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Star trek struggles to remake khan (but that changes with a new spinoff).

Nicholas Meyer has written a Khan spinoff that will explore his exile on Ceti Alpha V, a better take on the Star Trek villain than previous remakes.

Star Trek has always struggled in its attempts to remake Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , but it could finally have found the answer with a new spinoff. The second feature-length outing for the Star Trek: The Original Series cast is regularly cited as the best Star Trek movie, and so it's easy to see why the franchise has often revisited it. A sequel to Star Trek season 1, episode 22, "Space Seed", the movie saw Khan Noonien-Singh (Ricardo Montalban) seek revenge against Captain Kirk (William Shatner) for exiling him to the doomed Ceti Alpha V.

Star Trek: Nemesis, the final cinematic outing for the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast, featured a similar face-off between Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who sought revenge against the Romulans for exiling him to the dilithium mines of Remus. As a TOS reboot, a remake of Khan in the Kelvin timeline was inevitable . Star Trek Into Darkness was a much more explicit remake of Wrath of Khan , swapping Kirk and Spock's roles slightly, and replaying the events of "Space Seed" against the backdrop of the more militaristic Kelvin timeline. However, both films failed to repeat the successes of Wrath of Khan , and audiences were left wondering about the merit of revisiting such a classic Star Trek story. This year's Star Trek Day celebrations revealed that the franchise would be returning to Wrath of Khan once again, but in a manner that might be more successful than a straight remake.

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Appearing on stage at Star Trek Day, the co-writer and director of Wrath of Khan , Nicholas Meyer, revealed that he and Alex Kurtzmann had worked on a spinoff series about Khan's time in exile, which avoids the issues that yet another movie remake would possess. Originally intended for TV, Star Trek 's Khan comeback never surfaced. Now, Meyer has adapted his scripts as a serialized audio drama entitled Star Trek: Khan: Ceti Alpha V. It will explore what happened to Khan and his disciples during the fifteen years between "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Khan , including the tragic death of his wife. It's an exciting prospect that is also the only satisfying way to revisit the iconic Star Trek villain.

Focus On Khan's Life On Ceti Alpha Won't Tarnish His Star Trek Legacy

The Wrath of Khan gives some insight into what happened to Khan and his fellow Augments after Kirk exiled them to Ceti Alpha V. Khan tells Chekov (Walter Koenig) that the neighboring planet, Ceti Alpha VI exploded six months after they arrived, and their new home became a barren and inhospitable world. It's not clear at exactly what point Ceti Alpha V will begin from, but the explosion of Ceti Alpha VI feels like a good starting point. The fact that the Starfleet ships took 15 years to discover that Ceti Alpha VI exploded opens up an interesting exploration of how the seemingly utopian Federation deal with criminals.

In "Space Seed", Khan and his Augments were effectively abandoned by Starfleet and the Federation on a world that was described as " somewhat habitable ". Despite the explosion of the neighboring planet, it's clear from Wrath of Khan that no help was forthcoming. A spinoff series focusing on Khan attempting to keep his wife and his disciples alive in an increasingly hostile environment for over a decade with no help forthcoming will provide a fascinating character arc. Khan was never a hero, but Ceti Alpha V will be the perfect way for Star Trek to explore how he went from the suave and sophisticated leader of "Space Seed" to the vengeful, bloodthirsty warrior that appears in The Wrath of Khan .

40 years later, Star Trek will finally solve a classic Khan mystery

What happened on Ceti Alpha V after the Enterprise left?

Khan is back! After several years of speculation and rumor , a prequel series all about the Star Trek villain's exile on Ceti Alpha V is finally happening. But the format might not be what fans expected. Here’s what to know about what to expect from the Wrath of Khan prequel series, and how it's poised to answer a burning Trekkie question four decades in the making.

On Star Trek Day 2022, Nicholas Meyer — director of The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country , and consulting producer on Discovery Season 1 — made a surprise announcement: The infamous Star Trek supervillain Khan Noonien Singh will finally get his own series. But it will happen in the form of a limited-run scripted podcast.

According to Paramount:

“The scripted podcast will examine what happened in the years after Captain Kirk left Khan on the untamed world of Ceti Alpha V and tells the story of Khan and his followers prior to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. ”

What does this all mean? Let’s dive in.

Khan: Ceti Alpha V timeline, explained

In between the Star Trek episode “Space Seed,” and the return of Khan in The Wrath of Khan , 18 years pass. So in theory, the new Khan series will explore the time between 2267 and 2285. The large question the series will answer is: what exactly happened during that time ?

But that question also leads to several other smaller questions fans have had for years. Such as:

• When did Khan’s wife pass away?
• Where did his younger followers come from?
• Why didn’t Starfleet send another ship to check on Khan?
• How could the Reliant have confused Ceti Alpha VI for Ceti Alpha V?
• How did Khan get that sweet necklace? (Okay maybe this question doesn’t need to be answered.)

Nicholas Meyer onstage for “Star Trek Day,” announcing Star Trek: Khan.

Star Trek: Khan , explained

According to Paramount, the series will be produced by Alex Kurtzman, Aaron Baiers, Trevor Roth, and Rod Roddenberry . However, sole writing credit seems to be going to Nicholas Meyer, the visionary behind The Wrath of Khan . Back when rumors of a Khan miniseries first started circulating in 2017, Meyer wrote to Inverse jokingly saying “I khannot possibly comment” on the existence of the concept, which pretty much confirmed it was in development. But now, what’s great is that it seems that Meyer will get to write what is basically a radio play entirely on his own.

As Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman put it:

“Nick made the definitive ‘Trek’ movie when he made ‘Wrath,’ and we’ve all been standing in its shadow since. Forty years have offered him a lot of perspective on these extraordinary characters and the way they’ve impacted generations of fans. Now he’s come up with something as surprising, gripping and emotional as the original, and it’s a real honor to be able to let him tell the next chapter in this story exactly the way he wants to.”

Star Trek has never done this before. An in-canon scripted podcast is officially a new venture for the franchise. Although the official Trek podcast, The Pod Directive — hosted by Tawny Newsome and Paul F. Tompkins — has been around since 2020, a scripted fictional podcast is bold new territory for the final frontier.

Do we know the Star Trek: Khan release date and cast?

Khan in “Space Seed.”

So, when do we get to hear Khaaaaaan? Well, right now, there’s no release date. The Pod Directive will return in early 2023, but we’re just going to have to wait a little longer for Khan . There’s also no voice cast, yet. Ricardo Montalbán, who played Khan in “Space Seed” and The Wrath , passed away in 2009. Benedict Cumberbatch played the alternate Khan in 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness , but it feels unlikely he’d voice the character for this project.

At this point, we don’t know. But when it comes to Khan, Trek fans can wait. It’s already been 40 years. What’s a few more months?

This article was originally published on Sep. 8, 2022

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan review – Spock and Kirk shine in charming Enterprise revisit

The 1982 sequel to the original Star Trek film, featuring a film debut for Kirstie Alley, returns to cinemas with its crowdpleasing zap and raw emotion intact

T he 1982 sequel to the original Star Trek feature film is now re-released: a brisker, brasher work directed by Nicholas Meyer which moved away from the more lugubrious, Kubrickian ambitions of the first film and back to the crowdpleasing zap of the TV show, importantly starting with the irresistible theme tune. However, 60s TV Star Trek would surely never have given us anything like the rather extraordinary moment included in this movie: chief engineer Mr Scott is discreetly treated for a certain ailment by Dr McCoy, because of his recent “shore leave”. Too much information there about Mr Scott’s private life.

Wrath of Khan is the film that sensationally gave us the heroic and tragic sacrifice of Mr Spock, a wonderful performance of sonorous gravitas from Leonard Nimoy. That calamity traumatised its audiences and taught future generations of franchise-creators from Star Wars to Harry Potter that nothing grabs the fanbase like a big death. The Spock demise was further elevated in pop culture a decade later on the Seinfeld TV show when it was revealed that Jerry’s friend George Constanza was, in adult life, more moved by the memory of Spock’s fate than by the death of his own fiancee.

The situation aboard the USS Enterprise is that Spock is now captain, mentoring a commander-in-training, Saavik, played by Kirstie Alley in her debut film role. There has been another uniform redesign: tunics are now a deep cherry red, thus confounding the “red jersey” stigma, traditionally the colour of other ranks’ uniforms, those most likely to die when beamed down to other planets with more important cast-members.

