
It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission when his nemesis Khan Noonien Singh--infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth--appears after years of exile. Khan later revealed that the planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and sh... (Full plot summary below)
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It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission when his nemesis Khan Noonien Singh--infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth--appears after years of exile. Khan later revealed that the planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and shifted the orbit of the fifth planet as a Mars-like haven. He begins capturing Project Genesis, a top secret device holding the power of creation itself, and schemes the utter destruction of Kirk.
Leave your thoughts about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneThere's got to be some moral in the fact that the Star Trek movie with the smallest budget (by far) and fewest resources is still the dominant favorite... |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashWhat movie would be complete without an incredible villain? In Khan, Ricardo Montalban created a villain of legendary proportions. |
| Associated PressBob ThomasDirector Nicholas Meyer handles the human factor as deftly as the space hardware. |
| Time OutPaul TaylorThe net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Wrath of Khan is a top-notch, fast-paced adventure that can be enjoyed equally by fans of the series and those who have never seen an episode. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonMany fans consider this the best of the series, and I like it very much. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakThe merely curious are warned. If Star Trek: The Motion Picture showed little of the Enterprise of the culty TV series, this sequel is at times a flat-out Khan-job. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA brisk, handsomely designed film in which its hardware, sturdy as it is, never overwhelms its humanity. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen GodfreyNot least among Khan's pleasures is the way it continually veers toward, but never quite crosses, the neutral zone between space opera and interstellar camp. By the end, it becomes simply operatic, with a death scene of surprising emotional power. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinThe second Star Trek movie is swift, droll and adventurous, not to mention appealingly gadget-happy. It's everything the first one should have been and wasn't. |