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Joachim

Joachim aboard the USS Reliant

Joachim was an Augment (a genetically engineered Human) born in the 20th century on Earth. He was a disciple of Khan Noonien Singh and one of the so-called "supermen" who fled Earth with Khan aboard the SS Botany Bay. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Background

Joachim was played by Judson Scott. His character was apparently intended to be Joaquin, one of the supermen (played by Mark Tobin) seen in TOS: "Space Seed", but he is a separate character due to the name being changed, possibly erroneously, in production of Star Trek II. (citation needededit)

The vest worn by Joachim in Star Trek II was sold as Lot #821 at the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection. The buyer paid US$5,040 for the lot, after winning it with a bid of US$4,200. The catalog, which listed the lot as "JOAQUIM'S VEST", estimated a price of 600 to 800 dollars.

Apocrypha

In Greg Cox's Trek novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, Joachim is the son of Joaquin Weiss and Suzette Ling, who were married after Khan and his fellow supermen were left on Ceti Alpha V. After Joaquin and Ling both die defending Khan in battle, Khan decides to raise Joachim as if he were his own son. Khan felt this is the least he could do after Joaquin's many years of faithful dedication in service to him. Also noted in the book was the fact that most of the followers of Khan found on Ceti Alpha V by Chekov and Terrell were much younger than Khan; this is explained in the novel that within six months of exile (before the explosion of Ceti Alpha VI) that many of the colonists had paired off and several of the women were already pregnant. These children were then born in the underground caves later and because of their genetically altered status, they seemed to mature much faster than ordinary humans. For example, when Joachim was ten, Khan noted in his journals (found by Kirk on Ceti Alpha V) that he appeared already to be fifteen. By the time of their escape aboard the Reliant, all but just a few of the original supermen of the Eugenics Wars had died due to disease, combat, accident or Ceti eel, and therefore most of Khan's crew, which according to Chekov, was only about two dozen people, were the children born after the exile.

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