Factoid: Ricardo Montalban volunteered to discount his salary to 100K so the film's budget could accommodate all the expensive FX features it needed. He enjoyed playing Khan so much the role wasn't about money for him.
I wouldn't blame him either. Up to that point he was known as either Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island or the man who hocked 'fine Corinthian leather' for Chrysler. Returning as Khan made him a legend. He really played an excellent villain. He hit it big again a few years later as the villian in The Naked Gun. An audience loves to see a normally good man play someone evil.
This is how you create drama. Instead of keeping secrets from the audience to try to surprise them, keep secrets from the characters to build the tension.
Sadly nobody in Hollywood knows how to write this kind of thing anymore. This one scene is better than everything Star Trek has shit out in the last ten years combined.
Khan's background was suspected to be Sikh, from the northern region of India. Ricardo Montalbán was the son of Spanish immigrant parents, so not very real.
@@brasidas33 there is a big Star Trek Khan Theory going around. That he wasn't actually Khan, but was a loyal standen so people wouldn't figure out Khan's real identity. Khan Noonien Singh took over a quarter of the planet through the shadows and the manipulation of the government's moving people around because he was just so intelligent he knew and could predict what people we're going to do. playing chess if you will.
By today's standards, this was filmed on a ridiculously small budget, yet it is widely regarded as the best Star Trek film ever made. There is a lesson to be learned here!
An unsung hero is James Horner’s score through this entire scene. It’s subconsciously telling us the story without any words. One of my favourite movie scores of all time.
The best Star Trek movie ever. I found out recently that Ricardo shot all his footage in a totally different sound stage due to his Fantasy Island schedule being so tight. This plus the pay cut he took (that someone else mentioned) gives me loads of respect for the man.
The lack of a direct physical confrontation between Kirk and Kahn didn’t hurt the film one iota but in retrospect it would have been impactful if such a scene existed. Perhaps Khan would have beamed Kirk over to the Reliant and imprisoned him In the brig. Khan might have roughed Kirk up a little. Members of the Enterprise crew would have had to sneak on board Reliant somehow to mount a rescue. But like I said, a direct confrontation between the two never felt necessary during the many times that I have seen this masterpiece.
@@bratton79 I disagree. Your scenario wouldn't make it for me. I would only like a face to face if it came down to matching wits and Kirk won that way. Someone had to outsmart the other. Your way, he needed help from his crew to win. That doesn't work with the storyline thay built.
This film also shows how you don't need the 10 minute long fist fight between the protagonist and antagonist on a speeding craft flying through some alien landscape with a doomsday button and doomsday countdown. Khan and Kirk never occupy the same room yet the tension between them is incredible.
Let’s not overlook the main lesson here: The entire event could’ve been avoided had Kirk simply raised the shields like regulations stated. Saavik was right. 😐
I would have likely stumbled towards home and ended up in a ditch. Only to be rescued by paramedics 2 days later. Good thing I was a kid and wasn't allowed to watch it until the library had it on VHS a few years later.
@@davidhazel5854 Read that she demanded a huge raise to be on the next Star Trek movie, was told to take a hike (they got someone else to play her part).
@@dwmzmm Because she asked for a higher fee for the sequel, or because she was a woman asking for a higher fee? Plenty of male actors have done that, and been rehired at a higher fee.
@@davidhazel5854 Paramount's offer and Alley's agent's counteroffer were both ridiculous: Paramount offered her a pay CUT because "sequels make less money". Her agent then asked for a lot more money, which happened to be more than DeForest Kelley was making. The studio didn't counteroffer and recast, probably because the agent had unknowingly crossed a line that could upset how much the entire Star Trek cast cost going forward.
Maybe, but he and the crew looked so badass when they were planetside. The asymmetrical metal slit masks made the costume. ua-cam.com/video/MnvT0_dIIv4/v-deo.html
+ulphil08 And [KHAAAAAN!] put it on the "Crystal Key" program, which is a fully comprehensive maintenance program that beats anything the United Federation of Planets has. It will even cover damages that would otherwise decommission UFP ships!
+ulphil08 Lol, if he had waited with his revenge for a couple of more weeks and had enough paint, I'm pretty sure he would have done something like that! :D
I feel the Wrath of Khan is right up there, surely it represents some of the best of Star Trek. I don't feel First Contact is or has ever been in the running for 2nd best Trek film... I would agree it's a solid 3rd place; the Wrath of Khan and the Undiscovered Country duke it out for 1st & 2nd-- I certainly feel the Undiscovered Country is better than ANY of the next-gen movies; by a huge margin. The only trek films I dislike are the motion picture, and 5
@@Alan-tr5uj Final frontier a very underrated movie, had a lot of great acting in it. The story and the special effects were what weren't so great about it. The motion picture was a work of art, when you think about it all modern star trek is based on choices that were made in that movie.
@@westonstevens3239 For me, Final Frontier seems like it wasn't a completed work before they started filming. I can get past the lower budget special effects, BUT I simply cannot get past what I feel is an incomplete story; it seems like what we got was like a 3rd draft- and they said good enough... It needed to be tweaked- a few more revisions at minimum.
This is still my favorite Star Trek movie. Everything about it embodies an excellent drama. Even though I've seen this movie too many times to count, this scene still had me on the edge of my seat. I remember seeing this with my father in theaters when I was just a young pup.
This was at the local dollar movie house when I was in the 8th grade. Rode my bike to go see it with my best friend. We watched it 20+ times over the summer of 82.
Makes me think of a sick day from school when I was in the 7th grade way back in 1984. I had the house to myself and this was on HBO around 10am. I wasn't that sick and enjoyed this movie thoroughly! Some good times back in the 80s!
small memories are the best . One of mine was in 84 or 85 the school lost power , heading home , brand new on the shelf was Police Academy. Me and my buddy laughed our asses off
Your story and mine are VERY similar. I was 10 years old at the time, home sick, but healthy enough to watch this movie. I had always watched the the original series on TV, but this was my first exposure to the movies. I’ve been hooked ever since.
My favourite scene from this film is Kirk’s eulogy for Spock: “Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human.” Shatner’s voice breaking in the last phrase was acting perfection.
Ricardo Montalban did not play Khan. He freakin' MADE Kahn and no matter what great (or horrible) actor you try to replace him with or how great (or awful) a script you give for him to be in, it will never be the same. RIP Mr. Montalban, you were underrated and amazing.
@@marileestetson737 RIP to Jerry Goldsmith too. Can't forget Jane Wyatt, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Mark Lenard, John Coclios, William Campbell, Michael Ansara, Grace Lee Whitney, Paul Winfield, Brock Peters, Roger C. Carmel, Persis Khambatta, Arlene Martel, Madlyn Rhue, and Barry Jenner
Sulu: "Sir, you did it." Kirk: "I did nothing. Just got caught with my britches down. Saavik, you go right on quoting regulations." Love that last line.
One of the finest film sequences of all time, a combination of an incredible music score and performances from all contribute to an amazing performance. The line "Here it comes" is delivered with chilling understatement...
great line thanks for the reminder you watch it again and you appreciate it more with all this other crap the remakes of star trek star wars going down the toilet the original cast wil always be great
Absolutely. The interesting thing about that line, according to Nicholas Meyer, is that Shatner kept doing take after take telegraphing the line like "Here it COMMMMMMES!" until he finally got bored with it and just said it in a matter-of-fact way.
@@gkroll8467 That may explain why this movie played so well for people who don't even like Star Trek. Every time I run into someone that makes fun of the franchise but willing to give it a shot, I show them Wrath of Khan, and they immediately want to see the story continue with ST3.
Masterclass in film making right here. Every part is expertly done- flawless. Even the special effects hold up to this day. Modern day Trek directors need to re-watch it (or watch it for the first time) and take notes...
Love the score in this scene. "And its very cold in space . . . ." Cuts to a shot outside of the ship in space, the horns and strings shriek so violently, makes the hairs on your arms stand up and gives you the chills.
On top of that, it was low budget even for an 80's sci-fi movie made by a studio with known actors. Everything they pulled off on that production is remarkable.