Admiral James T Kirk (William Shatner) is yearning to get away from desk responsibility and see action once again. He is grimly aware of the passing years, made more piquant by a birthday present from his plain-speaking pal, Dr McCoy (DeForest Kelley): a pair of reading glasses. But Admiral Kirk’s inspection of the Enterprise coincides with a threat from his old nemesis Khan (an enjoyably hammy Ricardo Montalbán) who tries to steal a terrifyingly powerful new invention: the Genesis, which has the power to create biological lifeforms on desolate planets, but also to destroy lifeforms that are already there.

The unspeakable Khan gains an insidious access to the Enterprise by capturing Chekov (Walter Koenig) and getting a little reptile’s offspring to slither into his ear, thus putting him under a hypnotic influence: a truly creepy moment. And so the duel between Kirk and his old adversary begins, with the Admiral periodically shouting “Khaaaaan!” in pedantic moments of defiance. It’s still entertaining and charming in its innocent idealism.

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‘star trek: strange new worlds’ showrunner confirms khan link.

Trek's most popular villain could be eventually making his way into the new Paramount+ series.

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The showrunner of Paramount+’s upcoming Star Trek :   Strange New Worlds confirmed fandom speculation that there’s a significant link to the franchise’s greatest villain in the new series.

Previously, actress Christina Chong was announced as playing a series regular named La’an Noonien-Singh in the show. Fans know Captain Kirk’s superhuman nemesis Khan was named Khan Noonien Singh. During the show’s Television Critics Association panel on Tuesday, co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman was asked if it’s fair to assume this new character is related to the infamous Khan.

“She’s related to Khan, for sure, and, uh, and the deal will unfold —” Goldsman said, before pausing. “We don’t want to bring folks into the show to be splashy. We want to dig deeply into characters that are part of our ensemble and then, obviously, we’re open. … But right now, what you see is what you get.”

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While that comment is a bit guarded, it hints that Khan will eventually make an appearance, just not until after the current cast is established (at the end of the first season finale, for instance, would be right in line with the sort of revelations that sister series Star Trek: Discovery has done previously).

Strange New Worlds is a direct prequel to the original Star Trek series , which first introduced the character, so the timeline roughly works.

Khan was played by a scenery chewing Ricardo Montalbán, most memorably in 1982’s Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan . The character was also played by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness .

Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) as he leads the U.S.S. Enterprise in the years before Captain Kirk. The show is billed as a return to the classic planet-of-the-week space exploration format of the original Star Trek series. It also stars Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are co-showrunners of the CBS Studios series.

Strange New Worlds begins May 5 on Paramount+.

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Abrams: Star Trek Sequel Will Not Be ‘Remake’ – But Khan Still A Possibility

| November 2, 2009 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 499 comments so far

Khan 2.0? In an interview with MTV , JJ Abrams noted one of the advantage of the new universe timeline that was set up in the first film, and notes that finding a new Khan is no different than recasting the main crew:

Now that we are in a parallel existence with what fans of the original series love so much, we could introduce any number of characters, settings, references and situations that the original series introduced. Dealing with Khan would certainly be a challenge, but we had an equal challenge in finding our crew of the Enterprise.

It should be noted that Abrams was not saying Khan is in the movie, just pointing out that it is still possible, he went into more detail, saying

While I don’t want to approach the second film as a remake of episodes we’ve seen in the past. I don’t think any of the writers or producers are interested in just rehashing or throwing characters for the sake of it, and Khan is certainly the most obvious one in the history of the series for me, I do think that…nothing is off limits in terms of what we’re discussing. When Bob Orci and the others who know ‘Trek’ so well, when we are discussing stories, the fun of working with them is they know this universe so deeply they’re the ones who are always considering what it means to deal with the stuff in the past, so it’ll be exciting.

Listen to Abrams comments here:

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KHAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON’T DO IT

…it’s a no-brainer…

“I don’t think any of the writers or producers are interested in just rehashing or throwing characters for the sake of it…”

Really? So you guys are going in a completely different direction with this one. Delta Vega, Spock Prime, or Chekov ring any bells?

Don’t do it. Use an original idea and create a story based on someone or something else. Star Trek II is my favorite out of them all, the Shat was awesome and Montalban was spectacular. Don’t try to out do the best movie of the series, create something yourself.

Dammit Jim, I’m a moviemaker – I don’t have original ideas!

How about Mudd’s men instead of Mudd’s women …….. not that there is anything wrong with that

NO! If we’re gonna rehash the series, I’d like to see Harry Mudd or Cyrano Jones create some serious universe threatening problem. Wouldn’t you like to see Harry Mudd unwittingly create a situation that threatens the entire Earth or some other part of the universe?

Worst. Idea. Ever.

Quit trying to go back to the damn well for a bucket o’ hermetically-sealed antagonist so often. Want to ladle out a pop culture reference to the die-hards? Try bringing back Gary Mitchell, only this time without the microwaved giblets and slept-in contact lenses. Make him a classmate of Kirk’s and his weapons chief, who likes to tweak Chekov’s fuzzy widdle cheeks. Don’t be so overt with the tributes and tip o’ the hats. Star Trek hasn’t had a memorable bad guy since the Borg showed up.

C’mon, guys, think: what sort of menace could there possibly be out there that your industry hasn’t milked yet, but would scare the jammies off of people?

Very cool. Obviously they are focused on the story and not a character gimmick to drive the next movie.

Bring it on! I’m ready to see what they do.

the bad guy should be playted by Andy Samberg as the guy in Space Olympics

Can we stop with the whole “threatens the entire Earth” plot already? Is that all Star Trek has become, a lame wannabe comic book film franchise? “Saving the Earth, Episode 4!”

Maybe Khan should kill spock prime, then use his shapeshifting ability to take over the jellyfish. Then maybe it could turn into a big pile of poo .

I am still holding out that we will not see Khan in the next film. I really don’t see any reason to go down that road, but I accept that my opinion is just that… an opinion. If the guys have come upon some clever way to make Khan work, I’ll go along with it. But since they are still, apparently, in the story-making stage, I’m jumping up and down and waving like a frantic idiot shouting, “We already had Khan, we don’t need him again!!!!!”

Look, I voted to see Gary Mitchell and Christine Chapel in the next film, and, while I could go along with seeing Klingons as the villians, I’d love to see the Gorn, or the Tholians, or one of the more obscure alien species cast as the villian. But I simply have no desire to see Khan.

Khan and lens flares.

All in all, I’d rather more creativity than re-imagination. Hollywood redoing Hollywood has never been worthwhile. Khan is a boring choice. If one must mine past Star Treks for inspiration, I’d rather they return to the old Enterprise!

Sincerely, C.S. Lewis

Now that the lawsuit is over with Harlan Ellison – Remake ” City on the edge of forever “

please don’t do it. It takes them at least 2 years to make a movie and we don’t have any tv shows to hold us over in between. That means the only chance (currently) for new star trek is the movies. So please don’t waste our time with a completely unoriginal movie.

I’m definitely open to any of their ideas at this point. They did a phenomenal job with Star Trek and I’ll trust them to do a good job with the new one.

Man, what’s with all the Khan hate? He was a memorable villain and an interesting character. If they handled the character right, I wouldn’t mind seeing new stories with him in it. I DO think that if JJ is going to do Khan, he shouldn’t do it in the sequel. He’s such a memorable bad guy that he should be saved for a few movies down the road (& possible hinted at in the sequel?). Especially when there are so many iconic baddies left to explore, the Klingons being chief among them. Heck, for that matter we haven’t even seen the Romulans (of this time line) yet…

The risk in writing Khan back in as a character is that everyone will be comparing the movie to TWOK moreso than usual. If they cast a really good actor though I think a lot of people would be silent on the issue though.

As other fans have suggested and your poll to the right – the addition of a new strong (Hot) female lead character to the Enterprise bridge; to be the new in-house antagonist to Kirk and to be a true rival to Spock, would allow for continued conflict on the bridge and greater exploration of all our human emotions.] > Lieutenant Commander “__?__ ”, a Andorian / Human hybrid > https://market.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1648565&member > graduated second in her class to Spock from Starfleet Academy – current posting, first officer aboard the Andorian Federation Flag Ship – but she has been obsessed with a command post on the Enterprise since her construction began.

