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Star
Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
In Nicholas Meyer's superior sequel to the first installment:
- the frightening scene of genetically-engineered
superhuman Khan's (Ricardo Montalban) description of horrifying
Ceti eels that he placed into the ears of crew-members Officer
Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Captain Terrell (Paul Winfield): "their
young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral
cortex" - to control their minds: "This has the effect
of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later,
as they grow follows madness and death"
- the scene of Enterprise Admiral James T.
Kirk's (William Shatner) conversation with a gloating and vengeful
Khan when he believed he had stranded Kirk on the barren planet of
Regula: (Khan: "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." Kirk (shouting back): "KHAAANNNN!
KHAAANNNN!")
- the revelation of the Genesis Cave - opening into
a lush biosystems paradise
- the great sacrificial death scene of pointy-eared
Vulcan Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from radiation poisoning to
save the U.S.S. Enterprise (and provide it with warp speed)
after the venomous Khan decided to blow up his own spaceship with
the Genesis torpedo device and thereby also destroy the Enterprise
- Kirk's simple "No" as he watched Spock
die
- the intimate scene of Kirk's heartfelt eulogy for
Spock during a funeral ("Of all the souls I have encountered,
his was the most... human")
- Spock's send-off into space to orbit a newly-birthed
planet
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