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Originally Posted by BudBaxter
I had the same thought. 
I'm not up on old Trek lore. Is she Khan's daughter, sister, mother, what? |
Sister's daughter's mother's second cousin's college roomate's best friend's brother's sister's daughter.
In reality, we have no idea what her relation is to Khan at this point, but we do know - because it's been implied in screen scripts and stated in pre-show interviews - that she IS genetically and socially related to Khan and does have some sort of Augment heritage, which is going to be revealed in later episodes. Most likely, she is a distant relation to Khan, through his "recreational activities" and the Augment DNA is so diluted through generations of inter-breeding with regular human stock that it would not have been red-flagged in a genetic scan. As this obviously pre-dates Space Seed by several years, there is no genetic reference for Khan's DNA in Starfleet archives and we do know that other colonization sleeper ships were launched from Earth, into the galactic void, so there's plenty of wiggle-room for her to exist free of the well-established Khantinuity of Star Trek.