It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise–now a training ship–on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission when his nemesis Khan Noonien Singh–infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth–appears after years of exile. Khan later revealed that the planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and shifted the orbit of the fifth planet as a Mars-like haven. He begins capturing Project Genesis, a top secret device holding the power of creation itself, and schemes the utter destruction of Kirk. With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. One of the best things about Star Trek is that it doesn't get so wrapped up in technology that it forgets to focus on the characters.<br/><br/>The characters, Kirk, Scotty, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, and Uhura, are reliable and consistent. They have the same foibles as we do and go through the same stress.<br/><br/>In this particular film, we ponder mortality, revenge, and sacrifice. Yes, we relish the excitement that comes with great battles in space, but we do it as humans, not machines.<br/><br/>But, a movie is only as good as the villain, and Ricardo Montalban as Khan gives us a great one. You can see his hatred for Kirk oozing from every pore. Sequels are supposed to take what was great about the first outing and expand on it while also improving upon the mishaps as well. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is better than the first film in almost every aspect. I took issue with the pacing, overuse of special effects, length, and the lack of a present villain in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This film wipes away silly and unnecessary special effects and gives us an intriguing story with characters who we understand and care about. It's also a solid 30 minutes shorter without cutting out anything that would hurt the story. I was thoroughly impressed by this sequel even 30 years after its release.<br/><br/>We open the film as the enterprise seemingly has a new captain in Kirstie Alley's Saavik, only to find out its a training exercise put together by Spock and Admiral Kirk. I was worried they may rehash the same story line as the first film as Kirk seemed to hint that he may be done with the Enterprise, only to run into an old foe in Khan. Even though I have seen bits and pieces of the original series and had been somewhat familiar with Khan as a villain, I didn't know to the extent to which him and Kirk were linked. I was glad to see viewing of his appearance in the TV series wasn't entirely necessary as they explained enough in the 103 minute run- time.<br/><br/>Khan has become somewhat of a pop culture icon over the years, so I had my fair share of expectations going in. Ricardo Montalban's performance and the writing didn't let me down. So much so that you understand where Khan is coming from when he wants Project Genesis from the crew and wants revenge for what Kirk did. In many ways, he was Kirk's arch nemesis and proved to come through with a lot of what he swore to do to Kirk. My only gripe with him as a villain was that I feel like we were missing an in person interaction with Kirk himself. Speaking through a video screen inside the Enterprise isn't enough, you need that human interaction.<br/><br/>With that said, The Wrath of Khan has the emotional layers and character depths that the first film was lacking. All of the original dynamics of the ship are there, plus some new and enjoyable ones as well. Plus, it doesn't take 45 minutes for things to get going, the pacing is much improved. James Horner's haunting score also sets the tone immediately from the opening scene, all the way through the bittersweet ending. Overall, everything feels bigger and better with The Wrath of Khan. Having seen the new Trek films, I think this can rank up there with them as some of the best outings the Enterprise crew has ever had.<br/><br/>+Fantastic score<br/><br/>+Emotionally layered<br/><br/>+Special effects & pacing much improved<br/><br/>+Very good villain<br/><br/>-Although Khan was missing the human interaction with Kirk<br/><br/>8.3/10 The Wrath of Khan is a small soap opera about a man coming to terms with age and death and a son he had never acknowledged. It's really On Golden Galaxy, and it would have made a lot more sense as a modestly produced hour of television. [7 June 1982, p.53] While on a routine training mission on the Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk (<a href="/name/nm0000638/">William Shatner</a>) receives a frantic message from an old flame, Dr Carol Marcus (<a href="/name/nm0000935/">Bibi Besch</a>), currently stationed on Regula 1, blaming him for issuing an order to take away Project Genesis, a device she has developed to terraform dead planets into lush new worlds capable of supporting life. Concerned because he has issued no such order, Kirk diverts the Enterprise to Regula 1, only to find that it is a trick perpetrated by Khan Noonien Singh (<a href="/name/nm0001544/">Ricardo Montalban</a>), a 20th century, genetically-engineered "superman" who Kirk marooned on the planet Ceti Alpha VI 15 years before. Khan wants revenge and plans to use the Genesis device as a terrorist weapon to get what he wants. They're almost all here, including Admiral James T Kirk, Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy (<a href="/name/nm0001420/">DeForest Kelley</a>), Vulcan science officer (now Captain) Spock (<a href="/name/nm0000559/">Leonard Nimoy</a>), chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (<a href="/name/nm0001150/">James Doohan</a>), communications officer Lieutenant Uhura (<a href="/name/nm0629667/">Nichelle Nichols</a>), first officer Pavel Chekov (<a href="/name/nm0000479/">Walter Koenig</a>), and helmsman Hikaru Sulu (<a href="/name/nm0001786/">George Takei</a>). Absent only are Christine Chapel (<a href="/name/nm0000854/">Majel Barrett</a>) and Janice Rand (<a href="/name/nm0926298/">Grace Lee Whitney</a>). 