He should've been nominated an Oscar for his role. Then again, he STILL might've been beaten out by Ben Kingsley for his role in "Gandhi", that came out the exact same year (1982).
Best thing about it is that he never acted with Shatner. All of Kirk’s lines were fed to Montalban by a script girl, and he STILL turned in a fantastic performance!
I remember how the audience cheered jubilantly when Kirk turned the tables on Khan in this scene - also at the end when Spock ended his narration and the credits rolled. To this day, I have never heard an ovation like that at the end of any other motion picture.
Now they are clouded in "Shadows and Dust", by that idiot JJ. So sad. The art is gone. No more beauty passes. Just confusion until you realise you wasted your money.
I swear Montalban absolutely relished his part. When I was a little kid I saw Khan as a genuinely scary character. Looking at it with grown up eyes, you see how he really made this part his own.
That is what made Ricardo Montalbán so good in his Fantasy Island role. He would talk to you with a smile, giving you what should be great news meanwhile you got chills when he said it from the threat in the delivery. He would have been a great Bond Villain.
+Robert Hickson I watched an interview with James Horner and he set up the music with purpose with Khan's and Kirk's music in opposition. Its a really cool interview
shaq mobile Jup. Mainly the next genearations movie besides First contact were all pretty much garbage. i like them anyway but they are not very good movies. TOS had it better in my opinion.
3.08.. where the trainee is screaming he can't breath and you hear Scotty shouting 'Use your respirators' Love that little moment showing the difference between an untested trainee and a veteran.
Movies like this one prove that it is not required to have amazing special effects to make a great movie. All that is required are engaging characters and great storytelling.
This film had amazing special effects for when it was released and it sure wowed me in the theater. The Genesis proposal was the first full length CGI sequence in a motion picture AFAIK.
A big part of why that sequence works is James Horner's great music. It really builds the suspense and excitement: "Time's up Admiral!" "Here it comes." Looove it.
and this scene is just the opening.. there's the starbase subterfuge, ending with the chase into the nebula, and the tense "hunter becoming the hunted" drama ...
I'll say the unpopular opinion that Wrath of Khan is NOT necessarily the best Star Trek movie ever made. But it is THE most EXCITING Star Trek movie ever made.
It was so good that it took 2 more movies to take care of the results of it (death/resurrection of Spock, returning to Earth to face the consequences of stealing the Enterprise).
I remember watching this in a VHS cassette together with my dad back in the 80s ... And I recall how captivated my old man was by this scene with the Reliant and Enterprise going side to side so when captain Kirk says "raise shields" my father stood up from the chair shouting "too late you idiot! too late!!" :D ... oh well. R.I.P dad
haha same with my Dad. VHS tape too! When we were kids, we knew he was into it when he kept saying "Kirk the effing greatest captain!". For which he is (F PICARD)
i remember watching this in the theater in the early 80s, and the audience was literally on its feet shouting and cheering during this scene.. James Horner's score, like that of the original Star Wars, made this movie come alive..
Horner connected script and emotion so beautifully, yet kept the epic structure due to his organized, structured signature. He went off to space too early...
Interesting to note, Horner was chosen for the score because they couldn't afford Jerry Goldsmith, who had done ST:TMP. Horner was way less-known at the time and therefore much cheaper. Thank heavens for tight budgets! I love Goldsmith, but the score from ST II & III are my favorites of the whole series of movies. Especially this scene, Battle in the Mutara Nebula & Genesis Countdown.
I still watch this in amazement to this day. I can recite this scene word for word before the words are spoken. This was perfect and the Score of this scene is also phenomenal. The music really builds the tension during Khan's attack. I have watched this many many times and I love it.
The editing is masterful. _"...it is very cold...in space."_ And smash cut to the two ships powering towards each other, Khan's motif roaring. And cut to Kirk, beginning, too slowly, to realize something's amiss, as his own motif, the movie's theme, rises in the score in response.
Arguably? It's clearly the best. In fact, without it, there probably would be no others, as ST:TMP was a big disappointment, and they really needed this film to succeed in both box office receipts and with fan and wider audience interest.
What's great about this scene is seeing two old adversaries using their cunning and experience to get the better of each other rather than just slugging it out. Each one makes moves and mistakes that are understandable and not plot contrivances. Kirk is too trusting at the beginning and gets hit whereas Khan in his haste for revenge overlooked changing the codes or learning everything about his commandeered ship.
They only raise shields right before an attack. Don't ask me why, considering their power source is infinite and there's episodes where they've kept them up for days at a time.
A great depiction of Kirk's edge being dulled by sitting in an office for so many years. As soon as Spock said "Their shields are going up", Kirk should've seen what was coming and raised the Enterprise's shields. That small moment of indecision cost his crew a lot.
i mean in his defense, he did order yellow alert, and the defense fields did go up in some capacity which prevented the ship from being completely annihilated.
No matter how many times i see this film, when spock calls kirk his friend, just before he passes away saving the enterprise always gets me, pure emotion, 😢
The scene from 4:09 to 4:19, with the music as the Reliant is circling around, just leaves chills in me. Truly this fight is a classic submarine vs. submarine battle in space. Such an awesome scene in an awesome movie.
I do like myself a good large-scale space battle with ridiculous numbers of ships firing lasers and torpedoes, but I also like the slower sequence of tension and buildup in a scene like this, ever harder to find today
BTL Y-Wing - me too. I feel the same exact way. Take even the battles in the JJ/Kelvin-verse/timeline movies and even the ST Discovery "Battlr at the Binary Stars" - just phaser or laser or whatever beams flying back and forth. Almost as bad as watching a horrible Transformers movie. Sometimes I just want two capital naval ships like this, seeing where the beams emit from, hit and impact, etc vs the frantic can't tell what from what of today ST.
If I remember right, the director (Nicholas Meyer?) specifically designed the battle scenes to resemble real life naval tactics & engagements. A shame most current day directors are too shallow to do this or spend much time trying to make their battles believable. Just pew, pew, pew, and boom.
i remember the feeling in the theater when the enterprise started firing it was a feeling of elation it was like everybody knew the franchise was back BIGTIME THIS WAS STAR TREK THE WAY IT SHOULD BE
I wish i was old enough to see and appreciate these films in the cinema. I feel i really missed the Golden Age of movies. Especially with the crap that's coming out now...
@@perfectionbox Nearly every single episode of the original '60s TV show had a gunfight, a fistfight or a starship battle. _The Motion Picture_ was a departure, if one I appreciate. _Wrath of Khan's_ mix of sci-fi, action, horror and humor was a return to form. It's in part because the writer-director was new to the show and sat down to watch it with fresh eyes. Without pop culture blinders, he saw it for what it was.
Unquestionably the best of the Star Trek films. This is the film that introduced the Kobayashi Maru scenario and this scene shows us Kirk's character and why he was given special commendation for cheating on the test: James T. Kirk never gives up. Here he is totally beaten in a surprise attack, forced to beg for mercy, but he's still fighting, still leading his crew, still trying to win. And then he does win and Khan is forced to retreat. When later Kirk says to Savok "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" the audience knows it's true, because we've seen it.
Best of the Trek movies. The great, suave, foreign (and thus, to Americans, innately sinister) actor Ricardo Montalban chews up the scenery as 20th-Century megalomaniac Khan Noonien Singh. Seeing he and Shatner together on-screen is a real treat.
+Ragitsu Oh look, another brainwashed libtard that slanders people with namecalling bacause they don't agree with them (and yes I called you a name and it's deserved judging from your comment). So what BS name will you call me eh....xenophobe, racist, sexist, bigot, all of the above? That crap isn't working like it once did on people and it will never work on me no matter who is in the White House so go fuck yourself.
The score in this scene so perfectly matches and heightens every moment, it's kind of breath-taking. From the tension mounting ticking-clock rhythm to the unease of the strings as the Enterprise tries to figure out the mystery of the silent ship, then through to the driven momentum of the chaotic scenes of destruction... awesome. Then we get a breathing space and then almost a proud whimsy as Kirk's guile and Starfleet savvy over-matches Khan's arrogance. Indeed it is Hornblower in space!
