Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, to mark its re-release in Irish and British cinemas, Nicholas Meyer’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Now supervising cadets at Starfleet Academy, Admiral James Tiberius Kirk finds himself reflecting on his mortality. A routine training mission provides an unlikely reckoning when genetically engineered superman Khan Noonien Singh escapes from his exile and vows revenge on Kirk as the man who marooned him. Kirk has lived his life on the assumption that there is no such thing as a no-win scenario, but that philosophy is about to be sorely tested.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 25th August 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at The Internet Movie Database.
- Angelique Jackson at Variety reports on the upcoming remake of Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal, August 2022.
- Stephen Mulvey at the BBC looks at why China’s currency has two names, June 2010.
- John Duchak at TrekMovie reports on Gene Roddenberry’s original proposal for Star Trek II, November 2016.
- Harve Bennett talks to StarTrek.com about how Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan came about, August 2010.
- Bob Sallin talks to Den of Geek about working on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, July 2020.
- Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly discusses the relationship between Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek Into Darkness, May 2013.
- Hanh Nguyen at IndieWire reports on Gene Roddenberry’s complaints about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, September 2016.
- Kevin Carr at Film School Rejects reports on Nicholas Meyer’s commentary on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, January 2013.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how the Star Trek franchise moved away from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to embrace Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, November 2021.
- Robert Vaux at Comic Book Resources reports on the hiring of strippers as Khan’s followers in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, February 2022.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog considers the influence of The Wrath of Khan on Cold Station 12, May 2016.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog considers the influence of The Wrath of Khan on Divergence, May 2016.
- Kelly Konda at We Minored in Film considers James Horner’s score for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, June 2015.
- James Horner talks to CinemaScore about writing the soundtrack for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 1985.
- Mike Reyes at CinemaBlend reports on how Gene Roddenberry attempted to sabotage Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, May 2020.
- Darren Dochterman and Mark Altman talk to SyFy Wire about Gene Roddenberry’s objections to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, April 2020.
- Maria Jose and John Tenuto at StarTrek.com consider the origin of the name of Khan Noonien Singh, November 2013.
- John Orquiola at ScreenRant considers the competing explanations for why Kirstie Alley didn’t return for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, November 2021.
- Marc Okrand talks to CNN about inventing the fictional languages for Star Trek, July 2018.
- Nicholas Meyer talks to Yahoo! about shooting Spock’s death scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, June 2022.
- Michael Kmet at Star Trek Fact Check considers the cynical origin of “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”, May 2013.
- Classic Film and TV Cafe considers Gene Roddenberry’s work on The Questor Tapes, December 2012.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog looks at the production and development of The Measure of a Man, January 2014.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the extremely militant fan backlash to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan from traditionalist fans, July 2022.
- Kevin Church shares the advertisements that Star Trek fans took out in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter to protest Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, February 2019.
- Bob Sallin talks to CNet about the death threats he received from fans for working on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, May 2013.
- Bob and Sandra Sallin discuss the death threats their family received for working on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at Apart from my Art, May 2013.
- Darren Mooney talks to Standard Orbit about the complicated relationship between Star Trek and utopianism, November 2017.
- Donald W. White considers The American Century as rooted in the end of the Second World War, 1996.
- George Packer at The Atlantic considers whether the American Century is over, May 2019.
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“At the time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.”
WHAT THE FUCK.
::screens movie again for the first time in way too many years::
… No, seriously. What, and I can’t possibly stress this enough, the fuck.