So the next time Kirk and Spock leave the bridge for a “landing party” we don’t have to see ever again a 17 year old Chekov in command of the Enterprise!

{Possible Canon – This new character could be the great grand daughter of Commander/ General Thy’lek Shran- http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Thy%27lek_Shran the grand child of his daughter Talla Shran— and her human Star Fleet officer husband?}

Again, just one emample…

There’d be such a flaw with having Khan in the next movie. JJ would have to introduce him, have Kirk royally piss him off, and then vow revenge; all in the span of 2 1/2 hours. To do all that, JJ would need do the first two things within the first 30-45 minutes or so. The next 90-120 minutes would be devoted to the whole revenge deal.

The character of Khan would need a multi-movie arc to portray him as well as Gene Roddenberry and Nicholas Meyer imagined. Those are movies that I don’t think JJ is up for making.

I’m so going to copy this:

-zooms out into the vacuum of space, yet is stil audible- KKKKKHHHHHAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!

No Khan,no episode remake, please!!!!! Be original for the love of Trek!!!!!

I say Klingon female villain!

Please don’t do it; maybe down the line after this gang has a few movies under their belt, but not now.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!

Do Klingons! You could do Gary Mitchell, he deserves his own movie and he’d be a good match for new Kirk. You could do anything from the Original Series that was a great episode that already has not had a feature length film devoted to it, thus, no more Khan!

And no more talk of old trek series cast tie-ins! This is a new alternate reality! No more gimmicks! Original ideas only!

Khan is still one of the best villains of all time, he doesn’t need a reboot!! Besides, nobody could match Ricardo Montalban’s performance. He IS Khan Noonien Singh! In my opinion, Klingons are the way to go!

Enough with Khan. Been there, done that, and very well, too.

No Borg. Don’t screw up the 23rd century with a 24th century villain.

Best solution?

THE GORN. Lots of them. What makes them tick? Why have they attacked so many Federation outposts?

Maybe you can tie in the creatures of Operation: Annihilate! with the Gorn. They’re overwhelming Gorn homeworlds, they’re pissed, and they’re taking it out on the Federation, because they think it’s their fault. And we can’t seem to communicate with them and convince them otherwise.

I swear, there is SO MUCH MORE to be mined from the original series than Khan again. Please.

Why explore Classic Khan when there is so much more unexplored Khan territory…like Gengis Khan, Zor Khan, or even the most nefarious of all…The Comic Khan.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We’ve worked this hard to reboot the franchise, so now we’re gonna rehash Khan?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Can’t we tell *one* original story? Please? Especially since we’re gonna have to wait three years for it?

Bring on the Gorn. Call him Gor-Khan.

Yes we Kahn? I don’t think so.

It always perplexed me that Star Trek [The Tele Vision] which had a virtually open ended galaxy of story line possibilities kept recycling episode plots. Of course I understand re-imagining the crew of the Enterprise for its past and our future (are you with me so far?) but bringing back an epi *and* a movie villain, I’m just saying…

FWIW, I don’t think sneero was such a great villain. But he had a monster truck.

You can get way bad ass out there in the universe so there’s no real need for the snarling boy from the Botany Bay. AND, you can’t use Ricardo Montalban anymore, and he was what made Kahn, not the writing. So if you have to recast it, go the freakin distance and create a worthy, nuanced, invincible foe. And hire a real actor to play her.

no khan please…it would be star trek ripping off star trek

Roberto and Orci are not the brilliant writers that this site keeps shoving down our throats that they are. Get some new guys who can write a story that is fun and exciting, not spock walking away from the bridge in horror after Kirk rips away his command and says his dead mother never loved him… and then become best friends out of that.

Stop exposing trek for your freakin paycheck…stick with transformers… and leave Khan alone.

11. sci-fi bri – November 2, 2009

the bad guy should be playted by Andy Samberg as the guy in Space Olympics ———————————————————————————————

Or, better yet.. LASER CATS!!! LOL

I agree, no more “threat to Earth” scenarios..

1. No “alien probe” or V’ger-type threat to the Earth 2. No Khan (at least, not yet) 3. No Khan-like/Nero-like/Schinzon-like, single villain vs. the Enterprise 4. No “super alien” Borg-type opponent

Something very, very original.. maybe a threat more “X-Files”-like in nature, more of a paranormal/mystery-type threat or disaster? (Some people may hate that idea. I’m just brainstorming, here)

No Khan, no Orci and no Kurtzman.

do harry mudd!

How about this.. the Enterprise collides with the Allspark in deep space, turning the Enterprise into a Transformer.

Harry Mudd is gay.

#31 “THE GORN. Lots of them. What makes them tick? Why have they attacked so many Federation outposts?”

I agree! The GORN. “Remember Cestus III !”

Hell JJ, you can reflect lens flares off the multi-facetted eyes of the Gorn and I wont even fraking bitch about it. Just DO NOT DO KHAN! There’s just some things that should be considered sacred and should be left alone.

#16 – talk about stale (TOS ENT)

I would love to see a new Khan with someone like Javier Bardem, as has been suggested elsewhere. Khan means business and he’s a villain that the audience would take seriously. Throw in some Klingons and we have a helluva film!

yes kurtzman/orci, no khan

People keep forgetting that if they do Khan, it wont be a remake of the “Wrath of Khan” it will be the episode when they introduce Khan

Khan can’t have a Wrath without being introduced now can he?

i would dig some khan flares in a brewery. ilea, or any hot bald indian babe would be sweet, too. and bring back janice rand! only this time, base her on lee whitney and make her a boozy sex addict. oh yeah.

but in this future, couldn’t khan be like a sweet, eco-friendly guy who runs a little space cafe? with like, batter-fried earslugs on the menu?

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While  Khan is the February focus, Ferguson and Vice Press are already moving well down the theatrical line on the other  Star Trek film releases. Ferguson commented on Twitter that the company has “great scans” of the  Star Trek IV  original poster,  though he’s faced challenges with  Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

The artist noted that  Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was “a lost cause” for a while due to lack of original resources, but through a great deal of effort is approaching a satisfactory update to the original  Star Trek VI key art poster.

I’m so happy to be able to do this to preserve the artwork as best as I can. Lots of research, purchases of one sheets, scanning, colour correcting, cleaning up and painting. Combining the best elements of multiple sources. It will all be released soon through Vice Press. — Matt Ferguson (@Cakes_Comics) November 24, 2023

Somewhere. But the estate doesn’t have it and the scans at the studio that I’ve got access to aren’t the best. So I see it as my duty do try and get them to a place where they can be preserved before they are lost. — Matt Ferguson (@Cakes_Comics) November 24, 2023

As a reminder, the new  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan poster releases will launch at the Vice Press website this Thursday, February 1, at 6PM (GMT) / 1PM (ET) / 10AM (PT) on February 1.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan vs. Star Trek Into Darkness, Compared

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It's difficult to compare two different films from different decades, especially as far as which one is "better" than the other. In the case of the Star Trek franchise, there are two films based on the same story but share very little else in common.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a beloved sci-fi classic that sees Kirk's old adversary, Khan Noonien-Singh, return to hunt down and destroy the man that left him to rot on a dying planet years before.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a loose adaptation of that Khan storyline, which sees the feared warrior wage a solo war against Starfleet for the kidnapping and assumed death of his crew.

Both films are vastly different when it comes to tone, with Into Darkness being J.J. Abrams' attempt to bring Khan Noonien-Singh into a newer, more modern era of Star Trek movies.

Which one is better, the 1982 original or the 2013 remake? Here's our comparison of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan versus Star Trek Into Darkness and how they fare together.

Overall Direction

Most people today know about J.J. Abrams, but they aren't familiar with the career work of Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . For that reason alone, most tend to side with Abrams as the superior sci-fi storyteller.

But when you pit both films side-by-side, Meyer's work can't be underestimated. He managed to create a sense of tension throughout the film without ever having Khan and Kirk meet one another in person.

Meyer drew exquisite performances from his leading actors, with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at their very best under Meyer's delicate direction. Meanwhile, Ricardo Montalbán's Ahab-like madness gave the Enterprise their greatest threat—and an impressive adversarial chest.

On the other hand, Abrams leaned on Meyer's work enough that Into Darkness can be called a remake, but not so much that it can be considered a rip-off. He made a strong hire in Benedict Cumberbatch to replace Montalbán in the role of Khan.

