Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Jack B. Sowards, Harve Bennett
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Release: June 4, 1982
Tagline: At the end of the universe lies the beginning of vengeance.
Producer: Robert Sallin
Associate Producer: William F. Phillips
Executive Producer: Harve Bennett
Stars/Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalban,
Music by: James Horner
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0084726
Rating: PG
Runtime: 113 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Original Series.
Synopsis: Somewhere in the darkest reaches of the universe, a battle is about to begin. A battle between good and evil, between a warrior and a madman. A battle that will take you from the end of time to the beginning of creation. A battle between the awesome power of the starship Enterprise and the wrath of Khan.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Quotes and Lines
Kirk: We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most… human.
Khan: To the last, I will grapple with thee… from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!
Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker! You’re going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?
Khan: Kirk? Kirk, you’re still alive, my old friend?
Kirk: Still, “old friend”! You’ve managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target.
Khan: Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.
Carol Marcus: Oh no!
David Marcus: Let go! He can’t take it!
Kirk: Khan… Khan, you’ve got Genesis, but you don’t have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You’re going to have to come down here. You’re going to have to come down here!
Khan: I’ve done far worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive… buried alive…
Kirk: KHAAANNNN! KHAAANNNN!
McCoy: No! You’ll flood the whole compartment!
Kirk: He’ll die!
Scotty: Sir! He’s dead already.
McCoy: It’s too late.
Kirk: Spock!
Spock: The ship… out of danger?
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: Do not grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many, outweigh…
Kirk: The needs of the few.
Spock: Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?
Kirk: Spock.
Spock: I have been… and always shall be… your friend. Live long… and prosper.
Kirk: No.
Spock: If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny; anything else is a waste of material.
Kirk: I would not presume to debate you.
Spock: That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Kirk: Or the one.
Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.
Kirk: Physician, heal thyself!
McCoy: Is that all you’ve got to say? What about my performance?
Kirk: I’m not a drama critic!
Joachim: They’re still running with shields down.
Khan: Of course! We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space!
Spock: Space, the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Kirk: This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan, are you game for a rematch? Khan, I’m laughing at the “superior intellect.”
Khan: Full impulse power!
Joachim: No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever…
Khan: FULL POWER! DAMN YOU!
Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
Kirk: What’s on your mind, Lieutenant?
Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
Kirk: Are you asking me if we’re playing out that scenario now?
Saavik: On the test, sir… will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.
McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
Saavik: How?
Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
Saavik: What?
David Marcus: He cheated.
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking. I don’t like to lose.
Saavik: Then you never faced that situation… faced death.
Kirk: I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.
McCoy: He’s not really dead. As long as we remember him.
Kirk: It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known.
Carol Marcus: Is that a poem?
Kirk: No. Something Spock was trying to tell me. On my birthday.
McCoy: You okay, Jim? How do you feel?
Kirk: Young. I feel young.
Joachim: We’re all with you, sir. But, consider this. We are free. We have a ship, and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha V. You have defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again.
Khan: 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!
Saavik: Permission to speak freely, sir?
Kirk: Granted.
Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities.
Kirk: And why not?
Saavik: Because… there was no way to win.
Kirk: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you?
Saavik: No, sir, it has not.
Kirk: And how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn’t you say?
Saavik: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
Kirk: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique?
Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.
McCoy: Dear Lord. You think we’re intelligent enough to… suppose… what if this thing were used where life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
McCoy: Its “new matrix”? Do you have any idea what you’re saying?
Spock: I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications, Doctor. As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create.
McCoy: Not anymore; now we can do both at the same time! According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis! We’ll do it for you in six minutes!
Spock: Really, Dr. McCoy. You must learn to govern your passions; they will be your undoing. Logic suggests…
McCoy: Logic? My God, the man’s talking about logic; we’re talking about universal Armageddon! You green-blooded, inhuman…
Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Kirk: Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we’re all dead!
Saavik: He’s never what I expect, sir.
Spock: What surprises you, Lieutenant?
Saavik: He’s so – human.
Spock: Nobody’s perfect, Saavik.
McCoy: Where are we going?
Kirk: Where they went.
McCoy: Suppose they went *nowhere*?
Kirk: Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all.
Saavik: You lied!
Spock: I exaggerated.
Kirk: Hours instead of days! Now we have minutes instead of hours!
Khan: Captain, Captain, Captain… save your strength. These people have sworn to live and die at my command two hundred years before you were born. Do you mean he never told you the tale? To amuse your Captain, no? Never told you how the Enterprise picked up the Botany Bay, lost in space from the year 1996 with myself and the ship’s company in cryogenic freeze?
Capt. Terrell: I’ve never even met Admiral Kirk.
Khan: ‘Admiral?’ ‘Admiral!’ ‘Admiral’… Never told you how ‘Admiral’ Kirk sent seventy of us into exile in this barren sandheap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us?
