Wrath of Khan vs. NuTrek

[the_narration]

I rewatched Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan recently for the first time in a long time… possibly a decade or more. I’ve been feeling the urge to for a while. I might blame it on Robot Chicken’s Wrath of Khan Opera parody, or on sfdebris’ great video review of it a few months back.

Having watched Wrath of Khan again, I can’t help but compare it to

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[tsubaki_ny]

I pretty much agree with your assessment -- found it diverting and exciting while watching, and the further I get away from it, the thinner and more, er, three-legged it seemed. It's trying to accomplish far, far less than the original series ever did. There is no philosophy here.

And I was downright ANGRY at sexualized Spock. It kind of defeated the entire PURPOSE of Spock for me, which was conscious supression. (And the baby Vulcans were ridiculous. How is teasing your peer not "emotional"? Just because you're doing it in a monotone? What other gratification is there but the "emotional" one? And you're ragging on him for being emotional? Yes kids are kids but grownups wrote that scene.)

Do not like fate of Vulcan.

Characters of color (and Russianness) more or less one-note, but then everybody was more or less one-note except Spock, so, well, yeah.

However, this made me ponder a few aspects of it I hadn't before. (Although I'm not sure I LIKE the fact that we're in this different cultural place as a society, it's an