On balance, Meyer did a better job in the director's chair than Abrams. He managed to find a way to work with the egos of his actors—who all knew their roles inside out—while creating a tale that made Star Trek feel like a work of classic literature.

Khan's Portrayal

The silliest part about both Ricardo Montalbán and Benedict Cumberbatch portraying Khan is that neither have Indian heritage.

Montalbán is South American while Cumberbatch is British, meaning neither should have been handed the role in the first place. However, with that aside, how well did each one actually do in the role?

The two actors draw entirely different performances from the material they found in their scripts: Montalbán had a more Shakespearean take on the character than the more terrorist-minded Cumberbatch.

Looking back at Montalbán's Khan, he's an impressive warlord who seeks revenge against Kirk for abandoning him and his crew on a desolate planet—something that wasn't the fault of Kirk.

As the original Khan, Montalbán—who also portrayed the villain in the actual series—was fearsome due to his ability to command and his enhanced body that was designed by eugenics.

However, Cumberbatch chose to give Khan a more outwardly ruthless exterior with no mind for posturing or taunting. Instead, he replaced the self-aggrandization with a burning rage felt through the screen.

Moreso, Cumberbatch's Khan felt smarter than Montalbán's. He used whomever he could to gain the upper hand, knowing his physical superiority was enough to fall back on should anything turn against him.

In the end, Cumberbatch wins simply because of his menace and terrifying single-minded mission of destruction.

Emotional Impact

The entire point of Spock's role in The Wrath of Khan was to die at the end because Leonard Nimoy wanted to bow out after almost two decades in the role. Meanwhile, Into Darkness flipped the script on Spock's death and gave the heroic sacrifice to Kirk (who's later revived, anyway).

Though the films handled their situations differently, the plot point is almost identical: both have to save the Enterprise by fixing the core, becoming exposed to lethal radiation in the process.

Into Darkness is no slouch when it comes to its big moment, with Spock watching Jim die from the other side of protective glass—then subsequently becoming angry enough to hunt down Khan himself.

However, the final moments of The Wrath of Khan , in which Kirk says goodbye to Spock after he's saved the Enterprise from destruction, is heartbreaking. The funeral scene shows the depth of emotion Kirk has for Spock when he breaks while delivering the eulogy.

Between the two, there is no contest: The Wrath of Khan has far more depth of emotional impact than Into Darkness .

Overall Performances

Both movies feature impressive ensemble performances that are great examples of how to showcase life on a starship.

Into Darkness succeeds in its smaller moments, as the relationship between Kirk and Spock becomes solidified by loss while the rest of the crew find their places under Kirk's leadership.

However, with The Wrath of Khan , the crew had already been on many adventures together for years on the series. This gave the film's performances a different dynamic with all the pre-established depth and history between the characters.

There's a sense of fun distrust in Into Darkness that doesn't exist in The Wrath of Khan , while the core of the original feels deeper with the wealth of experience we'd already had with the characters.

Ultimately, this one comes down to what you prefer in a sci-fi film, but we're giving it to The Wrath of Khan for better ensemble performance.

And the Verdict Is...

Between the two films, one ekes out ahead of the other, but not by much. The winner is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan !

There's plenty to like about Star Trek Into Darkness , which benefits from modern filmmaking technology and an updated story that's vibrant and fun in a new way.

But there's a reason why The Wrath of Khan is a sci-fi classic. It simply has a depth that the remake lacks, along with a sense of intimidation that's hard to replicate.

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan Ending Explained: I Feel Young

When a story is part of a long-running series, it's harder to appreciate its ending. Doubly so for a film like "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," which innately does not stand on its own. It's a sequel, but not so much to the first film as to the TV series episode "Space Seed." Said episode depicted the Enterprise discovering the ancient ship "SS Botany Bay" adrift in space. Aboard is Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) , a genetically enhanced tyrant from Earth's past. After failing to seize the Enterprise, Khan and his crew are exiled to Ceti Alpha V, an uncivilized, out-of-the-way planet: "It's better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

"The Wrath of Khan" is best experienced if you're familiar with its characters' backgrounds. Likewise, its own sequel, "The Search for Spock," is centered around undoing the ending of "Khan," where Spock (Leonard Nimoy) sacrifices himself to save his friends. Thus, looked at as part of a larger canon, "The Wrath of Khan" can feel like a transient film. And yet, it's also a classic and the most satisfying of the six "Star Trek" films starring the original cast.

Divorcing the film from canon and judging it on its own merits, here is how the film's themes and characterizations tie together in a complete package.

Aging and consequence

"The Wrath of Khan" features the 50th birthday of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Kirk's character arc in the film is a mid-life crisis. In the series, he was always a clever, larger-than-life adventurer. Now he's unsure if he can be that adventurer anymore and is humanized because of it. As Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) pointedly asks his Captain, "Damn it Jim, what the hell is the matter with you? Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?" McCoy answered his own question by gifting Kirk a pair of reading glasses, the implication being that Kirk can't rely on his own dulled sense anymore.

All Kirk seems to have left is consequences. For one, there's his son David Marcus (Merritt Butrick), who was raised by his mother Carol (Bibi Besch) since Kirk was never around to be a father. Now that his relationship with David is non-existent, Kirk questions if he made the right decision.

A more unexpected consequence comes from Khan. As it turns out, Ceti Alpha V's neighboring planet exploded a mere six months after Khan's exile. With their new home ravaged by the shockwave, the Botany Bay crew barely clung to survival. Kirk never paid Khan a second thought after "Space Seed." Khan, though, spent every day of those 15 years thinking of Kirk. When the Starfleet ship Reliant visits the Ceti Alpha system, Khan hijacks the ship to get his revenge.

Melville allusions

While reigning in hell, Khan's only entertainment was a small library of classic literature . Among them is Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Now Khan has appointed himself in the role of Ahab, determined to get revenge for a long past wound. He even paraphrases Melville to explain his pursuit of Kirk. Khan's levelheaded lieutenant Joachim (Judson Scott) is Starbuck; he offers his leader sound advice only to be ignored.

Of course, anyone who's read "Moby Dick" (and many who haven't) could tell you how it ends. Ahab's obsession with killing the white whale destroys not only the captain himself but his crew too. The same happens to Khan's crew, who follow their leader to defeat and death. As Khan lays dying and makes one final play to destroy the Enterprise, he again quotes Melville: "To the last, I grapple with thee ... From Hell's Heart I stab at thee ... For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

The beautiful prose, and Montalban's acting, belie how futile this statement is. Ahab utters them just as he stabs the white whale with his harpoon, but fails to inflict any lethal damage. Khan, likewise, fails to kill Kirk.

No-win scenario

"The Wrath of Khan" opens with Starfleet cadet Saavik ( Kirstie Alley ) taking a battle simulation test called the Kobayashi Maru. In said test, the cadet role-plays as a starship captain who has to rescue the eponymous ship trapped in Klingon territory. If you don't rescue the ship, the Kobayashi Maru crew dies. If you try to rescue it, Klingons appear and your crew  dies. As explained later, the test is unwinnable and designed to teach cadets about no-win scenarios. Kirk, though, cheated when he took the test, for he doesn't believe in no-win scenarios. The film is designed to test that belief.

During the first battle with Khan, the Enterprise is disabled. Kirk pulls a last-minute ploy, transmitting a code to disable Reliant's shields. If it fails, the Enterprise is doomed. Thankfully, as with so many of Kirk's gambles, the plan works. It's not completely a winning hand, though. Due to the attack, one of the engineering cadets, Scotty's (James Doohan) nephew Peter, is dead, foreshadowing the soon-to-come sacrifice that will break Kirk's heart.

When Khan sets the disabled Reliant to detonate, Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation to reactivate the Enterprise's warp drive. The parallels between this and the Kobayashi Maru test are spelled out when the dying Spock admits to Kirk that he never took the test before: "What do you think of my solution?"

This focus on the no-win scenario is another way that "The Wrath of Khan" is focused on consequences. Not every outcome can be a flawlessly executed Corbomite Maneuver , and sometimes people die because of that.

New Genesis

The MacGuffin of "The Wrath of Khan" is called the Genesis device. Developed by the Marcuses, it can terraform planets to create new life where there was none. When Khan learns of it, acquiring it becomes his secondary goal (after killing Kirk). Khan's last plan to destroy the Enterprise is to activate Genesis — the result is a new planet, where Spock's body is laid to rest.

