The One Redeeming Attribute Gene Roddenberry Noticed In Superstar Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

The tale of “Wrath of Khan,” as many know, stuck up with the lonely villain Khan, left on the earth Ceti Alpha V next the occasions of the actual sequence episode “Space Seed” (February 16, 1967). The planet suffered an environmental cataclysm in the intervening time, escape Khan and his retinue stranded on a demise desolate tract global. Disappointed that Kirk (William Shatner) by no means to investigate cross-check him, Khan steals a Federation starship the use of abnormal brain-manipulating earworms to keep watch over Starfleet officials. He units about on a undertaking of revenge. 

Revenge tales are nice fodder for motion motion pictures, however Roddenberry didn’t need “Star Trek II” to be an motion movie. Like “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” he would have most popular one thing headier and extra in line with sci-fi concepts. Roddenberry hated the general script for “Khan,” feeling the discussion to be tacky. He was once quoted as pronouncing: 

“I think it was an exciting picture. […] I had many problems with it, though. I thought they were very lucky they had the actor they did in Ricardo Montalbán to play Khan since it was not a well-written part. ‘I will chase you through the moons of Jupiter’ and so on, in the hands of almost any other actor would have gotten snickers from the audience. Montalbán saved their ass. Khan was not written as an exciting character, he was rather flimsy. The Khan in the TV episode was a much deeper and better character than the movie Khan, except that Montalbán pulled it off.” 

Khan’s series was once in truth “I’ll chase him round the moons of Nibia and ’round the Antares maelstrom and ’round perdition’s flames before I give him up,” however one can see Roddenberry’s level.