@@geoffwilliams4478 Now Mr. Spock.. Spock enters the combination and then cut to the first officer for Khan: Our shields are dropping. Khan with the most surprised look says, Raise Them!! What a great great scene.
One of the cool things in this battle is the way the ships are capable of taking abuse. Even with the shields down they don't just blow up. It takes sustained damage to disable them, making it a battle of tactics and attrition.
This is because in Roddenberry's mind ; Starships were extremely large battleships. It was only the current generation of crap director's like JJ which do not understand anything about Star Trek.
@@grast5150 Exactly. Starships were a battleship chassis with peaceful exploration features built on top of it. They could give and take damage when called upon to do so, but the Federation preferred to not have to use that capability.
Realistic weapons for non-combat type ships. They lose the plot now with more weapons than a ship could possibly carry. Also the chaos of no discipline.
Federation ships have no armor to speak of so without their shields they are like shooting cardboard, but yup, unless you hit certain specific spots, they can take a beating. Punch them full of holes and they keep going. Just don't hit the warp core directly or the anti-matter pods or plumbing. Hit those and this goes boomb.
My favorite sequence of any Star Trek production. The special effects were not as good as Star Wars at the time, but the intellectual battle, the exact detail that allowed the Enterprise to escape, and the subtleties of character make this sequence just epic. I loved it as a kid, and I still love it today. And the music - it could not have been better.
Call me crazy, but this era of Star Trek (ST II-VI) and the Federation is my favorite. I love the Miranda Class ship and these Starfleet uniforms are my favorite.
I always loved the uniforms from Star Trek 2 to Star Trek 6. Then I grow to appreciate the ones from Star Trek first Contact to current. I guess I find them more practical?
Why crazy? Don't cave to all the limp Next Generation sychpohants and don't apologize for it. Be proud of your appreciation of TOS and the fact that it can't be topped. TNG sucked.
@@theQuestion626 Ricardo was badass but so is Cumberbatch though I see Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan more like Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars's Timothy Zah novels
This scene is an all time favorite. Excellent actors. Compelling storyline. Building up of tension. Amazing music perfectly captures the mood or feel of the scene.
'He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!' Kahn talks shit as well as anyone.
Everything here is perfect. The performances, the dialogue, James Horner's absolutely brilliant score, etc. But, what I think really makes this, is the editing. The cutting is flawless. The seamless transitions, they perfectly highten the tension. Couple that with Horner's perfect score, and you have a damn near perfect scene. I especially like the shift in tone as Reliant's phasers start to slice open Enterprise's hull. Like her arteries are being opened. You can feel her bleeding.
There was a sweet spot with visual effects, when they started to look realistic, but before everyone went CGI-crazy. During that period, good storytelling and acting were still the essential ingredients of a good movie. Nowadays, CGI is often used as an alternative to a good, coherent story. If this film were remade now, it almost certainly wouldn't be anywhere near as good.
Everything about this is perfect writing. Its not just the combat, but the idea that Kirk in his prime wouldn't have been caught out by this. Kirk is old. The Enterprise is old. The crew is inexperienced. This isn't the ship that we saw during TOS. They took the risky route of moving things on and showing the crew in a different time of their lives. They made the good guys weak and the bad guys smart. Then they gave the good guys an escape that made sense and one that the bad guys couldn't be able to predict. This film is rightly considered a sci-fi classic. Its not just the action. Every scene in this film has a narrative purpose. Nothing is superfluous. It only more films were made like this today.
I saw it a dozen times at the movie theatres, including my colleges theatre. When the ship took off, the ROTC guys and ladies yelled "airborne!" And the ones in the front-including us-yelled "all the way!" I even heard one guy 2 seats down say "Man, that's a hot Vulcan!" when Saavik was in the turbolift with Kirk. I told him to read the novel. He did. Same response, even though she was just going to tutor Peter Preston.
I'm jealous. I first saw this when I rented it from a Blockbuster. Fell in love with Star Trek instantly and have watched all the TV shows and movies, with the exception of STD.
Almost ten minutes of goosebumps, from the acting to the twists and Horner's superb score. This bit sums up what makes Star Trek's space battles so fun.
James Horner was the KING of - exciting build-up to a 'moment' music ... That piece featured here when they send the code to drop Reliant's shield's ... similar to the music from Aliens heard during the double climax of the film. Nobody comes close when it comes to a spine-tingling score!
I couldn't agree more. I'm a little obsessed with his early stuff -- he made some soundtracks that were way better than the actual films they were for, like Krull and Battle Beyond the Stars. But when his talent was paired with a great movie like Wrath of Khan and Aliens, there was nothing like it!
Brilliant callback at 3:45. Khan's crew knows where to hit Enterprise because Khan's conquest of Kirk's ship began when Kirk let him take a look at the ship's schematics, figuring a man frozen for centuries couldn't do any harm with them. It's an effective strike, but it's also Khan taunting Kirk: just as in their first encounter, he's lulled Kirk into a false sense of security, slipping behind his defenses.
@@MegaZeta yeah, and who could forget the famous line " Khan, i'm laughing in the face of the superior intellect", Kirk definitely knew how to push his buttons lol
I was a major Star Wars fanboy, but I've been getting into Star Trek for the past few weeks. Bought the bluray of Wrath of Khan earlier this week. Really liked it.
Next Gen is what turned me, I still like star wars because of the mythos but star trek has far superior dialogue and a more cohesive story arc that doesn't revolve around a space wizard family affair.
What can you say, such a tight piece of film making. Shatner the Ham putting in his most subtle performance (despite the KHAAAN!) and Montalban chewing the scenery in all right places. Its a real theatrical film. Its what annoys me about the efforts to recapture it (Nemesis, Into Darkness) they attempt a literal translation of a space battle in a nebula and a grudge without bothering to consider the emotional motivation. That and Montalban quoting Moby Dick and Paradise Lost is just badass.
That last one is probably the most important in terms of subtlety. Khan is not simply quoting those books just to sound like he's well read. He's quoting those books because for 15 years those books were all he had and all he knew. They molded his hatred for Kirk and gave it a strange symbiosis. The later forms mentioned are like a poor Xerox with no depth to them because they don't understand that you have to give your characters proper context and motivation for the things that they say and do.
This is the best movie of all the Star Treks in the original cast, the next generation and the re-boot Star Trek. The same director came back and did Star Trek 6 Undiscovered Country, which is also very good.
Y'know, the chaos in Engineering after the Reliant's first phaser hits on the Enterprise, the airtight bulkheads slowly closing, the engineering crew and Scotty donning respirators...it's among the most "naval-feeling" scenes in ST history. It's the engine-room crew of a World War II cruiser that's just taken a torpedo hit and is sealing off watertight doors to prevent flooding and struggling to keep up steam and electrical power and keep the ship afloat and fighting, while the men frantically scramble not to get caught on the wrong side of those doors lest they die. ST's very rarely gritty and realistic but that scene is about as close as they ever got.
So true. Big budget. I think we all know television has to keep it simple and makes space less dangerous. Have you watch the television show “the expanse”? I really like their depiction of how dangerous it can be in space
Factoid: Ricardo Montalban volunteered to discount his salary to 100K so the film's budget could accommodate all the expensive FX features it needed. He enjoyed playing Khan so much the role wasn't about money for him.
If you really ENJOY and like what you do... you will never work a day in your life... R.I.P Ricardo Montalban.
Douglas Lally I did not know this! Thanks...and RIP RM.
I wouldn't blame him either. Up to that point he was known as either Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island or the man who hocked 'fine Corinthian leather' for Chrysler.
Returning as Khan made him a legend. He really played an excellent villain. He hit it big again a few years later as the villian in The Naked Gun. An audience loves to see a normally good man play someone evil.
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Lol he had been in movies for decades, he was fine.
All he wanted was his vengeance on William Shatner ?
Whether you’re a Trekkie or not, I honestly believe this is one of the best movies ever made, an absolute masterpiece.
Agreed as someone who is more a fan of the first 6 Star Wars movies. There ARE five original timeline Trek movies I really like, however.
Totally agreed
If anyone asks me my favorite movie I have decided that THIS one will Always be my answer.
Makes no sense or impact to a non-trekkie. I would not attend a baseball game as I hate baseball.
