exists.
A TV or streaming adaptation could make this an emotionally quiet but important scene. Khan sitting with Joachim at night, carefully choosing words as the child tries to make sense of loss, would reveal a side of Khan that audiences rarely associate with the character. He wants to be seen as a protector, and he may genuinely believe that shielding Joachim from the harshest truths is an act of kindness.
That is where the scene gets interesting. Khan’s leadership rests partly on certainty. He must make people believe that Ceti Alpha V can be shaped into a home, even as he knows how fragile their circumstances are.
Watching Khan comfort Joachim, rather than simply listening to his log entry about the incident from the future, as Lear does, would not make Khan less complicated. It would make his later certainty and anger more tragic, especially when one considers it was actually Marla McGivers who first comforted Joachim after the tragedy occurred.
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