It has everything! Including Mrs. Allen’s Best Friend!
I dig that movie for many reasons, but the one that stands out for me is the soundtrack.
That was, bar none, one of the finest instrumental soundtracks of all time. If you listen to it without watching the movie, you still feel as though you’re there because the music conveys the scenes perfectly.
WoK also took the Enterprise to a place where it hadn’t been before, the brink of destruction. It was exploding and the hull was ripped and on fire.
It was tossed around before, and the crew shaken, but never the horrible destruction it withstood in WoK. It became what usually came to Kirk’s uniforms in the series, tattered, and a scar to show that Kirk had gone through a fight that he barely won.
I liked the movie, in fact I love Star Trek. When the Next Generation came out I never thought I could get to like it and refused to watch it. I finally started watching a few shows and now I love it. Of course, my husband isn’t that crazy about it so I can’t watch it all the time. When I go back and try to look at one of the old Star Trek shows with William Shatner it just doesn’t seem to compare with the Next Generation. But I was nuts about it at the time I was watching it and love all the movies. There’s a new Star Trek, Next Gen. movie coming out around December I think.
Best Kirk Scene Ever…
David: He Cheated
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test. Got a commendation for original Thinking. I don’t like to lose.
SAAVIK: Then you never faced that situation. Faced Death
KIRK: I don’t believe in the no win scenario. Kirk to Spock it’s been two hours are you ready
Spock: Right on Schedual Admiral
Kirk: All right(His delivery is better than it reads). I’ don’t like to lose.
Every time he says that I get a chill. The essence of Kirk is there. His inability to give up no matter what. His brazeness, his cheating to win. And yet his line near the end is a bitter restatement of the fact celibrated in the former scene.
"I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing.
What a great film!!
I would think that even in the 24th century, the hijacking of a warship would be newsworthy. Not to mention that at some point Checkov and the boys might be hanging out in the mess hall, drinking a few beers and talkin smack about how Kirk kicked Khans ass.
IIRC, Checkov seemed like he didn’t quite place the name of the Botney Bay, at first, but he knew it was bad. That and you would have thought he would have remebered that Seti Alpha 5 was right next to Seti Alpha 6. Consistent with someone who maybe heard about Khan but didn’t meet him.
Can’t answer how Khan knew Checkov. Did he know him right away?
Why, H4E, I do believe we have found common ground, for I, too, love Star Trek. The new film, Nemesis, looks like to be as awesome as First Contact was. Check out the newtrailer.
There are several stories floating around about this gaffe. If you want someone to “blame” for it, you can lay it at the feet of Nick Meyer, the director, who also wrote the final draft of the screenplay that got on film, though he’s not credited for it. (Why he isn’t credited is a fascinating story in itself.) But although Meyer has acknowledged it’s a mistake, he also doesn’t think it’s such a godawful crime against humanity, and neither do I. On the commentary track of the WRATH OF KHAN DVD, Meyer reminds us that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was guilty of a staggering number of continuity errors over the course of the Holmes stories (for example, Dr. Watson’s war wound can’t seem to make up its mind whether it’s in his arm or his leg)… and he quotes Doyle as saying, “What matter, so long as I keep my readers?” Quite so.
Walter Koenig jokes that Chekov kept Khan waiting for the men’s room for an unconscionably long time, which is why Khan never forgot him. He also claims that he came this close to pointing out to Nick Meyer that Chekov wasn’t on the ship during Khan’s first visit… and, realizing that he was about to risk getting his part reduced, kept his mouth shut. I don’t blame him.
If you have to explain it somehow, if you just can’t sleep nights wondering how the hell Khan and Chekov knew each other, you can always comfort yourself by assuming that Chekov was on the Enterprise during the events of “Space Seed,” and was not yet a member of the bridge crew… and that Khan ran into him in a scene we never got to see.
Or maybe he was part of the night shft bridge crew?
Another possible explanation for Khan knowing Chekov: Remember that when Khan was in Sickbay he was given access to the ship’s computer so he could “catch up” on what had happened since he was put in cryosleep. He was able to use that access to get enough info on the ship to plan his takeover attempt (and let’s not go into that monumental security breach), and it’s not unreasonable to assume that he probably scanned the ship’s records for crew information. If you’re willing to accept the hypothesis that Chekhov was on the crew but just not seen on the show, then Khan might have remembered seeing him on the crew list; he did, after all, have total recall.
Ahh, yes. The new trailer which, with its choice of font, makes the phrase “final adventure” read like something completely different if you’re not wearing your glasses…