The best hero bad guy movie ever. Close second is die hard and John wick original.
This is how you create drama. Instead of keeping secrets from the audience to try to surprise them, keep secrets from the characters to build the tension.
Sadly nobody in Hollywood knows how to write this kind of thing anymore. This one scene is better than everything Star Trek has shit out in the last ten years combined.
And make the entire crew completely clueless.
There's a balancing act. I hate when characters are so clueless that there's no way they'd be on a starship etc ;p
👏🏻👏🏻 amen to that
Now they only do reboot or remakes and silly prequels, Or a remake of a reboot of a sequel like the cumberbach one.
That epic score! R.I.P. James Horner. legend
I know right. I fell in love with music because of him.
Truly.
Without it....
Static.
yes one of the best scores ever!
Hear hear amazing soundtrack one of my most listened to
The music at 9:22 reminds me of the opening score to Mysterious Island.
Still the best of all Star Trek movies.
Sorry J.J but this is the real Khan.
hell right!!!!
Khan's background was suspected to be Sikh, from the northern region of India. Ricardo Montalbán was the son of Spanish immigrant parents, so not very real.
@Dennis Vance lol. Good point well made.
@@brasidas33 there is a big Star Trek Khan Theory going around.
That he wasn't actually Khan, but was a loyal standen so people wouldn't figure out Khan's real identity.
Khan Noonien Singh took over a quarter of the planet through the shadows and the manipulation of the government's moving people around because he was just so intelligent he knew and could predict what people we're going to do.
playing chess if you will.
@Dennis Vance Seriously underrated comment.
By today's standards, this was filmed on a ridiculously small budget, yet it is widely regarded as the best Star Trek film ever made. There is a lesson to be learned here!
It's ALL about the story!!!Damn the special effects!
@@144Donn , what are you talking, TWOK's special effects are awesome.
Yep good writing trumps better so effects everytime.
The conflict was real and the cost to both sides was very high, good writing all around!
Hence why Episode 1 just sucked. Lucas forgot his own mantra, story over SFX!!! 🤦🏻♂️
Even after 40yrs this sequence raises the hairs on the back of my neck. And Kirks "here it comes" line so dryly delivered....just greatness.
Though not very long, this is one of the best space battles ever made.
gotta love that music with it too
I do like Wrath of Kahn but the next movie was the best for me. Remembering watching this with my mother who grew up watching the shows.
The Starfleet battles game describes life on board a starship as six months boredom, and six minutes stark screaming terror.
Apparently, it took quite a few takes of Shatner saying “Here it comes.” before we got what we saw onscreen.
An unsung hero is James Horner’s score through this entire scene. It’s subconsciously telling us the story without any words. One of my favourite movie scores of all time.
Had the same thought. Perfection in movie scoring. You rarely see (hear it) this good.
And he was an absolute nobody who turned this movie into a beautiful space opera. What a shame he got a swollen head.
1000000% agree!!! The musical score adds emotion depth excitement tension and more!!!!!
1000%. The score for this film was outstanding.
Yes and similar to ALIENS
The best Star Trek movie ever. I found out recently that Ricardo shot all his footage in a totally different sound stage due to his Fantasy Island schedule being so tight. This plus the pay cut he took (that someone else mentioned) gives me loads of respect for the man.
The lack of a direct physical confrontation between Kirk and Kahn didn’t hurt the film one iota but in retrospect it would have been impactful if such a scene existed. Perhaps Khan would have beamed Kirk over to the Reliant and imprisoned him In the brig. Khan might have roughed Kirk up a little. Members of the Enterprise crew would have had to sneak on board Reliant somehow to mount a rescue. But like I said, a direct confrontation between the two never felt necessary during the many times that I have seen this masterpiece.
@@bratton79 I disagree. Your scenario wouldn't make it for me. I would only like a face to face if it came down to matching wits and Kirk won that way. Someone had to outsmart the other. Your way, he needed help from his crew to win. That doesn't work with the storyline thay built.
This film also shows how you don't need the 10 minute long fist fight between the protagonist and antagonist on a speeding craft flying through some alien landscape with a doomsday button and doomsday countdown. Khan and Kirk never occupy the same room yet the tension between them is incredible.
Khan and Phil Collins both want Genesis 😊
Awwww, Rest in Peace Kirstie Alley, You are missed.
Let’s not overlook the main lesson here:
The entire event could’ve been avoided had Kirk simply raised the shields like regulations stated.
Saavik was right. 😐
Being boastful is what did in Khan too which was stupid on his part...I would've blasted the Enterprise to hell.
That's OKAY. Am I the onlly one left on earth, who uses IMAGINATION? What is the obsession with "reality"? Who CARES?
Or thrown Khan and his people out of the airlock when they first encountered them, rather than just exiling them.
ALWAYS TRUST A PRETTY OFFICER
If Kirk had listened to Saavik we wouldn't have had this outstanding movie.
This movie is 40 years old this year....first movie I went to by myself and walked home....pure magic, favorite star trek movie by far.
Mine, too….it was superior
lucky person, i only remember watching it at home when i dad used to watch it on TV
"Your's is the Superior intellect."
Back when you could stuff like that.
I would have likely stumbled towards home and ended up in a ditch. Only to be rescued by paramedics 2 days later. Good thing I was a kid and wasn't allowed to watch it until the library had it on VHS a few years later.
Hard to believe Kirstie Allie is gone now. Love this movie.
I was sorry when they replaced her in the next film.
@@davidhazel5854 Read that she demanded a huge raise to be on the next Star Trek movie, was told to take a hike (they got someone else to play her part).
@@dwmzmm Because she asked for a higher fee for the sequel, or because she was a woman asking for a higher fee? Plenty of male actors have done that, and been rehired at a higher fee.
@@davidhazel5854 Paramount's offer and Alley's agent's counteroffer were both ridiculous: Paramount offered her a pay CUT because "sequels make less money". Her agent then asked for a lot more money, which happened to be more than DeForest Kelley was making. The studio didn't counteroffer and recast, probably because the agent had unknowingly crossed a line that could upset how much the entire Star Trek cast cost going forward.
@@davidhazel5854 Why do female porn actress get paid 4 times as much as the men?
Khan's crew looks like a 80s rock band.
Yeah especially khan. He definitely looks like some rock band star I seen but can't think of the name....
@@Antimatter050 :Nikki Sixx & some others, maybe Bon Jovi
Maybe, but he and the crew looked so badass when they were planetside. The asymmetrical metal slit masks made the costume. ua-cam.com/video/MnvT0_dIIv4/v-deo.html
Maybe a LBGT rock band ;
Khan and the Genetics!
As soon as Khan took command of the Reliant he upgraded the Captain's chair with Fine Corinthian Leather ;)
+Mudder Fukker And renamed the ship "The Cordoba"
+ulphil08 And [KHAAAAAN!] put it on the "Crystal Key" program, which is a fully comprehensive maintenance program that beats anything the United Federation of Planets has. It will even cover damages that would otherwise decommission UFP ships!
+ulphil08 Lol, if he had waited with his revenge for a couple of more weeks and had enough paint, I'm pretty sure he would have done something like that! :D
Mudder Fukker HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rich Corinthian leather, it's rich Corinthian leather
In my opinion, Wrath of Khan was the best Star Trek movie ever made.
Your opinion is shared by most trekkies. And I would definitely concur. First Contact the second best.
I feel the Wrath of Khan is right up there, surely it represents some of the best of Star Trek. I don't feel First Contact is or has ever been in the running for 2nd best Trek film... I would agree it's a solid 3rd place; the Wrath of Khan and the Undiscovered Country duke it out for 1st & 2nd-- I certainly feel the Undiscovered Country is better than ANY of the next-gen movies; by a huge margin. The only trek films I dislike are the motion picture, and 5
@@Alan-tr5uj Final frontier a very underrated movie, had a lot of great acting in it. The story and the special effects were what weren't so great about it. The motion picture was a work of art, when you think about it all modern star trek is based on choices that were made in that movie.
And he wasn't the best khan too.