Genesis is another of the film's literary allusions, this one to the Bible instead of Herman Melville. The metaphor also reflects Kirk, not Khan; the hero undergoes a metaphorical rebirth over the film. He begins "The Wrath of Khan" feeling, "Old and worn out." Subsequent events, as traumatic as they can be, shake him out of this. For one, Kirk has reconciled with David and they now have the chance at building a relationship.

While Spock is gone, Kirk won't let his friend's death be the end of the journey. As Kirk looks out at the Genesis planet, he quotes Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," a book Spock had given him for his birthday. That novel ends with one man giving his life to save another from execution. Kirk realizes that this is what Spock has done for him. Ensuring that sacrifice isn't in vain rejuvenates Kirk. Holding back tears, he now declares, "I feel young." Meanwhile, the late Spock is the one who delivers the closing narration ("Space, the final frontier ..."), showing how his memory now pushes Kirk forward.

Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan Review

01 Jan 1982

108 minutes

Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan

Although the slow, gabby, and, frankly, rather insipid Star Trek: The Motion Picture did the business, it was pretty lame to all but the most dedicated, particularly coming two years in the wake of Star Wars.

Nicholas Meyer, a successful novelist (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution) turned able director, understood that the interplay between the characters, back on familiar footing, was as important as the impressive FX. A sequel 15 years on to the classic Trek TV episode Space Seed, the very enjoyable hokum of Wrath Of Khan is energised by the return of a fabulous Ricardo Montalban as the exiled, genetically enhanced tyrant Khan, once ruler of an empire on Earth (round about now, actually) who was originally encountered in suspended animation on the vessel Botany Bay and revived in the 23rd Century.

Having escaped the dead planet where he's been stranded, with his mitts on a starship, a cutthroat band of followers and an all-consuming obsession with exacting terrible revenge on the U.S.S. Enterprise gang — chiefly, of course, former captain James T. Kirk (Shatner). Khan is exactly what's required for camp piratical space fun — a formidable foe who is charismatic, brainy, and ruthlessly fanatical. The necessity for a showdown takes on save-the-universe urgency when Khan snatches up a highly desirable gizmo — the Genesis Device, which reorganises energy into living matter — containing the power of creation or mass destruction. The Genesis Device is well named since it provokes dialogue that, in 1982, would have struck anyone with no taste for speculative science fiction as wincingly pretentious. Today it seems more apt as Kirk and cronies debate the potential for and consequences of science second-guessing God. The real heart of the story is, however, almost unique in the annals of screen sci-fi. It's about getting old.

The most elegiac of the big screen Treks, the adventure celebrates comradeship above all the other fundamentals and imperatives of the Trek ethos (like courage, curiosity and cultural imperialism). And it's a tale told with considerable warmth and humour, some spiffing explosions and a multiple-hanky act of self-sacrifice to round things off. At the beginning the once irrepressible Kirk's birthday (which one it is we aren't told, but the big five-o seems likely) brings on morose reflection. The former intergalactic babehound says "Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young," considers the paths not taken (unaware that an old flame and his hitherto unknown, full grown son are about to be sprung on him) and is passively resigned to an assignment commanding a computer console in place of his "first, best destiny" — command of a starship.

Spock (Nimoy) gives him an ancient copy of A Tale Of Two Cities. Bones (Kelley) gives him a pair of antique spectacles for his middle-age myopia, so he can read it, which comes in handy when he misquotes Sydney Carton in the eventual denouement. A simple training cruise for Starfleet cadets (including a debuting Kirstie Alley as Vulcan smarty-pants Saavik) is tiresomely routine and seems set to be Kirk's last mission. Then Khan rears his vengeful head — yippee! — forcing Kirk to boldly go once more.

The point is, he learns, there are still big challenges: "I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death, and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing." That understood, the adventure of life goes on, age, a crazed villain and a warp drive engine on the blink be damned. As is the case in the best of the classic Trek screen adventures (let's hear it for IV and VI, both co-written by Meyer) Jack B. Soward's script is witty and literate, the crew are on top self-mocking form and there are neat references to Dickens and Melville. But Wrath Of Khan is capped by a daring shocker: killing a beloved character (or at least so fans believed until Star Trek III) to press home such weighty Trekian sentiments as "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

What haven't worn as well are the disastrous fashion statements: striped bell-bottom uniform trews tucked into boots and those absurd Santa Claus tunics. And then, of course, there's the trademark dodgy coiffures. Still, it's a far, far better thing they do than they have ever done when they can save civilisation as we know it even on a bad hair day.

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Star Trek Part Two: The Enterprise Saves JFK. Or at least that’s what it would’ve been called had the late Gene Rodenberry had his way. Thankfully, Paramount rejected the concept and producer Harve Bennett brought us a film that, for many Trek fans has yet to be bettered – Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan . After the long slow, crawl that was The Motion Picture , some might say, that from a critical sense, Star Trek was lucky to get a sequel. As bad as TMP was, it made money. And money talks, so the inevitable sequel was born.

Serving as a both a warning to the dangers of genetic engineering and follow up to The Original Series episode, Space Seed (and no, that episode wasn’t about GM crops) The Wrath Of Khan (or TWOK as I’ll call it) is a great action packed movie, with some real emotional kick behind it. Opening with an unfamiliar face in the centre seat, the Enterprise is on a mission near the Klingon neutral zone when an emergency signal has the ship trying to rescue a stranded vessel, The Kobayahsi Maru, when it’s suddenly outnumbered and out-gunned by three Klingon warships. The battle is soon over, and with the bridge crew laying either dead or injured, all seems lost.

Thankfully then this isn’t the Enterprise, but Starfleet training simulator. Chekov meanwhile, has transferred to a new Starship, and is looking for a suitable planet to launch the ‘Genesis Device’, a new tool allowing for the rapid colonisation of uninhabitable worlds. While on the planet, Chekov and his captain, find Khan, desperate for vengeance and in a scene that instilled a life-long fear of earwigs in me, soon has control of Chekov, Captain Terrell and their ship.

Kirk is celebrating his birthday, and is starting to feel his age, a somewhat misunderstood gift from Spock further darkening his mood: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Message, Spock?” McCoy’s visit to the Captain allows DeForest Kelley a chance to shine, and underlines the strength of the Kirk/McCoy friendship. McCoy is his oldest friend and sometimes it takes those closest to you to tell you what you already knew.

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The Enterprise launches with little more than a ‘boat full of children’ as Kirk puts it, on a routine training cruise, when he receives a call from an old flame, Dr Carol Marcus, asking why he gave the order to take Genesis. The message is cut off, and in rushing to his friends’ aid, he’s thrown straight into a vicious battle with a waiting Khan.

For the first time I can recall in Star Trek , our favourite captain (Kirk /Picard/ Sisko / Janeway /Archer debate aside) is caught out, and Khan gets the upper hand, the Enterprise is badly damaged, limping to space station Regula I, only to find it deserted.

Kirk, Saavik and McCoy find Dr Marcus and her team safe and well inside Regula, where we learn just how powerful the Genesis device is, and that Kirk has a son. Khan’s at it again though, and has used Kirk to lead him to Genesis, and now finally has the chance to kill the great man, except Terrell and Chekov can’t do it, and Terrell takes his own life, and Khan steals Genesis.

One of the key themes in the film is Kirk’s refusal to believe in the no-win scenario, and when he explains his solution to the Kobayahsi Maru to Saavik, it reinforces Kirk as a hero, as a man who will not allow himself to be beaten. Returning to the Enterprise the crew have precious little time to repair their wounded vessel as the film nears its climactic battle, as Reliant and Enterprise face off in the Mutara Nebula.

The ships look fantastic in the eerie purples and blues of the nebula, creating a heightened sense of tension, aping the submarine combat of the likes of Das Boot , and further emphasising the nautical feel of the picture, all brilliantly punctuated by James Horner’s excellent score.

Kirk, ever the master tactician, has Khan on the ropes, and like Kirk, he too refuses to be beaten. Knowing the Enterprise is near crippled, Khan sets the Genesis device to detonate in a last effort to avenge himself against Kirk and his crew. For the first time in his illustrious career, the captain of the Enterprise finally finds himself in the no-win scenario. In the heat of the battle, no-one notices Spock leave the bridge, and once in Engineering, sacrifices himself. Restarting the ships engines he saves the ship and his friends (good job they didn’t hit a wormhole like in The Motion Picture, huh? That would’ve been embarrassing) and Kirk finally has to face death.

