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jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

I thought it was cool. Never realized how hardcore you trekkies are, my god. I consider myself a softcore trekkie, but I still liked the movie.

le-paul · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Location: dans la chambre

i was a bit worried there, glad you liked it. im trying to get my gf into it and was hoping this movie would do the trick.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

A few people have mentioned enjoying the work of the actor who played Khan.

For me, he was the only problem with the move. Complete crap.Terrible, terrible over-acting.

But, I'm not a hard core Trekkie, so that could be why the rest of the move left me satisfied.

augustine · Joined: 08 Sep 2012 Location: México

KimchiNinja · Joined: 01 May 2012 Location: Gangnam

Meh I thought it was pretty good, except for the bad guy.

The original Khan was great, loads of character and depth.

The new Khan is crap, no personality, all surface no depth, pretty boy silliness. Total fail.

Went home and watched the original Wrath of Khan, odd how they borrowed so much, but instead of Kirk going into the radiation room it was Spock this time. Is this cause JJ Abrams doesn't have an original idea in his head?

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:09 pm Post subject:

I know it's TNG canon, but Cumberbatch would have probably made a better super-Borg type enemy. Not because his acting is bad or anything, it's just the whole ultra-human premise would have worked better there. I would imagine the TNG Borg arc probably has its roots in the Khan arc, actually. It wouldn't even need to be giant box Borg either, it could be an early times thing.

Or hell, even Q would have been a better fit for Cumberbatch's performance. He just has this whole impervious and calculating thing going on and I don't recall Khan being like that in Wrath of Khan.

rollo · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: China

Geez, even the original t.v. show was cheesy. this is not Shakespeare. Dear God!!

That plastic paper mache set on the original with all the blinking lights anything would be an improvement.

dairyairy · Joined: 17 May 2012 Location: South Korea

It was good enough considering it's the only Star Trek series out there, right now. Maybe you would have liked it more if you had seen it in 3-D or if Scotty had been battling zombies instead of getting drunk. YOU know what I'm talking about, DON'T you? Very Happy

BTW, old time Trekkies, didn't Khan kick Carol Marcus in the stomach? Wouldn't that possibly prevent her from eventually having David with Kirk? Just wondering why that was thrown in.

waynehead · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno

I'm a huge star trek fan, especially DS9. I don't ever plan on seeing this. Maybe if it's on TV someday or something, but even then I'd probably rather not.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:57 pm Post subject:

Steelrails · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System

I think the uptight fans, myself included, are probably people more reared on The Next Generation than The Original Series. It wasn't until TNG that you really started to get the puritan strain of Star Trek fans. I mean, an episode of TNG often involved people sitting around a conference table and a lab for 10-20 minutes an episode discussing the right and wrong of what was going on. Sometimes entire episodes were little more than debates taking place in various parts of the ship.

People whose favorite episodes are centered around debates on the sentience and human rights of androids, whether or not to use a weapon of mass destruction on the Borg, and the finer points of non-interference are not likely to be thrilled with latest incarnation of Star Trek. The issue with the torpedoes and whether or not to use them would have been an hour long episode on TNG, it was a 10 minute segue in the movie.