@@westonstevens3239 For me, Final Frontier seems like it wasn't a completed work before they started filming. I can get past the lower budget special effects, BUT I simply cannot get past what I feel is an incomplete story; it seems like what we got was like a 3rd draft- and they said good enough... It needed to be tweaked- a few more revisions at minimum.
This movie single-handedly saved the franchise
And Nimoy`s career, as he quit after this movie. But came back after its success at the box office...
This is a classic.
@trf12567 we don't talk about that movie.
@trf12567
Nothing wrong with the Motion Picture.
As a kid, seeing the Enterprise getting jacked up like that, was just 😮
This is still my favorite Star Trek movie. Everything about it embodies an excellent drama. Even though I've seen this movie too many times to count, this scene still had me on the edge of my seat.
I remember seeing this with my father in theaters when I was just a young pup.
I can watch this in my head I dont need a screen
This was at the local dollar movie house when I was in the 8th grade. Rode my bike to go see it with my best friend. We watched it 20+ times over the summer of 82.
My only criticism is that Kahn usurped a Dakota to saying for a Klingon one.
Emperor James agreed!
great film
Montalban was underrated as an actor, he was magnificent here.
Makes me think of a sick day from school when I was in the 7th grade way back in 1984. I had the house to myself and this was on HBO around 10am. I wasn't that sick and enjoyed this movie thoroughly! Some good times back in the 80s!
You should have snuck a girlfriend over and play doctor with her you have one hell of a story to tell
small memories are the best . One of mine was in 84 or 85 the school lost power , heading home , brand new on the shelf was Police Academy. Me and my buddy laughed our asses off
slacker
Your story and mine are VERY similar. I was 10 years old at the time, home sick, but healthy enough to watch this movie.
I had always watched the the original series on TV, but this was my first exposure to the movies. I’ve been hooked ever since.
DId that many times. Too sick for school, but NOT HBO movies!
My favourite scene from this film is Kirk’s eulogy for Spock:
“Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human.”
Shatner’s voice breaking in the last phrase was acting perfection.
Welp, you're making me cry. There's so much good about this movie, with that last bit being so heartfelt.
Ricardo Montalban did not play Khan. He freakin' MADE Kahn and no matter what great (or horrible) actor you try to replace him with or how great (or awful) a script you give for him to be in, it will never be the same. RIP Mr. Montalban, you were underrated and amazing.
***** You BETTA PREACH!!!!!!
***** thats your fanboyism talking, any actor can be replaced by another better... nobody is infallible
***** AMEN!
Lord Zephyros Blow me.
*****
oh an insult ... nice. id slap you, but that would be animal abuse
RIP Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley, and Leonard Nimoy :(
Don't forget James Doohan
And Gene Rodenberry, himself!
. . . composer James Horner and producer Harve Bennett.
Also, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick and Paul Winfield.
@@marileestetson737 RIP to Jerry Goldsmith too. Can't forget Jane Wyatt, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Mark Lenard, John Coclios, William Campbell, Michael Ansara, Grace Lee Whitney, Paul Winfield, Brock Peters, Roger C. Carmel, Persis Khambatta, Arlene Martel, Madlyn Rhue, and Barry Jenner
The music to this scene is incredible
One of the greatest movie scores in the entire genre of science fiction, and that's saying something.
One of Horner's best. I think this is the score that made him into a famous composer.
OH ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY!!
Sulu: "Sir, you did it."
Kirk: "I did nothing. Just got caught with my britches down. Saavik, you go right on quoting regulations."
Love that last line.
Exactly. It shows that Kirk realized his mistake and that his subordinate was correct. He absolutely made the wrong call and put them all at risk.
An amazing fact is that Ricardo Montalban is saying all his lines to a script girl, he never was face to face with William Shatner in a single scene.
Never knew that!!!
Ricardo Montalban is amazing... And made this one of my favorite Star Trek movies ever... Epic!
One of the finest film sequences of all time, a combination of an incredible music score and performances from all contribute to an amazing performance. The line "Here it comes" is delivered with chilling understatement...
great line thanks for the reminder you watch it again and you appreciate it more with all this other crap the remakes of star trek star wars going down the toilet the original cast wil always be great
Absolutely. The interesting thing about that line, according to Nicholas Meyer, is that Shatner kept doing take after take telegraphing the line like "Here it COMMMMMMES!" until he finally got bored with it and just said it in a matter-of-fact way.
amazing a guy like meyer who wasnt even a fan of star trek could pull off such an excellent film@@PP-nl8ue
excellent film easily the best with the first crew@Galen Joyce
@@gkroll8467 That may explain why this movie played so well for people who don't even like Star Trek. Every time I run into someone that makes fun of the franchise but willing to give it a shot, I show them Wrath of Khan, and they immediately want to see the story continue with ST3.
Masterclass in film making right here. Every part is expertly done- flawless. Even the special effects hold up to this day. Modern day Trek directors need to re-watch it (or watch it for the first time) and take notes...
Love the score in this scene. "And its very cold in space . . . ." Cuts to a shot outside of the ship in space, the horns and strings shriek so violently, makes the hairs on your arms stand up and gives you the chills.
Well put. On a long journey away from home, as a young man, I had space for only 1 movie on my device to keep me company. I chose this….
for 1982 this movie STILL kicks ass imo =)
Off the top of my head, I can't seem to come up with another movie quite like it.
It's not opinion. It's fact.
On top of that, it was low budget even for an 80's sci-fi movie made by a studio with known actors. Everything they pulled off on that production is remarkable.
For 2020 this movie is untouchable!!!
It's a kickass movie for ANY time!
Ricardo Montalban gave a yeoman's performance as Khan. Excellent actor.
Vivian Pough yes he was excellent in both dramatic roles as well as comedic roles.
He should've been nominated an Oscar for his role. Then again, he STILL might've been beaten out by Ben Kingsley for his role in "Gandhi", that came out the exact same year (1982).
Montalbano's performance was so good that I was surprised he never received a Supporting Actor nomination the following year, at least a Golden Globe.
Best thing about it is that he never acted with Shatner. All of Kirk’s lines were fed to Montalban by a script girl, and he STILL turned in a fantastic performance!
He was fantastic in this role. Great actor and an L.A. Rams' fan to boot!
When I watched this scene for the first time in a packed theater, everyone went nuts. It was an awesome moment.
Ain't that the truth!! We all remember the first time we saw the scenes....and it was like WOW!!!
I remember how the audience cheered jubilantly when Kirk turned the tables on Khan in this scene - also at the end when Spock ended his narration and the credits rolled. To this day, I have never heard an ovation like that at the end of any other motion picture.
Sorta like when captain America said " Avengers assemble" in Endgame.
That head on close up of Reliant is stunning! These models were so well photographed by ILM in this film.
Those models had extreme detail. From every litte window to the bridge. So when they zoomed in and out it looked real.
Now they are clouded in "Shadows and Dust", by that idiot JJ. So sad. The art is gone. No more beauty passes. Just confusion until you realise you wasted your money.
I swear Montalban absolutely relished his part. When I was a little kid I saw Khan as a genuinely scary character. Looking at it with grown up eyes, you see how he really made this part his own.
The TOS episode where he is first found is like one of the greatest displays of acting on a TV show of all time.
Absolutely, I was genuinely scared of him. Legendary actor.
I liked the part when he sings 'Volare, oh oh...'
No body could deliver a line with as much threat, rage, and sheer class combined as Khan. Probably one of the greatest villains in SciFi history.
Khan wasn't turned into a brooding double-turncoat emo like Vader was. Not even JJ could wreck the character.
@@pwnmeisterage LOL, JJ absolutely did wreck that character like everything else he touches.
That is what made Ricardo Montalbán so good in his Fantasy Island role. He would talk to you with a smile, giving you what should be great news meanwhile you got chills when he said it from the threat in the delivery. He would have been a great Bond Villain.
I was born in 1999 I will always love this version of khan better. Old star trek just had the best stories and great acting by actors.
The background music is awesome, it sets the mood of the encounter.
+Robert Hickson James Horner baby.
+Robert Hickson I watched an interview with James Horner and he set up the music with purpose with Khan's and Kirk's music in opposition. Its a really cool interview
+Robert Hickson I read somewhere they invented a new instrument for the background music for this movie.
you got that rigth my good man!!
