{"id":181463,"date":"2014-11-16T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/16\/no-but-can-you-imagine-being-a-trekkie-when-wrath\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:43:55","slug":"no-but-can-you-imagine-being-a-trekkie-when-wrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/16\/no-but-can-you-imagine-being-a-trekkie-when-wrath\/","title":{"rendered":"No, but can you imagine being a Trekkie when Wrath of Khan was in theaters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

gardnerhill<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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highpriestessofjogan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Like\u2026they killed Spock\u2026<\/p>\n

I would have been on the floor of the theater sobbing my heart out during the scene at the reactor, and I might have just drowned from my tears during the funeral. \u00a0How did people emotionally survive that experience? \u00a0And Leonard Nimoy doing the voiceover at the end? \u00a0<\/p>\n

HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THAT MOVIE? \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Honey. I was there.<\/p>\n

I was a Star Trek fan when that meant you were a fan of that one, old, cancelled TV show from the 60s in perpetual reruns on Channel 5. After eagerly waiting all year only to be bored and disappointed by ST:TMP, I knew Wrath of Khan was going to be good – the real ST mojo was back in all the rumors flying (pre-Internet). Nicholas Meyer, author of the brilliant Sherlock Holmes book and movie The Seven Percent Solution <\/em>(which offered a theory as to what actually happened when Holmes \u201cdied\u201d at Reichenbach Falls), was at the helm.<\/p>\n

And I was in the theater first day. We laughed our asses off at \u201cAren\u2019t you dead?\u201d (because the rumor that Spock would die had been leaked – ha ha, whew! Just that Kobayashi simulation!).<\/p>\n

And there wasn\u2019t a sound, or a dry eye, in the theater, when Spock died.<\/p>\n

Well, except for mine. I didn\u2019t cry when Spock died. I didn\u2019t cry at the funeral scene.<\/p>\n

But when Kirk puts his glasses down in his room, and one lens is cracked – the one lens destroyed, making both lenses useless\u2026I started bawling. I know symbolism when I see it.<\/p>\n

(Nicholas Meyer also uses broken glasses to show profound change in his stories – HG Wells breaks his glasses travelling into the future in TIME AFTER TIME, and John Lithgow\u2019s character has one cracked glasses lens after the nuclear bomb hits in THE DAY AFTER.)<\/p>\n

So, yeah. That was an unforgettable experience.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s also why I refused to see ST: Into Darkness.<\/em> JJ Abrams took the most profoundly moving moment in ST Canon and crapped on it like it was the biggest joke ever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

gardnerhill: highpriestessofjogan: Like\u2026they killed Spock\u2026 I would have been on the floor of the theater sobbing my heart out during the scene at the reactor, and I might have just drowned from my tears during the funeral. \u00a0How did people emotionally survive that experience? \u00a0And Leonard Nimoy doing the voiceover at the end? \u00a0 HOW … <\/p>\n

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