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Originally Posted by jammies
That makes it even worse - so, presumably, this was a private project of Marcus'? That ship was, what, 8 times as big as Enterprise (2X as long, high, and wide) and he just used his expense account to build it and crew it? Where did he get the money, the materials, the construction crews? Or did Khan build the whole thing himself out of Lego blocks?
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Originally Posted by trackercowe
Also those weren't officers on Marcus' ship, those were just private contractors and mercenaries. Scotty said as much when he ran into one in the escape hatch (which was a poorly written exchange mind you). So they likely knew of Marcus' plan, and were in on it all along. over our heads, but I'm glad they didn't end up bothering with Kirk's resurrection in the next movie.
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You guys are clearly not DS9 fans. It's mentioned early on in the movie that Marcus is a part of Section 31. DS9 fans know that Section 31 is a semi-sanctioned black ops group of Starfleet that does whatever it wants, however it wants. It's well funded and just like the Special Ops line in the US budget, you could hide a bazillion latinum bars before anyone noticed. Marcus is one of many in Section 31, including I assume - the lackey blue shirts on the Dreadnought. Although it's entirely possible that Section 31 hired the Blackwater of the day...
It's this dude in DS9 that's Section 31. Clearly black leather = evil in Classic Trek.
Edit - S31 also appears in Enterprise - Malcom Reed was one of them I believe. But everyone was paying attention to Jolene Blalock and not much else I suspect....I know I was.