Eugenics Wars

The Eugenics Wars are fictional backstory events in the Star Trek fictional universe. First mentioned in the TOS episode "Space Seed", it was stated that the Eugenics Wars were a global conflict that occurred during the mid-to-late 1990s. The progeny of a human genetic engineering project established themselves as supermen and attempted world domination. The most notable of them, Khan Noonien Singh, conquered a quarter of the planet, mostly Asia. They ended up fighting amongst themselves and were eventually overthrown due to their disunity. Khan, however, escaped into space with a group of his followers only to be encountered by the after spending centuries in suspended animation aboard the pre-warp starship SS Botany Bay. A later episode, "Statistical Probabilities", also mentions the Eugenics Wars, where Julian Bashir uses the war as an example of why the Federation is wary of genetically engineered people.
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At the time "Space Seed" was written, the Eugenics Wars were implied to be large-scale global conflicts. However, after the very different reality of the actual 1990s, the Eugenics Wars have been retconned in the licensed two volume set of non-canon Star Trek novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, which describe them as much more covert conflicts, secret wars that occurred mostly in the shadows of the major conflicts and events of that decade, with Gary Seven and his assistant being Khan's principal opponents.

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