From the ashes of the death of one of his closest friends, Kirk is reborn, and sees that his life is far from over, and despite the death of one of the series most famous characters, the film ends on a high, with what Star Trek is all about: hope and optimism for the future.

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So what is it that makes TWOK such a stand out entry in the franchise? Well, for one, it’s the performances delivered by the three main leads. Within the first ten minutes of the film we have everything that makes Star Trek great, namely the three central characters being brought right to the fore. The scene with Kirk and McCoy on Kirk’s birthday is superb. Kirk is struggling to deal with the fact that his youth is behind him, and he is no longer in command of his beloved USS Enterprise, with the pride of Starfleet being reduced to little more than a training vessel. Kirk feels old, and that like his ship, his best years are behind him.

McCoy, as always, is the voice of Kirk’s passion and emotions, and tells the Captain what he already knew: get back the ship. The actors are given some great scenes to work with, and director Nicholas Meyer gets a subtle, thoughtful performance from Shatner and it works brilliantly.

Without a doubt, the quality of TWOK speaks for itself, despite Meyer having never seen an episode of the original series, he and producer Harve Bennet had a much better feel for the source material. Meyer always described Kirk as Hornblower in space, and he’s right. These starships are the naval ships of the 18th and 19th century, transposed through time and space to the 23rd century. This was a theme Meyer explored further in his second Trek feature film, The Undiscovered Country (which was this film’s original title).

The small details in this film really make all the difference: Kirk being piped aboard the Enterprise, the crew inspection, all the little details missing from TMP . TWOK fleshes out the Trek universe into a living, breathing world. The interaction between Kirk, Spock and McCoy is first rate, these are the characters we loved on TV, they’re right at the heart of the story, as they should be, and not at the expense of the still excellent special effects.

Add in a very strong storyline with a broad appeal, tackling very human motivations, such as Khan seeking revenge, the idea of growing old and dealing with death, rather than the typical Trek /sci-fi fare of time travel, aliens, robots etc. and you’ve got the perfect recipe for success.

If you’ve not seen it, I can recommend it whole heartedly, a cracking piece of action cinema, with a truly great performance from William Shatner, pitched against a classic bad guy in the late Ricardo Montalban. What more could you want from a movie, eh? My only regret is having never seen it on the big screen!

Adam Sloman

'Discovery's Elias Toufexis Could Be 'Star Trek's Next Jeffrey Combs

Toufexis and Eve Harlow breakdown their Breen backstory and call the 'Discovery' set the best they've ever worked on.

The Big Picture

• Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5, "Mirrors," delves into Moll and L'ak's backstory, revealing their love and the price on their heads.
• Stars Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis discuss fleshing out their romance, joining the sci-fi series for its final season, and L'ak's connection to the Breen.
• The duo also praises the Star Trek: Discovery cast and crew for the warm and welcoming atmosphere, with Sonequa Martin-Green leading the way as a fantastic number one.

A few weeks ago, Star Trek: Discovery kicked off the series' final season with a dazzling new mystery and a pair of wildly compelling antagonists. Seemingly out to cash in on the greatest treasure the galaxy has to offer, lovers Moll ( Eve Harlow ) and L'ak ( Elias Toufexis ) have been neck-and-neck with Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin-Green ) and her crew as they hunt for clues . This week's episode "Mirrors," sees Burnham catch up with the two as she and Book ( David Ajala ) corner them on an abandoned ISS Enterprise from the Mirror universe.

As the two couples are made to face each other, we also get a glimpse into Moll and L'ak's backstory. Not only do we learn how they fell in love, but we also come to understand why they're on the run — L'ak is a Breen and in their attempt to run away together the duo killed a pair of guards. Now the warlike race has a price on their heads.

Ahead of the episode, I sat down with Harlow and Toufexis to talk about the big reveals in "Mirrors," the complex relationship between their characters, and what they're taking away from their time on Discovery . During our conversation, we also spoke about their personal experiences with Star Trek , when Toufexis learned he would be playing a Breen, and which episodes of Season 5 are their favorites.

Star Trek: Discovery

Taking place almost a decade before Captain Kirk's Enterprise, the USS Discovery charts a course to uncover new worlds and life forms.

Both Harlow and Toufexis have a fair share of sci-fi credits to their names with Harlow having made waves on shows like The 100 and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. while Toufexis appeared in the smash hit series The Expanse as well as having voiced characters in a truly impressive number of video games. When asked what it was like to go from their sci-fi roots to arguably the biggest sci-fi series of all time, Harlow admitted that she'd actually "never seen Star Trek before." She went on to explain, "to me, I was like, 'Oh, cool, another job. Oh, cool, I get to be in space!'"

Meanwhile, Toufexis was a huge Star Trek fan. "And Elias was like, 'No, you don't understand. This is Star Trek .' Even in the sides for the audition, I remember the word “Klingon” being in there, and I'm like, “Wait, how do I pronounce this? What is this?” And on set it was like, “What's a Tribbler?” Harlow joked. "Then Elias was like, 'Okay, let me send you a YouTube video.' So I think for me it was just like, 'Oh, cool. This is fun. This is nice,' and then being told the importance of it by my co-star," she laughed.

For Toufexis, the role was a dream come true. He explained:

"It was great for me. I love sci-fi, and I was happy to do a lot of sci-fi before Star Trek, but yeah, I'm a giant Star Trek fan. Accepting the role was a no-brainer, and I was very, very happy and geeked out every day on set. I would get mad at people who worked on the show who didn't know the stuff that I knew. Not Eve. I would never get mad at Eve."

As actors, both Harlow and Toufexis know the struggle of auditioning over and over for until something sticks. He said, "as an actor, you audition for everything, and you take what sticks, right? That's the nature of the beast." He went on, calling Discovery a career highlight. "So it just happened to be that I have done a lot of sci-fi stuff in my career, so Star Trek is kind of the peak sci-fi . So, it's all downhill from here," he laughed. However, as any good Star Trek fan knows, playing one character is not always the end of the line for an actor in the series. I joked that Toufexis could return on another series in the future, following in the footsteps of actors like Jeffrey Combs and Suzie Plakson , to which he heartily agreed, "I'll play, like, 10 characters."

'Star Trek: Discovery's Moll and L'ak Are Hopelessly Devoted to Each Other

Shortly after we meet these two in the first episode of Season 5 , it becomes very clear that L'ak would do anything to protect Moll, to the point of taking out excessive violence on anyone who threatens her. When asked if that defensive nature was a result of their nature or inherent in them as individuals Toufexis explained, "I think it's inherent in them, but they bring it out of each other. It's a part of their character."

He went on to explain that L'ak was already looking for a way out of his life as a high-ranking Breen when he fell in love with Moll. He said, "I don't know if he was looking for love, but he found it, and then that brought out the guardian in him." He went on to say that one thing he loved about the fifth episode is that, in learning their history, we see that Moll and L'ak are more equals than it seemed in the first four episodes.

"It looks like he's almost her bodyguard, but when they're alone, you see it's not really the case. They're on absolutely equal footing, and he defers to her a lot. He's just protective of her, but she is of him, and that's their love." He went on to explain, " My favorite thing about these characters is their love for each other. It's rare in sci-fi that you have antagonists that have a genuinely good reason to do what they're doing, that I think people would relate to their love and passion for each other and freedom. That's it. We're not bad guys. We just want you to leave us the hell alone." He points out that in this episode, Moll admits they never would have made an enemy out of the Discovery crew if they'd just been left alone, "But you keep on us, and we’re gonna defend ourselves.”