It is the most awesome score I have ever heard for a movie. James Horner should have gotten an Oscar.
The best star trek movie of all. Epic.
You got that right.
Hell Yeah..
Second best beeing either "First Contact" or "The undiscovered Country" in my opinion.
first contact is best imo. though i think we can all agree that its a real bummer that so many of the star trek movies were pretty garbage. sigh.
shaq mobile Jup. Mainly the next genearations movie besides First contact were all pretty much garbage. i like them anyway but they are not very good movies.
TOS had it better in my opinion.
3.08.. where the trainee is screaming he can't breath and you hear Scotty shouting 'Use your respirators' Love that little moment showing the difference between an untested trainee and a veteran.
Movies like this one prove that it is not required to have amazing special effects to make a great movie. All that is required are engaging characters and great storytelling.
Not to mention a totally baller soundtrack and music producer who knows what they are doing
Great movie always had engaging characters n great story telling. Sfx is just additional seasoning.
This film had amazing special effects for when it was released and it sure wowed me in the theater. The Genesis proposal was the first full length CGI sequence in a motion picture AFAIK.
I thought the sfx were well done for the time. The ships really had this feeling of battle of the titians
@@RaijinKaze I am glad that was the first response. The legendary music was half the battle.
A big part of why that sequence works is James Horner's great music. It really builds the suspense and excitement: "Time's up Admiral!" "Here it comes." Looove it.
RIP James Horner.
RobertTC009 very true.
"Get ready to receive our transmission" 😏, my favourite star trek movie by far!
Now Mr. Spock 🖖🏼
Got that right, James Horners music made these films,oh and aliens aswell
Still one of THE best cinematic duels ever put to film.
and this scene is just the opening.. there's the starbase subterfuge, ending with the chase into the nebula, and the tense "hunter becoming the hunted" drama ...
WRATH OF KHAN IS THE BEST STAR TREK MOVIE EVER MADE
RIGHT
but why is it in 4:3 here? I remember it in widescreen
I'll say the unpopular opinion that Wrath of Khan is NOT necessarily the best Star Trek movie ever made. But it is THE most EXCITING Star Trek movie ever made.
@@KiCreativeStudioJP I also like FIrst Contact very much... Let's say The Wrath of Khan is *one of the best* Star Trek movies ever made
It was so good that it took 2 more movies to take care of the results of it (death/resurrection of Spock, returning to Earth to face the consequences of stealing the Enterprise).
Nah, first contact beat it
I remember watching this in a VHS cassette together with my dad back in the 80s ... And I recall how captivated my old man was by this scene with the Reliant and Enterprise going side to side so when captain Kirk says "raise shields" my father stood up from the chair shouting "too late you idiot! too late!!" :D ... oh well. R.I.P dad
I still have it on VHS tape. No way to play it though if it would not snap, heh!
Great stuff
haha same with my Dad. VHS tape too! When we were kids, we knew he was into it when he kept saying "Kirk the effing greatest captain!". For which he is (F PICARD)
Dad’s always seem to know best, don’t they.
Same. Rip dad. You great khan you
"Don't insult my intelligence, Kirk".
Badass line and Ricardo's performance.
I cannot watch this enough. This movie rocked!
i remember watching this in the theater in the early 80s, and the audience was literally on its feet shouting and cheering during this scene.. James Horner's score, like that of the original Star Wars, made this movie come alive..
Horner's is on another level here. Just perfection of an score
Horner connected script and emotion so beautifully, yet kept the epic structure due to his organized, structured signature. He went off to space too early...
Interesting to note, Horner was chosen for the score because they couldn't afford Jerry Goldsmith, who had done ST:TMP. Horner was way less-known at the time and therefore much cheaper. Thank heavens for tight budgets! I love Goldsmith, but the score from ST II & III are my favorites of the whole series of movies. Especially this scene, Battle in the Mutara Nebula & Genesis Countdown.
@@alegriaho The funny thing is that after Horner did Star Trek 3, he also became too expensive. So they got a different composer for ST4.
I still watch this in amazement to this day. I can recite this scene word for word before the words are spoken. This was perfect and the Score of this scene is also phenomenal. The music really builds the tension during Khan's attack. I have watched this many many times and I love it.
The editing is masterful. _"...it is very cold...in space."_ And smash cut to the two ships powering towards each other, Khan's motif roaring. And cut to Kirk, beginning, too slowly, to realize something's amiss, as his own motif, the movie's theme, rises in the score in response.
James Horner's score to the scene elevated it to classic status for sure.
Arguably the best Star Trek film. This scene is one of it's best moments.
Arguably? It's clearly the best. In fact, without it, there probably would be no others, as ST:TMP was a big disappointment, and they really needed this film to succeed in both box office receipts and with fan and wider audience interest.
It's not even remotely arguable. This isn't just clearly the best Star Trek film, it's arguably the best sci fi film of all time.
its best*
Possessive vs contraction. Look it up.
One of the best space battles ever put to film.
What's great about this scene is seeing two old adversaries using their cunning and experience to get the better of each other rather than just slugging it out. Each one makes moves and mistakes that are understandable and not plot contrivances. Kirk is too trusting at the beginning and gets hit whereas Khan in his haste for revenge overlooked changing the codes or learning everything about his commandeered ship.
there's no great explanation though for why he didn't raise shields. What's the possible downside?
GoSolar fellow federation ship - understandable oversight.
They only raise shields right before an attack. Don't ask me why, considering their power source is infinite and there's episodes where they've kept them up for days at a time.
MrBlackSwan
Why does Kirk need to tell an experienced engineer to go to auxiliary power?
MrBlackSwan Exactly. there's really no reason not to do it. (I guess except when someone's beaming somewhere)
Be FAR and STILL the best Trek film to day, why the hell can't they get it right now???? RIP James Horner - Should of got an Oscar for this score.....
Did he like hot dogs?
A great depiction of Kirk's edge being dulled by sitting in an office for so many years. As soon as Spock said "Their shields are going up", Kirk should've seen what was coming and raised the Enterprise's shields. That small moment of indecision cost his crew a lot.
His experience with three-dimensional combat made up for it in spades later though.
should have acted when Saavik mentioned regulations
of course then the movie would have been much duller ;-)
i mean in his defense, he did order yellow alert, and the defense fields did go up in some capacity which prevented the ship from being completely annihilated.
@@deadponic117 What's the difference between "defense fields" and shields? If the word defense is used, it implies full shields. Doesn't make sense.
"Stand by to receive our transmission"
Kirk's smug grin when he says this is beautiful, he knows he's already won
Yeah, you could say Jim took Khan (figuratively anyway)by the nutsack and yanked, hard!
No matter how many times i see this film, when spock calls kirk his friend, just before he passes away saving the enterprise always gets me, pure emotion, 😢
GOD DAMN! One of the best space battles ever put to film.
they are raising shields
they are locking weapons
I've deprived your ship of power and when I swing around I mean to deprive you of your life.
The scene from 4:09 to 4:19, with the music as the Reliant is circling around, just leaves chills in me. Truly this fight is a classic submarine vs. submarine battle in space.
Such an awesome scene in an awesome movie.
that and inside the nebula where it shows the the ships passing over each other in between the flashes on light
Music was so good in this scene
I do like myself a good large-scale space battle with ridiculous numbers of ships firing lasers and torpedoes, but I also like the slower sequence of tension and buildup in a scene like this, ever harder to find today
BTL Y-Wing - me too. I feel the same exact way. Take even the battles in the JJ/Kelvin-verse/timeline movies and even the ST Discovery "Battlr at the Binary Stars" - just phaser or laser or whatever beams flying back and forth. Almost as bad as watching a horrible Transformers movie. Sometimes I just want two capital naval ships like this, seeing where the beams emit from, hit and impact, etc vs the frantic can't tell what from what of today ST.
I agree, hell the fact that they managed to do those massive space battles on a T.V. Budget is incredible enough!
If I remember right, the director (Nicholas Meyer?) specifically designed the battle scenes to resemble real life naval tactics & engagements. A shame most current day directors are too shallow to do this or spend much time trying to make their battles believable. Just pew, pew, pew, and boom.
