![]() Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan $9.99 This movie flat out rocks. I mean it is awesome. Star Trek the Motion Picture was a critical failure, garbage pile that it was, but a financial success. The studio decided to try making one more movie, with a much lower budget. They didn't let Gene Roddenberry have much involvement with this project, which is probably a good thing. They hired Nicholas Meyer to direct this movie, who had no knowledge of Star Trek. He watched the entire original series, and particularly liked the episode "Space Seed." This episode features the first appearance of Khan Nooien Singh, and is one of the only episodes of the series that I liked. He decided to make Khan the primary villian of the sequel. When the film was released, it was a huge success, critically and financially. It is still considered by some to be the best Star Trek movie of all time, even better than the 2009 reboot. The movie starts out with Admiral Kirk on an inspection of the Enterprise. Spock is now captain of the Enterprise. Kirk is longing for the days of years past when he was captain, and is getting depressed in his old age. Chekov...I hate Chekov...is the first officer on the Reliant, a science vessel which is conducting tests on a new piece of technology, the Genesis torpedo. It has the power to "create life from lifelessness". They are trying to find a completely dead planet to test it on. They explore the planet Ceti Alpha Five, and find Khan there. He captures Chekov and the captain of Reliant, and sets out to obtain Genesis. He also wants to find and kill Kirk, who he blames for the death of his wife. Marla Mcgivens, the dumb chick from Space Seed, who fell in love with Khan. Khan attacks and severly criples Enterprise, but they are able to fight him off. Then Kirk and a few others beam to the Genesis space station. They discover Carol Marcus, Kirk's old girlfriend, and their son, David. Khan tries again to kill Kirk, but is unsuccessful. He decides to leave Kirk on the planet to die. However, Enterprise beams them back on board. They engage Reliant in a spectacular battle, and Enterprise gets the upper hand. However, Khan sets off the Genesis torpedo, crazed in his attempt to kill Kirk. Enterprise's warp drive is busted, so Spock goes into a room with radiation in it and fixes the problem. He sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise, which is able to escape just in time. Although Khan is dead, he had inadvertantly succeeded in hurting Kirk by killing his friend The torpedo creates a luscious, livable planet out of the dead moon by the station. Kirk loads Spock's body into a torpedo tube and shoots him out onto the Genesis planet. He then contemplates that if Genesis is capable of producing life, then maybe it can revive Spock. Again, this movie is awesome. It has one of the best villians in the Star Trek cannon, (I don't want to say best, because I've heard that the bad guy on Deep Space Nine is the best) it has visuals which were pretty good for the 1980s, and it set the stage for much more Star Trek. With the success of this movie, they made more sequels, and eventually four more Star Trek television shows. If they hadn't done such an outstanding job on this movie, Star Trek would probably have ended back then. If you have never seen this movie, or you've never seen Star Trek at all, buy this movie anyway. It's that good. When I first saw this movie, I thought it was good , but not great. That is, until I saw the TOS episode Space Seed. Before watching this movie, watch this episode. 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