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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Dude. Don't make me bust open a fresh can. [list] Quote: that "Reliant" sensors cannot tell when a planet is the planet they think it is; that those "gun" tricorders are crap; among other beliefs that do not normally have to be suspened. [/list] Come on, a couple little technical issues. That's Star Trek standard fare. It just wouldn't be the same if everything added up :) [list] Quote: All of this to use Khan [/list] Who would you suggest over Khan? Who could be better? Here we have this vicious and vindictive superman with superior strength, intelligence and ambition unleashed on a naked earth to start a new civilization. Which he does, trying to play by the new rules (I remember thinking after seeing the ep but before the movie that it'd be neat to see how they fared, Aban). So here's this old-school facist superman, bruised pride and all, trying to fit into the new era, to choose life. Then by some tragic twist of fate six months later <BOOM!> Ceti Alpha 6 explodes throwing Ceti Alpha 5 out of its orbit and laying everything to waste. Suddenly, Khan's paradise is lost, and he has Kirk to blame. For twenty-years Khan stews in his hatred. This genious mind in this body politic of �bermen tested by this most inhospitable environment. His beautiful wife driven mad and dying because of a parasite knawing on her brain just as Khan's contempt for Kirk knaws at his own. His hatred becomes razor sharp. Who else could embody that? Some unchronicled anonymous yo-yo from Kirk's checkered past? Someone else suggested Harvey Mudd. Garth? C'mon. Khan was scary because he was so close to Kirk. You believe his vengeance. His hatred was utterly tangible, and his character terrifying. I'm starting to think you're just trying to get a rise out of us by attacking a classic. Granted, it is my opinion that STII is hands down the best of the series. (It is, in fact, my favorite movie of all time. No I'm completely serious. I'm not joking. Yes, better than Citizen Kane and Star Wars put together.) It had so much to say and it said it so well. I can overlook some little flaws. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie and got so swept up in the themes and story and characters that I wasn't paying attention to the details. So many films these days would have you focus on the SFX and the hotness of the lead actors without paying hardly any attention to the story whatsoever. Are you gonna sit there and ignore a good story for what are ultimately inconsequential details? I guess that's your choice, but I'll take great story over little details any day. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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