I recently got to watch Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982) for the first time, and I decided to blog about what I thought of the movie.
To start off, the movie was directed by Nicholas Meyer, who also directed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This installment of the movie featured the original cast, including William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, and Leonard Nimoy. It also featured Ricardo Montalbán as Kahn, and introduced Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik, the new Vulcan Starfleet officer.
This entire movie was based off of the events in one of The Original Series episodes, “Space Seed”. The character Khan Noonien Singh has returned to get his revenge on Captain James T. Kirk, for apparently being responsible of his wife dying. Before he finds Kirk, Khan attacks the space station Regula I. On that station, Dr. Carol Marcus and her son, David, were working on the project “Genesis”, which was a device that was going to be used to make liveable habitats on previously uncolonized planets. (In case you have not seen the movie, Carol Marcus is James Kirk’s ex-lover, and David is their son, which everyone knows about, but it has never been mentioned before this movie.) Khan kills almost all of the Regula’s crew, except for Carol and David, who escaped to a nearby planetoid, where Kirk and Bones find them. After all this, there are a few battle scenes, and I am not going to spoil the ending for the people who have not yet seen the movie.
Although the graphics and visual effects in this movie are not nearly as good as today, they are still very well done for the 1980s. They are also noticeably better than from the TV show, along with the acting, which you can tell the actors have improved on over the years.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie. I can easily see how it has been called one of the best Star Trek movies, and the ending definitely makes me want to watch the next one. I highly recommend this movie, and I would give it a 9/10 if the numbers actually mattered. If you would like to watch this movie, it is available for instant streaming on Netflix, and you can also find it for a low price at stores like Walmart.
Movie Facts found from Wikipedia.
To start off, the movie was directed by Nicholas Meyer, who also directed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This installment of the movie featured the original cast, including William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, and Leonard Nimoy. It also featured Ricardo Montalbán as Kahn, and introduced Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik, the new Vulcan Starfleet officer.
This entire movie was based off of the events in one of The Original Series episodes, “Space Seed”. The character Khan Noonien Singh has returned to get his revenge on Captain James T. Kirk, for apparently being responsible of his wife dying. Before he finds Kirk, Khan attacks the space station Regula I. On that station, Dr. Carol Marcus and her son, David, were working on the project “Genesis”, which was a device that was going to be used to make liveable habitats on previously uncolonized planets. (In case you have not seen the movie, Carol Marcus is James Kirk’s ex-lover, and David is their son, which everyone knows about, but it has never been mentioned before this movie.) Khan kills almost all of the Regula’s crew, except for Carol and David, who escaped to a nearby planetoid, where Kirk and Bones find them. After all this, there are a few battle scenes, and I am not going to spoil the ending for the people who have not yet seen the movie.
Although the graphics and visual effects in this movie are not nearly as good as today, they are still very well done for the 1980s. They are also noticeably better than from the TV show, along with the acting, which you can tell the actors have improved on over the years.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie. I can easily see how it has been called one of the best Star Trek movies, and the ending definitely makes me want to watch the next one. I highly recommend this movie, and I would give it a 9/10 if the numbers actually mattered. If you would like to watch this movie, it is available for instant streaming on Netflix, and you can also find it for a low price at stores like Walmart.
Movie Facts found from Wikipedia.