2285 A.D.(12 years after the first movie) Ensign Chekov made his first appearance as a bridge officer in the original Star Trek series in season two, while "Space Seed" was a season one episode. Even though Chekov was absent in the first season, he could have easily been stationed elsewhere on the ship in another rank and met Khan in an encounter not seen in the episode. The novelization states that Chekov was on night watch when Khan was on board and that he had a crush on Marla McGivers (<a href="/name/nm0722599/">Madlyn Rhue</a>), who later became Khan's wife. No reference was made to Chekov serving on another ship prior to season two. Walter Koenig jokingly suggested that Chekov kept Khan waiting at a toilet once, which would explain why Khan recognized him so quickly. According to the novelization, "lifelessness" wasn't the only requirement for a Genesis testbed. If so, the Reliant's mission wouldn't have been necessary; lifeless planets are far more numerous than life-supporting ones. However, the planet in question has to be of a certain mass, within the "Goldilocks zone" of a star system, orbiting the right type of star, and meet many other requirements. Basically, it has to be a planet where life could exist if not for some underlying factor like, say, the horrifying atmosphere of Ceti Alpha V—but yet it doesn't exist. The so-called Goldilocks zone describes a planet's distance from a sun that's not too close or far but could sustain life. Our Solar system is the perfect example. It has a friendly main sequence G-class star. Mercury is outside the zone and a dead world were the intense heat from the sun negates any type of atmosphere and ecosystem like Earth has. Therefore, Mercury could not be terraformed. Venus is in the Zone but something went very wrong there, possibly the fact it rotates backwards. Mars is the most interesting of all. Probably lifeless, but it is in the Goldilocks zone. Mars was too small to hold onto to its early atmosphere and keep a core molten enough to create plate tectonics. If Mars was terraformed, it would remain terraformed for a long time but, because of its small size and mass, the atmosphere would again slowly escape into space. The movie focuses on the Genesis project mostly for terraforming, modifying an existing planet to suit the new matrix. But when Genesis is used it creates a planet from the cloud of the Mutara Nebula—the cloud disappears almost instantly and and the planet appears as if from nowhere. In the proposal video, Carol Marcus does say that terraforming is only a fraction of what Genesis can accomplish implying that it can do much more. Characters talk about creation but never to what extent it can create. The novelization explains that given sufficient mass and proper programming Genesis could create an entire system. This means that it doesn't matter where exactly the matter comes from, just that enough is there in whatever form to create a planet (an existing planet simply makes this step easier). In essence, Genesis absorbed all the mass of the spread-out nebula and condensed it into a single planet. It is likely not the Regula planetoid, since the planet formed where Reliant exploded (deep within the nebula) while Regula was far beyond the edge. Terrell was commanded to kill Kirk while the eel was in his brain, but he visibly struggled against the command, ultimately killing himself instead. Chekov merely passed out due to the pain the eel was causing, at which point the creature came out of his head via his ear. As to why the eel apparently chose to exit Chekov's body, presumably it somehow sensed the death of its sibling and left the body in an attempt to save itself before Chekov also committed suicide, only to meet its end at the hands of Kirk's phaser. Alternatively, what we witnessed may have been the natural end of the Ceti Eel infestation, which proved fatal to Khan's infected followers due to a lack of medical supplies (and possibly medical training), but which Chekov was able to survive thanks to Dr. McCoy's presence. While Vulcans are normally good at repressing their emotions, the novelization explains that Saavik (<a href="/name/nm0000263/">Kirstie Alley</a>) is half Vulcan and half Romulan and not as in control as Spock or as full-blooded Vulcans. It states that Vulcan-Romulan hybrids are not respected by either culture and that she faced a difficult life, first at a Romulan colony then on Vulcan, giving her anger issues. The book also explained that she considered Scotty's nephew, Peter Preston (<a href="/name/nm0252055/">Ike Eisenmann</a>), one of her few actual friends, that she had been tutoring him, and that seeing him injured greatly affected her. It also has her throwing a chair in anger and crying as well as mourning during the funeral vigil. Remember the phrase, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." As Spock points out during the Enterprise's initial encounter with the Reliant, the prefix code can be changed and there's a good chance that Khan actually did change it before Kirk and Spock made use of it. On that occasion Khan hadn't changed it, likely because he either didn't know what it was or hadn't considered the possibility of Kirk using it to override the Reliant's systems. After that however, he would almost certainly have taken steps to find out exactly what Kirk did and changed the code. In "Space Seed" Khan was able to quickly and easily memorize a great deal of information about the Enterprise. He would have used the same skills to learn about Reliant and prevent other tricks. Right before that line of dialog, Spock also says that Khan lacks the experience of a battle-hardened starship commander like Kirk. Therefore, when Spock mentions "two-dimensional thinking", Kirk realizes that he can drop the Enterprise below