Alex deciphered the chamber""s puzzling feng shui compass, causing the floor to open up under his feet, and revealing a lower concealed room with terra-cotta horse statues, and the dead Emperor""s sarcophagus held on a horse-drawn chariot.But then they approach it cautiously, drawn to its color, form, and smooth surface.The leader of the clan of man-apes is the first to reach out fearfully and hypnotically for the black object.But they were unresponsive and couldn""t understand that "there""s no help coming." Ari visited Thade""s nearby encampment to submissively bow down to him ("To be with you") and to propose a trade ("Yourself for the humans").They spread out nets, fired up the light in a lighthouse to draw in the mermaids, hen sent out several longboats as further bait to attract them.Shortly later, Spock Prime revealed Khan""s history - he was the same Khan fromStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), who was defeated but at a terrible cost:Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced.