Why Wrath Of Khan Will Always Be The Best Star Trek Movie
Star Warsreally did change everything. After the smash hit film landed in 1977 and took the box office for everything it was worth, hanging around in theaters month after month raking it in, every studio in town wanted their own version of the money minting space opera. Cue Paramount looking at the lineup of the recently purchased CBS, and turning their eyes on Star Trek.
Star Trek had been in mothballs since its truncated third season — itself truncating the series from the 5-year mission to seek out strange new planets the intro made so famous. Paramount took the Enterprise out of dry dock, shook the moths out of the yellow, red, and blue velour uniforms, and set sail with the intrepid crew once again. However, it wasn’t until Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that they’d plot the course of the franchise for good. The film is still one of the most iconic pieces of media in the franchise today — and for good reason.
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Having tried to figure out what to do with the show throughout the 70s, Paramount put the rush on Trek when Star Wars took over the box office. They took a look at Gene Roddenberry had been working on, an offered an even more utopian view of the Star Trek property. Humanity, beyond getting past racism and sexism, no longer even suffered interpersonal conflict. Some of what Roddenberry conceived would become Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and some would evolve into what would become Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The first film, however, didn't work so well. It turned a colorful, pulpy sci-fi series in which William Shatner’s Captain Kirk romanced as many alien women as the ship landed on planets, into a colorless bore where
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