Reliant to evade a frontal or rearward attack from Khan—moments later, he gives that order. Khan, despite being a genius, floats past the Enterprise, leaving himself vulnerable to a rearward attack once Kirk orders the Enterprise to ascend behind Reliant. The tactic is taken from submarine warfare, where captains would try to evade each other underwater in much the same fashion or drop a dangerous depth to avoid depth charges being thrown at them. Knowing that, without the warp drive, the Enterprise will not be able to escape from the Genesis wave unleashed by Khan in a last-ditch effort to destroy Kirk, Spock attempts to enter the warp drive chamber to repair the core. McCoy attempts to stop him, but Spock nerve-pinches McCoy then mindmelds with him, saying only, "Remember." He then enters the chamber and repairs the core, at the same time contaminating himself with a lethal dose of radiation. On the bridge, Kirk is elated that the warp drive is back online and orders that the ship quickly get out of there. The Genesis wave detonates, destroying the Reliant and causing the Mutara Nebula to condense around the explosion and form a new planet. When Kirk contacts engineering to congratulate Scotty for getting the warp drive back online, McCoy suggests that he get down there immediately. Spock, still inside the warp chamber, is dying. He has time only to say that he did what he did because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one and that he has been and always will be Kirk's friend. Spock's body is laid to rest in a photon tube, given a ritual send-off, and jettisoned down to the newly-created Genesis planet. Later, as Kirk sits in his quarters trying to read, David Marcus (<a href="/name/nm0125190/">Merritt Butrick</a>) enters, apologizes for his previous actions, and says that he's proud to be Kirk's son. Kirk is touched, and they embrace each other. On the bridge, Carol and the bridge officers admire the Genesis planet. The Enterprise sets a course for Earth, planning to stop along the way to pick up the crew of the Reliant left on Ceti Alpha V. After some panning shots of the planet and Spock's coffin, Spock recites in an voiceover the Federation mission statement …to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new lifeforms and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. Actressdecided not to return to the franchise, which is why in subsequent films Kirk is the one narrating the Genesis video. However, the novelizations of the films continue her story. In The Search for Spock, after a wake held for those who died Kirk attempts to reconnect with Carol. She gets upset since one of the scientists killed was her lover, and did not like that Starfleet was silencing information on Genesis. She leaves when the ship returns to Earth. In The Voyage Home, she was visiting Delta IV to inform family about their dead loved ones when she finds out about David before the Whale Probe attacks Earth. In The Undiscovered Country, Kirk and Carol did reconnect shortly following the events of The Final Frontier. They stayed in contact over the ten years between films and he intended to stay with her after he retired. Unfortunately she was in a facility that was attacked by Chang's experimental Bird of Prey. Kirk visited her before he was called away for the peace talks. She eventually wakes when he is captured. In Generations in an epilogue to The Undiscovered Country, Kirk contacts Carol following the mission before leaving the Enterprise-A for good learning she is okay. He tells her he wants to marry her, but they both recognize that she would be too involved in her work and he would get restless. During the christening of Enterprise-B, Kirk comments that he met with Carol a few times since retiring but they had drifted apart. The character would not reappear until Star Trek Into Darkness, set in an alternate timeline chronologically set earlier, played by . Yes. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a novelization of the movie by American science fiction writer Vonda N. McIntyre, was released in 1982. So far, there are 13. Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn was preceded by <a href="/title/tt0079945/">Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)</a> (1979) and followed by <a href="/title/tt0088170/">Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)</a> (1984), <a href="/title/tt0092007/">Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)</a> (1986), <a href="/title/tt0098382/">Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)</a> (1989), and <a href="/title/tt0102975/">Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)</a> (1991), all of which featured the Enterprise captained by James T Kirk. <a href="/title/tt0111280/">Star Trek: Generations (1994)</a> (1994) united Kirk's crew with the crew of the Enterprise captained by Jean-Luc Picard. The Star Trek movies featuring Picard as captain include: <a href="/title/tt0117731/">Star Trek: First Contact (1996)</a> (1996), <a href="/title/tt0120844/">Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)</a> (1998), and <a href="/title/tt0253754/">Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)</a> (2002). <a href="/title/tt0796366/">Star Trek (2009)</a> (2009), <a href="/title/tt1408101/">Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)</a> (2013) and <a href="/title/tt2660888/">Star Trek: Beyond (2016)</a> (2016) harken to an alternate reality in which Kirk was just beginning his career with Starfleet Academy. According to writer/director Nicholas Meyer, no. He kept himself in remarkable shape for his age, and so his costume was designed to show that off. Whether Meyer was joking or not has never been clear. At the same time, however, no-one involved with the production has come forward to claim that Montalban DID wear any form of prosthesis. 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