Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Killed Canon (And That's Okay)

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Khan Noonien Singh is Star Trek's most recognizable villain. We learn in The Original Series episode "Space Seed" that he rose to power in 1992 in a conflict called the Eugenics Wars. But why has Strange New Worlds retconned the dates of the wars and of Khan's birth to the 21st century?

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- CHAPTERS -
00:00 Intro
01:35 Eugenics Wars Background
06:00 Conforming to Reality
08:02 A Line in the Sand
10:06 What is Canon Anymore?
14:12 Spaceflight Chronology
23:47 The "Original" Timeline
27:30 Summary
30:07 Outro