 Author Greg Cox penned three Star Trek novels featuring Khan , published by licensee Pocket Books . In the two @-@ volume The Eugenics Wars : The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh , Khan is depicted as a North Indian from a family of Sikhs . " Khan " is a title ; his adoptive parents are from Chandigarh , Punjab , India and are both eugenic scientists . At the end of the second novel , Khan and his followers are placed aboard the Botany Bay by Gary Seven as part of a deal to stop Khan 's machinations on Earth . The 2005 follow @-@ up , To Reign in Hell : The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh , relates what happened to Khan and his fellow exiles between the events of " Space Seed " and The Wrath of Khan . A different version of Khan 's exile on Ceti Alpha V is depicted in IDW Publishing 's 2010 comic miniseries Khan : Ruling in Hell . 
