Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Difference between revisions

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** People fail to remember that {{spoiler|Kirk is intentionally over-doing it. He's got an escape plan.}}

** Subverted by all things with the [[Little No]] moment when {{spoiler|Spock dies. Shatner instead moans a soft understated "No", which shows just how ''hard'' Kirk is taking the loss of his closest friend.}}

* [[Birth Death Juxtaposition]]: "And yet it should be noted, that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect."

* [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]: "And yet it should be noted, that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect."

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Kirk escapes [[The Chessmaster|Khan]], but Spock dies repairing the Enterprise to make it happen}}. In a way this means Khan succeeds in revenging himself upon [[The Kirk|Kirk]], {{spoiler|as Spock's death is [[Fate Worse Than Death|by far the worst injury he could have inflicted]] upon Kirk.}}

* [[Bottle Episode]]: A movie version. Paramount was determined to save money after spending $40 million on ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' (including development on the aborted ''Star Trek: Phase II'' TV series), which is why Bennet hired a production team with mainly TV movie experience, reused [[Stock Footage]] from the first movie, and Meyer wrote the script so that a majority of the scenes would be shot on the ''Enterprise'' bridge set (which was also redressed as the ''Reliant'' bridge).

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* [[Faking the Dead]]: Spock supposedly dies at the beginning of the film. {{spoiler|This scene was concocted hastily by Nick Meyer after hearing that spoilers had leaked about Spock dying in the film. To preserve the wham factor of Spock dying, the Kobayashi Maru and its disastrous aftermath was added to fool viewers into thinking that this was the "Spock dies" moment the spoilers meant.}}

* [[Fake Nationality]]: Carrying over from [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|"Space Seed"]], Mexican Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien ''Singh''.

* [[False Flag Operation]]: Khan and his crew using the hijacked USS ''Reliant'' to sneak up on the unsuspecting USS ''Enterprise''.

* [[False-Flag Operation]]: Khan and his crew using the hijacked USS ''Reliant'' to sneak up on the unsuspecting USS ''Enterprise''.

* [[Famous Famous Fictional]]: "Newton, Einstein, Surak."

* [[Famous, Famous, Fictional]]: "Newton, Einstein, Surak."

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The wrath of Khan]]. [[Shout Out|Like]] [[Moby Dick|Ahab]] [[Shout Out|before him]], his all-consuming desire for revenge on Kirk ultimately gets in the way of his better judgement and ends up destroying him.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The wrath of Khan]]. [[Shout-Out|Like]] [[Moby Dick|Ahab]] [[Shout-Out|before him]], his all-consuming desire for revenge on Kirk ultimately gets in the way of his better judgement and ends up destroying him.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Ricardo Montalban's monologue on the subject is just fantastic.

{{quote| "I've done far worse than ''kill'' you. I've ''hurt'' you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you, as you left me... as you left ''her''. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet... Buried alive... ''buried alive...''"}}

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** Though it's the most famous example of [[Large Ham]] ever, [[Fridge Brilliance]] reveals it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] in retrospect: {{spoiler|Kirk, who actually has a backup plan, is ''acting'' in order to convince Khan that he's won -- in other words, he's hamming it up deliberately.}}

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Khan and his crew being trapped for 15 years on a desolate world.

* [[Sealed Good in A Can]]: Khan attempts to do this, [[Out Gambitted|but Kirk has other plans.]]

* [[Sealed Good in A Can]]: Khan attempts to do this, [[Out-Gambitted|but Kirk has other plans.]]

* [[Self Disposing Villain]]: Khan attempts to [[Taking You With Me|take Kirk with him]]. It doesn't turn out as planned.

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: The most famous of which is Khan recognizing Chekov, even though the character wasn't in "Space Seed".

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** Koenig was joking, of course, but it's entirely possible that Chekov was a junior officer on the ''Enterprise'' at the time of "Space Seed", and only later got promoted to the bridge crew (and thus became an on-screen character).

*** This is explicitly the case in the novelization: it describes Chekov having an encounter with Khan while still a junior officer assigned to the overnight watch on the bridge.

* [[Shout Out]]: Multiple direct references to ''[[Moby Dick]]'' and ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', the two books which represent Khan (irrationally obsessed with revenge) and Kirk (coming to terms with his own mortality).

* [[Shout-Out]]: Multiple direct references to ''[[Moby Dick]]'' and ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', the two books which represent Khan (irrationally obsessed with revenge) and Kirk (coming to terms with his own mortality).

** The concentric tubes of the Genesis control panel resemble the ones that Ripley uses to activate the self-destruct sequence in [[Alien]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: According to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9qSLYK5q4 this short documentary], the ILM team that put together the Genesis proposal scenes used the stars as seen from Epsilon Indi (a nearby K-class dwarf) as the background. The Sun is visible toward the end below the Genesis planet as an extra star in the Big Dipper.