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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Star Trek is all about supers. Khan is all about brawn being defeated by brain and good old American moxie.
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True, but if I were to walk up to someone and give them a brief description of Khan it would involve the words 'genetic,' 'strong,' 'man-cleavage,' and 'eugenics.' But 'super,' at least in the superhero sense, would not come up.
Also, he boasts a good number of times about having 'the superior intellect,' though he shows very few impressive intellectual feats.
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Originally Posted by malloyd
Really high ST for your build isn't a particularly unusual trait in Star Trek, even from biological sources. For example Spock has it.
And of course actors who happen to be heavily muscled body builders aren't *that* thick on the ground.
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At what point does seemingly unproportionate strength become an issue? I never thought of Khan as terribly disproportionate until I sat down and did the (GURPS) math. Now I look at him and go, "Why aren't you super bulked-up?" But your points make sense--I had forgotten about Spock.
Considering ST (and by extension HP) assume bulk in GURPS, how would you represent that
not being the case?