One correction on the Reviewer's comments. Saavik was not pure Vulcan. She was half Romulan. I remember reading that point near the time the film was first released.

I've always found that people nitpicking the Chekov/Khan scene was anoying. Just because we first saw Chekoc on screen in the 2nd season it doesn't mean that he wasn't around before that point. The Enterprise had over 100 crew members. I don't recall ever seeing all those 100 crew members over the course of 3 seasons.

Since there is no edit button I'll add that I am a bit dissapointed with the blue ray release. I was hoping for the extended cut of Wrath of Khan as well as the remastered of the Mtion picture and so on. I will not be buying them on blue rays till those versions are released. Till then my regular dvd copies are good enough

I'm showing my age, but I remember an old Starlog article from 1981 or '82 where Montalban and Koenig were being interviewed on stage at a convention. They were asked about Khan remembering Chekov. Montalban and Koenig came up with a story that had Khan entering a restroom. The only working toliet was occupied by Chekov. Khan waits and waits until he can't take it any more and pounds on the stall door. Chekov says he can't go when he's being yelled at. Finally Chekov exits the stall as Khan races past him. Khan stops long enough to stare at Chekov and swear that he will never forget or forgive him for almost making him crap himself.

That story works for me.

If you want to nitpick, there's only what a hundred and something crew members aboard the original Enterprise.  Yet, in the new Trek film George Kirk saved over 800 lives on board the Kelvin.  That's a damn big ship for being designed at least 25 years earlier.

Still, love Khan, but it definitely has it's flaws and inconsistancies.

It is all in fun guys....

Fine.  I thought someone would've said it by now but since it wasn't:

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you HANSO I was waiting for it too, but since I wrote the column I couldn't be the one to do it...

From hell's heart I stab at thee

Just wanted to say that I've noticed that it is really easy to "skip over" STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE for some people.

Dismissing the first film as "long and overdrawn" is the mindset of the film viewer that does not find it easy to be intellectual. THE MOTION PICTURE is the most faithful story that has STAR TREK at it's core. It is about unknowns and exploration. Rarely in the following pictures does that combo rear it's head in the way it does in the first film. Robert Wise tried to creat a science-fiction film that was thought-provoking in the way that Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was.

It's insulting to skip the first film because of it's pacing and lack of space battles ala Khan.

THE WRATH OF KHAN (like Abram's) is barely STAR TREK. While they are fantastic and extremely enjoyable films it seems that there exists a sacrifice with the intellectual nature of science-fiction for the kineticism of an action film.

I love the new film. I love KHAN. But they're not really STAR TREK to me. Roddenberry's vision WAS "Let's see what's out there."

For me "There is no comparison."