Meanwhile, Harlow explained that the complete devotion Moll and L'ak have for each other is what makes them relatable. She said:

"I do think it's inherent to their nature, and I think that that's what makes them likable, is that there's the love and loyalty there, and they're the first beings in each other's lives that have been, like, he's proven to me that he's worth the love, he's worth the loyalty. Literally, everybody else has either died or betrayed, left. All that stuff. This one being has shown me that it's like, 'No, this is actually where I can store my loyalty, love in this being, and I'm gonna hold on to this being no matter what.' "

With this episode being called "Mirrors," not only for the time spent on a Mirror Universe ship, but for the relationships within, as Moll and L'ak serve as a foil to Book and Burnham. I asked the pair if they felt like their characters recognized themselves in their counterparts. For Toufexis, Book and Burnham are barely even on his radar. He said, "At least as an actor, I never even considered that. I was just like, 'Nah, I don't care about them.' He's very one-track-minded." He then laid out L'ak's priorities, saying:

"At least for me, the way I played it was, 'I just want Moll, and I want you to leave us alone. And if this tech, whatever it is that we may not understand, or even if they understand its power, whatever this tech is, if it could grant us freedom and to be left alone and to just go live our lives in love together, that's all that matters.' So I don't think they're looking and going, 'Oh, they're a lot like us, those two.'"

Meanwhile, Harlow agreed, comparing their characters to "caged animals." She said: "Everyone else are [our] oppressors, and so I don't care what's happening out there. I don't care how similar it is, because ultimately they have the key to the door to freedom, and they're holding here. It’s like, 'Fuck yeah!'"

Elias Toufexis Learned He Was Playing a Breen While Getting His Prosthetics for 'Star Trek: Discovery'

While the Breen have existed since the 90s, having first appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , we know very little about their species. Most notably, we don't know what they look like under their helmets — at least we didn't until this episode. As a fan of the franchise, I had to ask Toufexis if he knew he would be playing a Breen when he first got the role or if he found out when he read the script. He revealed that he actually found out while getting his prosthetics made. But before telling the full story of how he found out L'ak was a Breen, Toufexis took a brief detour to joke about another vast disparity between his Star Trek experience and Harlow's.

He said: "This is a funny story we haven’t told yet. When I auditioned, I knew I was gonna be in makeup because I had already been on the show in the third episode. I played one of the prisoners that's on the show, on Discovery , so I knew I couldn't play with my own face again. I knew I'd be in prosthetics. And I remember, this is like a side thing, but I remember calling Eve and talking about working together, and I said, 'So what's your makeup process?' She's like, 'I don't have any makeup. I don’t have any prosthetics.' 'What? You mean I have to go through five hours of hair and makeup…?'" Harlow chimed in confirming the call, "You were like, 'No, no, no, like prosthetics.' I’m like, 'Yeah, no. Nothing.' And he's like, 'Wait, are you sure?' [Laughs] I’m like, 'I don’t know how to break it to you, but no.'"

He joked that he was "hoping we were both gonna have 2:30 a.m. calls and all that kind of stuff," before diving into how he learned he'd be playing a Breen. He explained:

"But when I found out that he was a Breen was when I went to do the first step of the prosthetics. Being a giant Star Trek geek, I said, 'Can you show me what I'm gonna look like?' Because they’re doing that thing, the plaster mold, where you have to sit there in 20 minutes and try not to have a panic attack. But at that session, I said, 'Do you have any art of what he's gonna look like?' And they showed me, and I said, 'Do you know what race he is?' Because I think I had heard that he was a new race, or an unseen race, or something like that. And they said, 'Yeah, he's a Breen.' I was like, 'Wait, Breen? They don’t take off their helmets.' My geek mind starts going. Then they're like, 'Yeah, you're gonna be the first time that this race is revealed in Star Trek,' and that really got me going. I was like, 'Oh, okay! Let's plaster me up. Let's do this.' And somehow I got through it. But yeah, I was really excited to find that out. Especially [because] Deep Space Nine to me is, like, I love Deep Space Nine . I know the Breen they talk about in TNG a little bit, but Deep Space Nine to me is, like, one of my favorite shows ever, not just Star Treks shows. So, the fact that I was gonna be involved in that. We kind of delve into Deep Space Nine , so I was super happy."

Moll and L'ak Aren't Villains — They're Just Antagonists

In "Mirrors," Moll and L'ak become much more fleshed-out characters as we get a glimpse into their history with each other. Much like the revelation with the Breen, I had to ask Harlow and Toufexis if they had made up any backstory for their characters prior to learning the roots of their love story when they got the script for this episode. Harlow explained that they really only fleshed out the basics like how long they'd been together. She pointed out that sometimes if you make up a backstory for your character it can get entirely undone by the narrative. She said: "The thing is, you could create a backstory, and then you get the next episode and it’s like, 'Ha, joke’s on you. Totally wrong. Everything that we thought…' So, at least this is the way that I work, it's like, 'Okay, what are the stakes? This person is my everything.' That’s just how I’m gonna play it. "

"In terms of the flashback, I mean, it was fun," she grinned. "This might sound really vain, but looks-wise, what did she look like back then? I’ve just got to shout out to the hair and makeup and costume team. Freaking amazing. Such talented people, and also so collaborative, and talking about all this, and being excited about it as well. I think this is what was really cool about the show. Literally every single person is so excited about what they do. Like the props people, they're like, 'This is so awesome,' and then you're like, 'Yes! This is so awesome.'"

Despite not being a Star Trek fan before joining the franchise, Harlow explained that she couldn't help but fall in love with the whole team. "So even though, again, I did not know Star Trek , you can't help it. It's infectious when you're surrounded by that energy, and so it's like, 'Oh, cool. We get to explore our characters’ backgrounds and be in this Breen world.'" She went on to say, "seeing the sets is insane. That screen, the wall, is incredible. You step into the space and you're like, 'Whoa, people created all of this and I get to be a part of it? Incredible.'"

Toufexis was thrilled to get an episode so heavily dedicated to Moll and L'ak's motivations. Having played his fair share of TV baddies , he noted that this is the first time he's gotten to play out the why of what his character is doing himself. He told me:

"The backstory was the best part for me because, I've said this before, but I play a lot of bad guys on TV, and very often it's other characters that are just explaining why my character is doing what he's doing, or make a line thrown here or there, like this is what happened to me, so this is why I'm doing this. Whereas with L’ak, I got to play it. I got to go back and play how he got to where he is, and the great thing is it's justified. What I hope is that the people who watch Episode 5, when they rewatch, they go, 'Oh, yeah, everything they're doing they have a right to do. They're not bad. They're just the antagonists.' I don't mind if they call us villains for promotional purposes, but I’m kind of like, 'They're not villains.'"

Harlow chimed in saying, "They have hearts of gold, okay?" To which Toufexis doubled down on Moll and L'ak's desire to just be left alone.

Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis Reveal Their Favorite Episodes of 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 5

Again, as a pair of Trekkies, I had to ask Toufexis about the incredible experience of getting to actually spend time on the bridge of the Enterprise in this episode. Naturally, he was delighted. He told Collider:

"Well, you can imagine. I've already said I'm a super nerd. And also, The Original Series , that's what I watched growing up . I'm not that old, my dad had them all on tape — so I'm old, but I'm not that old. My dad had them all on tape in the ‘90s, so I watched them over and over and over again, and the movies, especially. So, for me, that was my introduction to Star Trek was the Kirk Enterprise, right? Even though I know this is not the Kirk Enterprise, but Kirk's on it. So being on that ship, I know story-wise it was the ISS Enterprise, but I'm still like, 'This is the Enterprise. I don't care what decals they put over this. I'm sitting on the Enterprise.' I went and took secret pictures of me on the bridge and stuff like that. I was just freaking out, man. I was like, 'This is like the coolest thing.' How can you not freak out being a fan of something and then suddenly getting paid to be there? It's pretty cool."

While she didn't have any personal connection to the sets herself, Harlow understood the importance through Toufexis' experience. "I had him explain all this to me," she laughed. "It's like this is my very own Star Trek Wikipedia sitting next to me. I'm like, 'Okay, cool, noted. Thank you.'"

When asked what their favorite episodes of Discovery Season 5 were, Toufexis decidedly chose the one we all just watched. "Five for me, for sure," he said, though he was sure to give some praise to the rest of the season as well. "There's a couple of episodes coming up that are really good, too, but for me, it's five because of that, the background and getting to play the background. It's kind of their big episode that reveals everything about her. So for me, it's five. " Meanwhile, Harlow set her sights on the series finale, saying, "I forget which episode it is, but it's later, it's either Episode 9 or 10, and I don't think I can say anything. I'm not gonna say anything, but yes, there is one I like."