Chekov: You lie! On Ceti Alpha Five there was life! A fair chance…
Khan: THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE! Ceti Alpha Six exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet and everything was laid waste. ‘Admiral’ Kirk never bothered to check on our progress. It was only the fact of my genetically-engineered intellect that allowed us to survive. On Earth, 200 years ago, I was a prince with power over millions.
Chekov: Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!
Kirk: Khan, how do I know you’ll keep your word?
Khan: Oh, I’ve given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative.
Kirk: Engine room. Well done, Scotty!
McCoy: Jim… I think you’d better get down here.
Kirk: Bones?
McCoy: Better hurry…
Dr. McCoy: You’re hiding… hiding behind rules and regulations.
Kirk: Who am I hiding from?
Dr. McCoy: From yourself, Admiral.
Kirk: Don’t mince words, Bones. What do you really think?
Dr. McCoy: Jim, I’m your doctor and I’m also your friend. Get back your command! Get it back before you turn into part of this collection, before you really do grow old.
Carol Marcus: Please tell me what you’re feeling.
Kirk: There’s a man out there I haven’t seen in fifteen years who’s trying to kill me. You show me a son that’d be happy to help. My son… my life that could have been… and wasn’t. How do I feel? Old… worn out.
Carol Marcus: Let me show you something that will make you feel young as when the world was new.
Khan: Joachim?
Joachim: Yours… is… superior…
Khan: I shall avenge you.
Spock: You proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise.
Kirk: Romulan Ale. Why, Bones, you know this is illegal.
McCoy: I only use it for medicinal purposes.
Joachim: Sir, our shields are dropping.
Khan: Raise them!
Joachim: I can’t!
Khan: Where’s the override? The override?
Kirk: FIRE!
Khan: There she is! There she is! Ah… not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better!
Joachim: They still haven’t raised their shields.
Khan: Raise ours.
Spock: Their shields are going up.
Khan: Lock phasers on target.
Joachim: Locking phasers on target.
Spock: They’re locking phasers.
Kirk: Raise shields!
Khan: Fire!
Khan: Surely, I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life.
McCoy: Dammit Jim, what the hell is the matter with you? Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?
David Marcus: Remember that overgrown Boy Scout you used to hang around with? That’s exactly the kind of guy…
Carol Marcus: Listen, kiddo, Jim Kirk was *many* things, but he was *never* a Boy Scout!
Sulu: So much for a “little training cruise”.
Kirk: Kirk to Enterprise.
Spock: Spock here.
Kirk: Captain Spock, damage report.
Spock: Admiral, if we go “by the book”. like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.
Kirk: I read you captain. Let’s have it.
Spock: The situation is grave, Admiral. We won’t have main power for six “days”. Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible, in two “days”. By the book, Admiral.
Kirk: Meaning you can’t even beam us back?
Spock: Not at present.
Kirk: Captain Spock, if you don’t hear from us within one hour, your orders are to restore what power you can, take the Enterprise to the nearest star base, and alert Starfleet Command as soon as you’re out of jamming range.
Commander Nyota Uhura: Sir, we won’t leave you behind!
Kirk: Uhura, if you don’t hear from us, there won’t be anybody behind. Kirk out.
Saavik: Trouble with the nebula, sir. All that static discharge and gas will cloud our visual display. Tactical won’t function, and shields will be useless!
Spock: Sauce for the goose, Mr Saavik – the odds will be even!
Dr. McCoy: Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that’s in there!
Spock: As you are so fond of observing, doctor, I am not human.
David Marcus: Lieutenant Saavik was right: You never have faced death.
Kirk: No. Not like this. I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing.
David Marcus: You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.
Kirk: Just words.
David Marcus: But good words. That’s where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you. And I’m sorry.
Kirk: Is that what you came here to say?
David Marcus: Mainly. And also that I’m proud – very proud – to be your son.
Spock: Jim, be careful.
McCoy: We will!
Kirk: I suppose you’re about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions?
Spock: I would not remind you of that which you know so well.
Captain Terrell: Sir, I demand…
Khan: You are in a position to demand *nothing*. I, on the other hand, am in a position to *grant* nothing.
Kirk: Khan!
Khan: You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.
Khan: Let them eat static.
Saavik: Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical.
Kirk: We learn by doing.
Kirk: I hate inspections.
Sulu: I’m delighted. Any chance to go aboard the Enterprise.
Kirk: Well, I for one am glad to have you at the helm for three weeks. I don’t think these kids can steer.
Kirk: Physician, heal thyself.
McCoy: Is that all you’ve got to say? What about my performance?
Kirk: I’m not a drama critic!
Chekov: Botany Bay? Botany Bay! Oh, no! We’ve got to get out of here now. Damn!
Capt. Terrell: What about…
Chekov: Hurry!
Capt. Terrell: What about the…
Chekov: Never mind that. Hurry! Hurry!
Capt. Terrell: Chekov, what’s the matter with you?