#the wrath of Khan

[spirk-trek]

Daring Attempt Fanzine #7 | Shellie Whild & Tere Ann Roderick, 1987 + scenes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Sad Song by Tere Roderick

I watched a friend die today...

It was an easy death -- As deaths go. He just seemed to slip further and further from me Until I could not feel him "there" anymore. It was not an heroic death, No glory... Only the silence of an unshed tear. Now I sit staring into the brandy... I do not drink... did not drink... before... Or so I told him. Now the amber fluid is all I have. I watched a friend die today. My soul went with him.

[thedeepgreensea]

SAAVIK! (i genuinely gasped when she first came on screen)

Bonus little half assed hair-up version I did when I was digitalising the sketch

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[thespacecreature]

[secretstartrekblog]

khan: from hell’s heart, i stab at thee

kirk: I FUCKED YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDAUGHTER IN 21ST CENTURY CANADA

[maulthots]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[samanthamulder]

STAR TREK II: the wrath of khan (1982)

[lessons-from-moths]

im watching star trek for the first time and it's going really well

[merrysithmas]

ok but the scene in the Wrath of Khan where kirk is called down to the radiation chamber bc spock is dying is.... SO SO spousal-coded like my god

the tones everyone uses, the stilted silences, the unwillingness or inability to say those words to kirk's face.

the dread in bone's voice. the doctor. that TONE.

"jim you better get down here. hurry."

god it haunts me ever since the first time i watched it! it was just so REAL. and jim knows it. instantly. just like any loving partner would. it's even in the script that bone's tone scares him.

the words no one ever wants to hear. he's about to lose his life partner of 20 years. publically. - and everyone knows it.

he RUNS down to engineering, the way it is filmed it takes so long and it's so horrible like time is stretched out. you dont want to get to the end but you have to - just like jim. and the whole time your heart is pounding just as his is. and the expressions he is met with from bones and scotty... heartbreaking.

like walking into a hospital room where you only need to exchange those horrid expressions.

he is initially angry, barely has any time to register or react before it's over.

the worst kind of goodbye.

IT STILL BREAKS MY HEART CONSTANTLY SCARRED FOR LIFE EVEN THO THEY END UP HAPPILY EVER AFTER OK😭

[dykespock002]

The decision to not include a shot of Bones' crying face during the funeral scene in wok has set the spones angst community back 300 years

[tricorderreading]

Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

Spock has a gift for Jim 📚

[frogayyyy]

first kiss + hesitation + ‘not like this’

good omens s2e6 ‘every day’ // star trek: the wrath of khan

[trek-tracks]

It was never really a choice.

He’d choose the danger every time.

[your-name-is-jim]

Just another day of feeling normal about this scene. (I’m lying.)

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[theyboldlywent]

ILM's Don Dow films the Mutara Nebula for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

In an interview for Star Trek: The Magazine (that was cited in the excellent Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Making of the Classic Film,) Ken Ralston related how they created the Nebula in a cloud tank:

"It was probably five or six feet deep by eight to ten feet wide. I used a concoction of some kind of [liquid] rubber material mixed with white cartoon paint. It took a lot of care. If I remember this right, you'd put in a layer of salt water, lay a plastic sheet on top of it, and then you'd put in a layer of just regular water. You would very gently remove the palstic, and the salt would keep an inversion layer where the two met so they wouldn't mix, and that would give you some interesting ways to play with what you did with the rubber. I had these long (for lack of a butter description) turkey basters, and to make it more interesting, you'd start to kind of churn the layers around a little bit and create these different shapes for it."