# Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan (SPOILERS!!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587 "2002-11-30T02:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/61 "2002-12-03T08:06:42Z")
Dude! You wanna maybe give a spoiler warning before you ruin _Empire_ for those of us who haven’t seen it?! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/62 "2002-12-04T01:19:02Z")
I’m just glad they made Kirk’s son a grownup. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to have some kid on the bridge of a Starship? I just got **Roadwalker** ’s joke about the Klingons and _Taxi._ Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/63 "2002-12-04T01:41:59Z")
Wrath of Khan was ok, but I can’t wait to see **Shatner direct** one! He’ll put all these wannabe trek directors in their place! And what’s with all the men?! Let’s see a new series with a **female captain!** That’ll be the bestest series ever!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/64 "2002-12-04T01:48:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weird\_AL\_Einstein \* > \*\*Of course, then I won’t be able to bug them to buy me a Colecovision. Shoot. What should I go for, video player or Colecovision? \*\* Pssst. Save your money. Coleco is coming out with a whole computer system next year called the ADAM. It’s gonna be the most coolest thing EVER! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/65 "2002-12-04T06:56:09Z")
Man, I hope they get around to giving Uhura a nude scene some day. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/66 "2002-12-04T18:02:20Z")
Man, they’re wearing some dorky suits down in engineering. It looks like they raided the costume closet over at Star Wars. And those effects! They _totally_ used footage from TMP, and just cut them down. But the black guy who killed himself looked familiar. Has he lost weight? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/67 "2002-12-04T18:21:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*Pssst. Save your money. Coleco is coming out with a whole computer system next year called the ADAM. It’s gonna be the most coolest thing EVER! \*\* Nah, Vectrex is the way of the future. The days of video games you hook up to your TV and sprite-based graphics are over. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/68 "2002-12-04T18:38:04Z")
And now, a brief anecdote from Kn\*ckers’ childhood: The first time I saw **The Wrath of Khan** , I was about seven years old. The part with the ear-worms terrified the living daylights out of me. I still can’t watch that movie, because it brings back the same feeling of repulsed horror I felt as a kid. You’d think I’d have gotten over it by now, but - nope! Still creepy as all hell! Kn(scarred for life)ckers ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/69 "2002-12-04T19:20:06Z")
Those ear worms are REAL. I know a kid at school who said his dad know a guy who’s like a scientist? And he was telling the kid’s dad about how the worms kill people all the time in like jungles and stuff, in like place like Australia? Grody. I know this other kid? And he said he read this thing about how in the next Star Trek they might like make peace with the Klingons? I told him that was stupid. The Klingons are like the bad guys, right? I was like, “Yeah, sure, and they’ll have a Klingon on the crew of the Enterprise! No way!” What a dork, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/70 "2002-12-04T19:31:55Z")
_sobbing_ MOMMY!! **RickJay** ’s saying gross things about the ear-worms! He said they’re _reeealll_!! They aren’t _really_ real, are they?! What do you mean, “Ask Uncle Cecil?” How would he know? Kn(ahh, the folly of childhood)ckers ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/71 "2002-12-04T20:04:04Z")
I dunno… Shatner looks like he might be starting to lose his hair. He’ll either have to get a Toupee soon or get killed off. No one would want to watch a bald captain. Spock’s death scene was way cool, I hope Kirk goes out with a similarly great scene. Like in a beautiful, imaginative set piece, fighting a villian that’s personal, with something that really matters on the line. I liked David Marcus’s hair. I think I’m gonna grow mine like that. Hope it’s ready in time for the Michael Jackson concert next month. (That guy can do no wrong!) ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/72 "2002-12-04T20:19:34Z")
Boy that was cool. Best Special effects in a movie ever! I was a little weirded out when I found out Kirk’s son is in that new show on CBS Square dregs or somthing but he’ll also be playing a punk rocker. I hope he will still have time to be in the next movie. My guesses for the next movie. Spock will return like Ben Kenobi did two years ago in Empire Strikes back. He’ll be like a logic ghost or something. The Story will centre around the adventures of Kirk and his son after he marries Carol Marcus. They will bring back old villians from the show because the formula works so well. Rumour has it that another Doomsday Machine is going to attack the Federation searching for whales or something. Oh and I have a rumour about Lucas’s next film. n Revenge of the Jedi, Luke Dies and his ling lost brother gets revenge against Darth Vader who lied about being his father. And no one believe the lame assed rumour about them reusing the Death Star that is just people claiming Lucas has no more imagination. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/73 "2002-12-04T21:45:23Z")
I just saw Wrath of Khan at a drive in with my girlfriend. It was so weird seeing Spock die like that. He can’t really be dead right? I mean, he did that mind meld with McCoy, so maybe…I don’t know, maybe Bones will start acting like Spock in the next movie or something. I bet Khan comes back too. After all, he was right in the middle of the genesis explosion. I think he becomes a sort of god and brings Spock back as his slave, but then McCoy manages to return Spock to normal. That makes sense. I still can’t get used to Kirk being an admiral, but with his record he’ll never be demoted. I can’t wait for the Soundtrack LP to come out too. I just got a new record player. As far as the next Star Wars film, remember when Yoda said “There is another?” I think we’ll find out that Han is also a Jedi. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/74 "2002-12-05T04:01:52Z")
So, what sci-fi film this year is better? _Blade Runner, E.T., STII:TWOK,_ or _Cat People_? And what’s going on with the Falklands? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587/75 "2002-12-05T04:18:49Z")
_Tron_, man! It’s only like going to be the totally biggest hit of the year! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-spoilers/139587.md?page=3)