Yeah they did a damned good job with the 2-ship slugfest in this film
I rather like a good old ship to ship battle too. Black Sails had some good ones.
i remember the feeling in the theater when the enterprise started firing
it was a feeling of elation
it was like everybody knew the franchise was back BIGTIME
THIS WAS STAR TREK THE WAY IT SHOULD BE
I wish i was old enough to see and appreciate these films in the cinema. I feel i really missed the Golden Age of movies. Especially with the crap that's coming out now...
Forever Star Trek
sadly it led us down the pew pew slope and away from exploration and meeting new life forms
@@perfectionbox Nearly every single episode of the original '60s TV show had a gunfight, a fistfight or a starship battle. _The Motion Picture_ was a departure, if one I appreciate. _Wrath of Khan's_ mix of sci-fi, action, horror and humor was a return to form. It's in part because the writer-director was new to the show and sat down to watch it with fresh eyes. Without pop culture blinders, he saw it for what it was.
Yup👍
Discovery gargles donkey balls compared to this.
Might be the best 10 minutes in Science Fiction film history.
deffo
Best dam Science Fiction Film Period... !
Kujakuseki01 I'd agree and up it to one of the best things filmed in the history of the universe.
When Kahn barks "FIRE", The rage, goose bumps.
U are absolutely Correct💙😇😁😀
I remember watching this with my mom as a kid dreaming of the future. I just want to go back to the past at this point
I think everyone wants to do that.
Amen to that!
B E S T villain ever.... legendary Montalban performance.
I don't care if Ricardo was over the top. He was awesome.
leftcoaster67 that was his strength _strong, drenched passion_
Khan as a character IS over the top. An artistic madman with the capacity to rationalise any horror if it benefits his agenda.
That's the point. He was pissed off and had 15 years to stew about it.
Montalban seemed adequately vengeful. But Shatner was over the top.
Who said he was over the top ?
38 years and I never get tired of this scene. The best part is the way the music comes in when Spock says "Reliant?"
The music is perfectly brilliant
Unquestionably the best of the Star Trek films. This is the film that introduced the Kobayashi Maru scenario and this scene shows us Kirk's character and why he was given special commendation for cheating on the test: James T. Kirk never gives up. Here he is totally beaten in a surprise attack, forced to beg for mercy, but he's still fighting, still leading his crew, still trying to win. And then he does win and Khan is forced to retreat. When later Kirk says to Savok "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" the audience knows it's true, because we've seen it.
Best of the Trek movies. The great, suave, foreign (and thus, to Americans, innately sinister) actor Ricardo Montalban chews up the scenery as 20th-Century megalomaniac Khan Noonien Singh. Seeing he and Shatner together on-screen is a real treat.
Oh look: another xenophobe emboldened by a shitty presidential administration.
+Ragitsu Oh look, another brainwashed libtard that slanders people with namecalling bacause they don't agree with them (and yes I called you a name and it's deserved judging from your comment). So what BS name will you call me eh....xenophobe, racist, sexist, bigot, all of the above? That crap isn't working like it once did on people and it will never work on me no matter who is in the White House so go fuck yourself.
When I think of Geoffrey Rush or Gerard Depardieu, my mind doesn't exactly go to "sinister" as the first adjective...
@@DefCon1966 Decries name calling. Opens with "libtard"
Self awareness isn't the strong suit if easily triggered racists is it?
Turnabout is fair play so take your sanctimonious blather to someone who gives a damn snowflake or crawl into whatever hole you call a safe space.
The score in this scene so perfectly matches and heightens every moment, it's kind of breath-taking. From the tension mounting ticking-clock rhythm to the unease of the strings as the Enterprise tries to figure out the mystery of the silent ship, then through to the driven momentum of the chaotic scenes of destruction... awesome. Then we get a breathing space and then almost a proud whimsy as Kirk's guile and Starfleet savvy over-matches Khan's arrogance. Indeed it is Hornblower in space!
Excellent comment.
Khan: "Oh Kirk, dear Kirk...don't you know I've already won? Because I am the MOST MEMORABLE VILLIAN IN ALL OF STAR TREK!"
"Khan, how do I know you'll keep your word?"
"Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgement, you simply have no alternative."
"I see your point. Standby to receive our transmission."
@@geoffwilliams4478 Now Mr. Spock.. Spock enters the combination and then cut to the first officer for Khan: Our shields are dropping. Khan with the most surprised look says, Raise Them!! What a great great scene.
One of the cool things in this battle is the way the ships are capable of taking abuse. Even with the shields down they don't just blow up. It takes sustained damage to disable them, making it a battle of tactics and attrition.
This is how we build warships in the United States.
This is because in Roddenberry's mind ; Starships were extremely large battleships. It was only the current generation of crap director's like JJ which do not understand anything about Star Trek.
@@grast5150 Exactly. Starships were a battleship chassis with peaceful exploration features built on top of it. They could give and take damage when called upon to do so, but the Federation preferred to not have to use that capability.
Realistic weapons for non-combat type ships. They lose the plot now with more weapons than a ship could possibly carry. Also the chaos of no discipline.
Federation ships have no armor to speak of so without their shields they are like shooting cardboard, but yup, unless you hit certain specific spots, they can take a beating. Punch them full of holes and they keep going. Just don't hit the warp core directly or the anti-matter pods or plumbing. Hit those and this goes boomb.
And just before he appeared on the viewer, Khan exhorted his crew, "Smiles, everyone, smiles!"
thanks... I just sprayed beverage all over my keyboard...
whiteknightcat Freakazoid!
Laugh with me, laugh with me!
Ah-ha! Another Freakazoid Fan!
The musical score when the ships are maneuvering is so cool.
My favorite sequence of any Star Trek production. The special effects were not as good as Star Wars at the time, but the intellectual battle, the exact detail that allowed the Enterprise to escape, and the subtleties of character make this sequence just epic. I loved it as a kid, and I still love it today. And the music - it could not have been better.
Call me crazy, but this era of Star Trek (ST II-VI) and the Federation is my favorite. I love the Miranda Class ship and these Starfleet uniforms are my favorite.
TMP is very good too. Very underrated...
I always loved the uniforms from Star Trek 2 to Star Trek 6. Then I grow to appreciate the ones from Star Trek first Contact to current. I guess I find them more practical?
Why crazy? Don't cave to all the limp Next Generation sychpohants and don't apologize for it. Be proud of your appreciation of TOS and the fact that it can't be topped. TNG sucked.
I wish we would get this era back and return to exploration
Amen to that. TNG is nothing more than an asshat soap opera in space.
"We are one big happy fleet".
Yeah right, raise Shields and Engage now!
It is very cold in space.
FIIRREE!!!
Khans cocky sarcasm was so smooth.
@@theQuestion626 Ricardo was badass but so is Cumberbatch though I see Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan more like Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars's Timothy Zah novels
THis flick is fantastic anytime i see it.
Love me some practical effects and a clear chain of command..Im looking at you JJ.
The same for me to. love this one
the best of all the trek films. it runs like a super tv episode.
This scene is an all time favorite.
Excellent actors.
Compelling storyline.
Building up of tension.
Amazing music perfectly captures the mood or feel of the scene.
I love it when Kirk tells Khan, "Here it comes." The ultimate wink and a nod FU.
RobertTC009 as Kirk adjusts his reading glasses😂
Delivered with a deadpan voice and poker-face.
@@rbrtck On the twelfth take...
'He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!' Kahn talks shit as well as anyone.
redrocker85 he talks shit in a poetic manner
Nancy Pelosi said the same thing about the impeachment hearings
Moby dick, Captain Ahab gets his whale.
@@kwolf43
... the whale got him !
Do you get the (modified) quote?
The sheer ecstasy on Khan's face when he screams "FIIIIRE!!!"....
Closer to demented rage, I would say.
Everything here is perfect. The performances, the dialogue, James Horner's absolutely brilliant score, etc. But, what I think really makes this, is the editing. The cutting is flawless. The seamless transitions, they perfectly highten the tension. Couple that with Horner's perfect score, and you have a damn near perfect scene. I especially like the shift in tone as Reliant's phasers start to slice open Enterprise's hull. Like her arteries are being opened. You can feel her bleeding.
