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velocirapture
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08 Jun 2013, 10:59 pm

I hope there's some pon faar in the next one.



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09 Jun 2013, 1:57 pm

velocirapture wrote:
I hope there's some pon faar in the next one.


yuck, you are perv, you knew :D



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27 Jun 2013, 5:16 am

Saw this yesterday. Cumberbatch was excellent as Khan, as was Quinto as Spock. I wasn't expecting Nimoy's cameo, but I loved it.



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03 Jul 2013, 12:17 am

While it was cute, khan was called john harrison, like his TOS firat script name john erickson? , im curious,was his racial change explained in the film?



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03 Jul 2013, 12:21 am

^That reminded me of a bit a slight plot hole I noticed a while back between Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: TNG, how is it Dr. Noonian Soon, who was in prison in Star Trek: Enterprise (I think it was for illegal genetic research or something), at around the age of 30-40, and he was alive until a fair way into TNG (having switched to more legal research)?


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04 Jul 2013, 3:59 am

First things first: Klingon ridges? I don't think there are any words to describe my opinion on what they did to the Klingons' heads...

Second: didn't anyone else find Khan a bit weepy?

Thirdly: the characters were not themselves as they were in TOS. Granted, this is an alternate timeline and everyone is a lot younger, so they may yet grow into these more mature characters. The franchise 'has' to be updated to be a box office hit, but I think it lost something in that.


On Kirk attacking Khan on the Klingon planet, again alternate timeline, but the original Kirk would not have done this I think. In one episode of TOS, Spock asked Kirk if he really wanted to kill [that person], to which Kirk replied "Yes I did. But man has learned to surpass his instinct", even when he thought a close member of his crew dead.

If I were a critic (albeit biased towards Trek), I would give it one of the highest ratings I have ever given a film.


One of my favourite lines from the film: "Can you stop with the damn metaphors, Bones!"


And on why Khan was white and not Mexican (yes, and Indian character played by Ricardo Montalban), a lot of British ex-pats live in India, and over time, have acquired or been given Indian names through marriage or birth. Just like it's not uncommon to find a thoroughly Indian man named George Smith.