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Originally Posted by octothorp
My confusion is what Marcus was planning with the torpedoes. He knew that the fuel chambers had been replaced by cryogenic tubes, right? So what did he think was going to happen if they were launched? They'd just sort of splutter and then drift haphazardly toward their destination? They were long-range torpedoes, so without knowing the distance from the neutral zone to the planet they were attacking, I'm guessing you can't just launch them without their fuel tanks and count on them to hit their targets.
Or was Marcus unaware of what they contained? I thought when he arrived in the Vengeance he made it sound like he knew that the torpedoes contained the rest of Khan's crew.
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I think Marcus' motivation was to cause an incident to provoke the Klingons, whilst at the same time killing off Khan's crew by having Kirk torpedo them at Khan, like he was supposed to do instead of taking him prisoner.
Khan seemed unclear initially about the torpedoes when he asked Kirk how many there were and then promptly surrendered when he learned it was 72. It seems like he was aware, however, when being questioned aboard the Enterprise.