Despite being from 1983 this movie still absolutely stands up in the visuals. Ive always loved how star trek phasers look impacting a hull.
TNG phasers, otoh, look fake.
This movie was from 1982!
@@seanbyers6916 You are correct sir...i should have been more careful when typing.
There was a sweet spot with visual effects, when they started to look realistic, but before everyone went CGI-crazy. During that period, good storytelling and acting were still the essential ingredients of a good movie. Nowadays, CGI is often used as an alternative to a good, coherent story. If this film were remade now, it almost certainly wouldn't be anywhere near as good.
@@davidhazel5854 yes! And, your thought experiment is verified since they did make it again--and it's not nearly as good.
ricardo montalban shouldve got 500 oscars for this role
He made a great Capt. Ahab.
Robert Thomas kirk was a great whale😀😀😀
500? Hahahaha
No. 650 bare minimum
His face when the reliant shields dropped
0:37 when Reliant comes right at the screen with that furious music playing...absolute perfection!
+mrspidey80 I have that music as a ring tone.
One of the cinematic best 10 minutes in the history of Trek...
Despite it's slow tempo, this is one of the tensest moments in all of Star Trek.
Everything about this is perfect writing. Its not just the combat, but the idea that Kirk in his prime wouldn't have been caught out by this. Kirk is old. The Enterprise is old. The crew is inexperienced. This isn't the ship that we saw during TOS.
They took the risky route of moving things on and showing the crew in a different time of their lives. They made the good guys weak and the bad guys smart. Then they gave the good guys an escape that made sense and one that the bad guys couldn't be able to predict.
This film is rightly considered a sci-fi classic. Its not just the action. Every scene in this film has a narrative purpose. Nothing is superfluous. It only more films were made like this today.
jseeker1867 The tempo is not slow. It's called build-up. It's what creates tension.
***** Technically, there was a federation on federation ship attack if you go back to the M5 episode.
chadlpnemt Yes, that was the episode "The Ultimate Computer".
I remember watching this movie at the movie theater when it first came out back in '82'.
I saw it a dozen times at the movie theatres, including my colleges theatre. When the ship took off, the ROTC guys and ladies yelled "airborne!" And the ones in the front-including us-yelled "all the way!" I even heard one guy 2 seats down say "Man, that's a hot Vulcan!" when Saavik was in the turbolift with Kirk. I told him to read the novel. He did. Same response, even though she was just going to tutor Peter Preston.
Haha! I should of payed more attention to this movie instead of making out with GF at the Drive In 😏 Turned to be a classic!
Howdy fellow old timer!
I'm jealous. I first saw this when I rented it from a Blockbuster. Fell in love with Star Trek instantly and have watched all the TV shows and movies, with the exception of STD.
Same. My dad and I saw all the Trek movies up through Nemsis. Sadly, he died before the relaunch in 2009.
He made me the Trekkie I am today.
"I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!"
So Mellville. Ahab going after the whale. Even Cpt. Picard was compared to Ahab in "St:8".
@@virginiaconnor8350 Ha Ha! William Shatner is the great white whale. Well he was a little 'portly'.
wheres the over ride
He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him!
Sounds like my ex-girlfriend.
Almost ten minutes of goosebumps, from the acting to the twists and Horner's superb score. This bit sums up what makes Star Trek's space battles so fun.
James Horner was the KING of - exciting build-up to a 'moment' music ... That piece featured here when they send the code to drop Reliant's shield's ... similar to the music from Aliens heard during the double climax of the film. Nobody comes close when it comes to a spine-tingling score!
I couldn't agree more. I'm a little obsessed with his early stuff -- he made some soundtracks that were way better than the actual films they were for, like Krull and Battle Beyond the Stars. But when his talent was paired with a great movie like Wrath of Khan and Aliens, there was nothing like it!
Agreed, its the song of escalating tension.
Yup, exactly!
I agree
It was almost the same music as krull
The chemistry between these two ... and they didn’t have one scene together for the film, just the on screen banter
it's one of ours admiral it's reliant
Genesis? whats that? lol
Brilliant callback at 3:45. Khan's crew knows where to hit Enterprise because Khan's conquest of Kirk's ship began when Kirk let him take a look at the ship's schematics, figuring a man frozen for centuries couldn't do any harm with them. It's an effective strike, but it's also Khan taunting Kirk: just as in their first encounter, he's lulled Kirk into a false sense of security, slipping behind his defenses.
@@kiely4561 For a film that ends so tragically, it's amazing how it's also Star Trek's funniest.
"...Aren't you dead?"
@@MegaZeta yeah, and who could forget the famous line " Khan, i'm laughing in the face of the superior intellect", Kirk definitely knew how to push his buttons lol
Rest In Peace James Horner. Leonard Nimoy. And Nicholas Meyer. Live Long And Prosper.
Emmanuel Williams Uhh... Nicholas Meyer is still alive.
Really Batman3777. I thought I read somewhere he did passed away? Or was it Harve Bennett? I cannot be sure.
Emmanuel Williams Yeah, you're thinking of Harve. He passed away this past February.
+Emmanuel Williams Don't forget Rest In Peace Ricardo Montalban.
44excalibur So true.
To this day, the score for this movie still gives me chills! A true masterpiece of a film with an epic score
I was a major Star Wars fanboy, but I've been getting into Star Trek for the past few weeks. Bought the bluray of Wrath of Khan earlier this week. Really liked it.
Khan shot first!!!
Next Gen is what turned me, I still like star wars because of the mythos but star trek has far superior dialogue and a more cohesive story arc that doesn't revolve around a space wizard family affair.
Compare these star ships to the newer CGI ones used today. These actually look real because they ARE real.
bazzarr Absolutely 100% spot on correct!
CGI is far from the problem with those movies
Reliant a mean looking ship
Hmm the ones in Interstellar look real
I think you're going a bit far. It's just a movie
What can you say, such a tight piece of film making. Shatner the Ham putting in his most subtle performance (despite the KHAAAN!) and Montalban chewing the scenery in all right places. Its a real theatrical film. Its what annoys me about the efforts to recapture it (Nemesis, Into Darkness) they attempt a literal translation of a space battle in a nebula and a grudge without bothering to consider the emotional motivation. That and Montalban quoting Moby Dick and Paradise Lost is just badass.
That last one is probably the most important in terms of subtlety.
Khan is not simply quoting those books just to sound like he's well read. He's quoting those books because for 15 years those books were all he had and all he knew. They molded his hatred for Kirk and gave it a strange symbiosis.
The later forms mentioned are like a poor Xerox with no depth to them because they don't understand that you have to give your characters proper context and motivation for the things that they say and do.
Where would Kahn have learned that Klingon quote?
Nicholas Meyer said he had to keep shooting it until Shatner got bored and gave the performance you saw:
"Here it comes. . . now."
I find it interesting how the hammy "KHAAAAN" is basically *Kirk* hamming it up, not Shatner.
This is the best movie of all the Star Treks in the original cast, the next generation and the re-boot Star Trek. The same director came back and did Star Trek 6 Undiscovered Country, which is also very good.
Y'know, the chaos in Engineering after the Reliant's first phaser hits on the Enterprise, the airtight bulkheads slowly closing, the engineering crew and Scotty donning respirators...it's among the most "naval-feeling" scenes in ST history. It's the engine-room crew of a World War II cruiser that's just taken a torpedo hit and is sealing off watertight doors to prevent flooding and struggling to keep up steam and electrical power and keep the ship afloat and fighting, while the men frantically scramble not to get caught on the wrong side of those doors lest they die. ST's very rarely gritty and realistic but that scene is about as close as they ever got.
So true. Big budget. I think we all know television has to keep it simple and makes space less dangerous. Have you watch the television show “the expanse”? I really like their depiction of how dangerous it can be in space
Khan's face when their shields are lowered.
He sure acted his ass off didn't he??
Aditya Agrawal , yeah, that was priceless.
WTF!!!!!
So-called genetically superior lackey has to be told to raise the shields, sure seems not very bright after all..
What?