CBS Studios releases the first episode of the scripted podcast Star Trek: Khan, a long-gestating project dating back to the early days of Star Trek: Discovery as a television proposal by Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan), finally produced in audio form. Naveen Andrews (Lost) stars as Khan. 
Stardate not given: Dr. Rosalind Lear stirs controversy and some deep emotions by insisting that Starfleet transport her to Ceti Alpha V to retrieve what she believes is a copious stash of logs kept by Dr. Marla McGivers, formerly of the U.S.S. Enterprise, who left her ship to remain with Khan. Asserting that history is written by the victors – in this case, the late Captain James T. Kirk – Dr. Lear seeks any information from McGivers’ logs that might set the historical record straight where Khan and his genetically augmented followers is concerned. Though offended at first by the suggestion that Kirk was anything less than truthful in logging the Enterprise’s encounter with the sleeper ship Botany Bay, Captain Sulu of the Excelsior offers to deliver Dr. Lear to her destination. She beams down with a security escort, Ensign Tuvok, and discovers that her suspicions were correct: McGivers kept an extensive recorded history of the exiled Augments. The first logs she listens to reveal a band of people who were already outsiders, struggling to make something habitable of their new home, though some of them feel Khan’s failure to hijack the Enterprise makes him unworthy to lead them. And only mere days after abandoning her Starfleet oath to join Khan, Marla McGivers discovers he may have had a hidden motive in bringing her to Ceti Alpha V.
written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack
based on a story by Nicholas Meyer
additional writing by Mack Rogers
directed by Fred Greenhalgh
music by Marcus Thorne Bagala and Sam BagalaCast: Naveen Andrews (Khan Noonien Singh), Wrenn Schmidt (Lt. Marla McGivers), Sonya Cassidy (Dr. Rosalind Lear), Tim Russ (Ensign Tuvok), George Takei (Captain Sulu), Olli Haaskivi (Delmonda), Maury Sterling (Ivan), Mercy Malick (Ursula), Zuri Washington (Madot), Phaedra Al-Kasey (additional voices), Hayden Bishop (additional voices), Paul Castro Jr. (additional voices), Chad Chennai (additional voices), Ethan Dubin (additional voices), Aaron Fores (additional voices), Juan Francisco Villa (additional voices), Juliet Golia (additional voices), Aaron Hendry (additional voices), Cynthia Hood (additional voices), Tina Ivlev (additional voices), Adriel Jovianeres Riviera (additional voices), Alina Khan (additional voices), Jacqueline Jackson (additional voices), Jeremy Maxwell (additional voices), Christina Oates (additional voices), Hamish Sturgeon (additional voices), Regina Toffin (additional voices), Maxwell Whittington-Cooper (additional voices)
Notes: The “present day” bookends of the story happen in 2296; Sulu says it has been three years since the (apparent) death of Captain Kirk (in Star Trek: Generations). Tuvok, who was seen to be an Ensign in the past sequences in Flashback (which takes place in 2271), is still serving as an Ensign under Sulu’s command aboard the Excelsior, meaning he’s been an Ensign for 25 years (hopefully dwarfing the amount of time his future crewmate Harry Kim will spend at that grade). Ursula’s reference to diluted Augment bloodlines still existing among Earth’s human population may be a reference to Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Though stories of Khan’s exile have been told in prose and in comics, none of these accounts line up with one another. Though Meyer’s involvement, and CBS’ production, may make this series “more canonical” than the previous printed stories, the Star Trek franchise has a track record of not being bound by any non-filmed spinoff media.
LogBook entry by Earl Green