Posted on 09/09/2022 9:23:51 PM PDT by TBP
I noticed that too. Hollywood directors are scientifically illiterate, by and large. There are exceptions, such as James Cameron, but usually they can’t tell a parsec from a potato from an asteroid.
If memory serves me, while in sickbay in Space Seed, Khan had asked for and received access to the ship’s computer console. He could have accessed ship’s records and easily memorized a large number of crew profiles. It’s a possibility.
I find it interesting that 99% of planets that Star Fleet ships visit have one world governments.
Khan = Biden
Not all TOS episodes were great...but Space Seed surely was. I’ve never seen The Wrath of Khan...in fact the only Star Trek I’ve ever seen was the Original Series.
BTTT.
His time on the screen may have been shorter than expected, but his part was in no way small.
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Only a great actor like Ricardo Montalban could properly play the role of Khan. He played it right to the edge, without becoming cartoonish. He was the perfect villain to play against Shatner, who also knows how to push a character role to the max.
In the novelization, not only was Chekov a junior crewman at the time, but he had the hots for the history specialist that Khan wooed and took as his wife. When she left with Khan, he was privately devastated.
Its name is Joseph Robinette Biden...
I didn’t grasp the symbolism of Kirk’s being prescribed spectacles by McCoy at the start of the show (and their being broken after Spock’s death) until much later.
To quote Khan, “The shock shifted the orbit of this planet, and everything was laid waste.”
The novelization explained that there had been only two mapping expeditions through the area, an unmanned probe from a century earlier and the Enterprise’s passage nearly twenty years prior, and the available star charts didn’t match.
I saw Star Trek II when it originally came out in the movie theaters in 1982. I was 13 years old. Saw it with my then best friend (same age as me).
The one thing we shared was our love for the movies. We were both fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we went to the movies together once a week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s. He always chose the movie we would go to see. I didn’t mind. I loved the movie theater going experience in itself.
When we weren’t going to the movies, we were watching more movies on his tv at his apartment. There was no particular reason my friend chose Star Trek II to see. We tried to see every brand new movie that came out as best we could regardless of the genre (Neither of us were Sci-Fi fans. He loved horror films, I preferred comedy), the plot and storyline, who starred in it, etc. And Star Trek II just happened to be one of the new movies that just came out. We really enjoyed it. My friend was fond of yelling out “KHAN!!!! KHAN!!!” afterwards.
Going to the movies every week with my then best friend in the 1970s-1980s is among my most fondest, happiest memories of not only my childhood, but also of my entire life
Ah. Thx.
Post 71 covers that.
My Favorite of the Star Trek Movies.
Lots of quotes from my second-favorite book too.
(Moby Dick)
Pretty much all of them were good.
Yes, I loved that sketch. I love how they ended it.
“Of course, that Was Bad Kirk form Season 1, Episode 5, The eEnemy Within.”
You ought to look it up.
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