Posted on 09/09/2022 9:23:51 PM PDT by TBP
It is one of my all-time favorite movies and the best of all the Star Treks.
Star Trek - Born Again Trek - Wrath of Khan - Julia Ecklar
https://youtu.be/vARV4JXK3R0
The best Star Trek film and I watched as a kid in the theater when it came out in 1982. Terrific film score by James Horner.
i never noticed it until Ricardo Montalban commented on it in a much later interview, but his part in this movie was very, very small.
A fantastic movie, even if you aren’t a big Star Trek fan.
Khan continually bragged about his superior intelligence due to his genetic engineering, but he was so easily tricked by Kirk at every encounter. The obvious way that he was mislead into thinking that repairing the Enterprise would take days instead of hours, for one. But then just following him into a nebula because Kirk blatantly taunts him when he starts to slow his pursuit. These people had spent almost no time on a starship, yet they knew how to repair one that was heavily damaged, and also thinking they could outmaneuver Kirk who had decades more experience. I wouldn’t exactly say he had superior intelligence after that.
I was a young engineer, right out of college, when this movie came out. I saw it at the “Cinema Pub” on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando - a wonderful place to relax and watch a movie on a Friday night. A great movie, and a great memory!
And let’s not forget that Khan was “thinking in two dimensions” as he battled in three dimensional space.
The Critical Drinker posted an excellent you tube review of Wrath of Kahn juxtaposed with Star Trek: Into Darkness. It is worth the time to take in CD’s insight about the two movies. The title of the video is - “Star Trek: Into Darkness is a terrible movie”.
The NappyOne
The producers could have put Shatner in heavy makeup and have him playing Kirk from the show. They did much better though, and had Kirk confront the reality that he was no longer that young man and that mortality comes for each of us.
Star Trek II is when Kirk grows up. And it is magnificent to behold.
Yeah he seemed more willing to let his rage control him than doing the smart thing. And this over the death of his wife which Kirk really had nothing to do with.
I was still dealing with my mother’s death when I became a Trekkie and this movie was the latest one out then. Being able to grieve for Spock instead of mother gave me a release value so that the teapot didn’t boil over. My first piece of fiction was a Trek death piece that I brought to a con and gave to the woman in front of me in line. She burst out crying. From then on, I knew where my story was by who was crying. Trek has always been the most wonderful place to create with other passionate fans. I LOVE being a Trekker!
Star Trek - Born Again Trek - Wrath of Khan - Julia Ecklar
https://youtu.be/vARV4JXK3R0
“All stop! Z-minus 10,000 meters”
Agreed!
Coincidentally, “Space Seed” was on H&I last night (Friday).
The only problem I had with Khan is that the movie ended exactly wrong. Khan should have seen the Enterprise as it warped away from the destruction to put the final knife in Khan’s heart, rather than Khan saying that Kirk could not get away. Boo-hiss! ;-)
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