The 'Star Trek: Discovery' Set Is Unlike Any Other Thanks to Sonequa Martin-Green

While this is Harlow and Toufexis' first season of Discovery, it's also the show's last. As I noted in my review, despite the writers not knowing Season 5 was the end, they somehow managed to bring the story to a full circle moment. And Toufexis felt the exact same way, he said, "You know what, I was just thinking about this morning. I was thinking about how it's somehow in this weird… The TV gods… Because the episodes that were already written before they knew it was gonna be the last season have this feeling of closure in this weird way, right?" He went on to explain, " Like Episode 4, where they go back and see themselves in the past. That is something that you would do when you would be ending a show, or Doug [Jones], Saru, going off and having these new chapters. That's something you would do when you would end the show. So, it’s this weird kind of thing that happened where it almost was fate that it was going to be the last season . I don't know if that is a sad note or something, but it just worked so well."

"So what I hope people take out of it is just this great feeling of closure of this amazing five years that these people have done. I mean, I'm a fan of the show and I've watched every episode. You're sad that it's ending but at the same time it's ending so well that you just kind of hope everybody just really enjoys the ride of this last season and then looks at everything as five years of what this show actually accomplished, which if you step back and look at it is a lot."

While Harlow admitted that she hadn't "thought about it that deeply, but ultimately I just want people to like it." She had nothing but high praise for series star Sonequa Martin-Green , saying: "The first thing, I stepped on set and everyone, Sonequa was so kind and so welcoming. Every single person on that set was wonderful , and one of the first things that I was told was, 'Welcome to the family.' I just want people to like it, to deserve that title of being in the family, if that makes sense."

For these two, working on Discovery was unlike any other set they'd ever worked on. "I would like to piggyback off of that," said Toufexis. "Eve has worked a lot, I’ve worked a lot, and this is one of the best sets you could work on. From Sonequa and down to the crew, to Michelle [Paradise] and Tunde [Osunsanmi], and all those guys, Alex Kurtzman. You just end up going like, 'All these people are nice.'"

The vibes on set were amazing from the start, to the point that Harlow could hardly believe it to be true, certain that at some point the magic would wear off. However, the warm, familiar atmosphere never faded. She explained:

"When I started, I was like, 'There is no way that this lasts for six months. There's no way.' Because people get stressed. It's just like being on sets — it's chaotic, there’s so many people. And, oh my god, until the very end people were so kind. I feel like a fangirl when I talk about it, and I feel like I've talked about it so much, but it's just because it's lasted, and it just shows what a set can be like. We had this thing, crew appreciation, which is like every single day, a different crew member would be clapped for, and throughout the day, if you saw this crewmember, you could just start clapping for them. So that means that by the time we finished filming, everybody knows everybody's names and what they do and has an appreciation for everybody's job. I've never seen that on any set. And it didn't get in the way of us finishing days. I know that some people are like, 'Oh, it takes time to do this care and appreciation.' Yes, it takes time. It’s, like, 30 seconds, and it lifts everybody's spirits. Anyway, yeah, it's great."

Toufexis confirmed that the source of those good vibes without a doubt comes back to their fearless leader. "It's Sonequa’s set," he said. "Sonequa was the number one, and she's the best number one I've ever worked with. Hands down. Just [the best] of the whole show. She's amazing. I could never say enough good about Sonequa." And Harlow couldn't help but agree: "Every single time I see her, I’m like, 'Sonequa, I love you so much!' I know I'm gushing again for the 50th time, but yes."

"Mirrors" is available to stream now on Paramount+ . New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery hit the platform every Thursday. Stay tuned at Collider for more.

Star Trek: Discovery Finally Gave Us A Closer Look At The Franchise's Most Mysterious Villain

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Discovery."

"Star Trek" might represent an idealistic vision of a bolder and brighter future, but the last few seasons of "Discovery" have proven that there will always be bad guys with a penchant for muddying up those ambitions in unexpected ways -- even in the 32nd Century. While the Borg, Romulans, and the warlord Khan often have a stranglehold on the title of "Best 'Trek' villains," one alien species in particular has remained shrouded in mystery for decades. First mentioned in foreboding whispers in "The Next Generation" and finally seen in the flesh (well, so to speak) in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," the Breen have played a significant role throughout the franchise in the years since ... yet Trekkies still had to wait until now to actually see what lies underneath their distinctive helmets.

The advantage of never showing us a Breen's face, as it turns out, is that "Discovery" was able to hide one in plain sight all along.

So far, the addition of scavengers Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis) has felt like a shoe waiting to drop. The close-knit pair continue to frustrate Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the rest of the Discovery crew (nowhere more dramatically than in last week's time-traveling bottle episode ), remaining one step ahead of our heroes in their quest to recover whatever Progenitor technological treasure hides at the end of this galaxy-spanning rainbow. About midway through episode 5, titled "Mirrors," the writers unleashed their big twist. L'ak, thus far considered an unknown type of extraterrestrial, actually reveals himself as a Breen. Or, rather, an emotional Moll lets this information slip by accident during a particularly fraught moment. In the process, "Trek" finally unmasked its most enigmatic aliens.

Read more: Every Star Trek Show And Movie In Chronological Order

Putting On A Brave Face (Or Two)

In the span of one episode, "Discovery" officially made "Star Trek" history.

Long treated as a mystery that left everything up to our own imaginations, the Breen reveal puts a specific face to what had previously only been a name ... actually, make that two faces. While Moll and L'ak come to a tense faceoff with Burnham and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) on board the mirror-universe version of the USS Enterprise while trapped in multidimensional space (it's a long story), the writers treat this as the perfect opportunity to delve into the scavengers' shared past. In a series of flashbacks, we find out that L'ak was part of the Breen royal family and disgraced by his powerful Primarch uncle. Hoping to earn his way back to his people's good graces, all his plans are upended by a torrid romance with then-courier Moll. With their backs against the wall and nowhere else to turn, the lovers choose their own path altogether and, along the way, L'ak reveals his most private aspect of himself: his Breen face.

Of course, the episode adds another twist and introduces the concept of the Breen having two  faces -- a solid, corporeal form they can present to others if they so choose, and a more translucent one. (Really, it can only be described as  squishier. ) In fact, this creepy and altogether unique visage symbolizes a much more meaningful difference, as we learn when L'ak's uncle calls his chosen face an "insult to your heritage." Apparently, most Breen have moved beyond this "weak" form and consider this some sort of societal faux pas. In just a few minutes, we discover more about Breen culture than we've ever known before.

New episodes of "Star Trek: Discovery" stream every Thursday on Paramount+.

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Three Wise Men and a Baby Sequel Set at Hallmark Channel

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A trio of Hallmark Channel leading men is reteaming for a sequel to their 2022 hit movie Three Wise Men and a Baby .

Paul Campbell , Tyler Hynes and Andrew Walker will reprise their roles as the Brenner brothers in the followup Three Wiser Men and a Boy , airing later this year as part of the network’s 15th annual Countdown to Christmas programming event. Also returning is Margaret Colin ( Gossip Girl ) as the brothers’ mother.

The trio also find themselves “meeting their mom Barbara’s (Colin) new boyfriend and the brothers grapple with their own feelings about this relationship. In true Brenner brother fashion, they are all in for a Christmas they will never forget.”

Three Wiser Men and a Boy was penned by Campbell and Kimberley Sustad, who co-wrote the first movie, and Russell Hainline.

“Viewers and critics alike fell for the charms of Paul, Tyler and Andrew as the Brenner brothers in  Three Wise Men and a Baby ,” Jennifer Kramer, Hallmark Media’s Vice President of Development, said in a statement. “The one resounding thing we heard from them was that they wanted more. We are excited to deliver and then some with a story that is filled with more humor and, most importantly, more heart.”

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Me trying not to scream in Kohls.

Absolutely looking forward to the sequel. So enjoyed the first one especially the dance scene with all three brothers. Hilarious! And yet, the movie dealt with a serious subject. Many new mothers are very overwhelmed and extremely fatigued. So the new one will be fun to see how everyone has evolved.

As long as there’s another dance sequence, I’m in!

This is such great news. I have watched the movie many times, and have the dance part cued on my pvr . I watch that part pretty well every week. It just makes me happy. I will await the sequel! Thank you.

Very excited about the sequel….loved the dance number. Hope there is more in the sequel

Loved the first one. Excited for the sequel!

Very excited to see the movie, can’t wait love all hallmark movies

Three fantastic and a Wonderful!!! Definitely must see The two writers are great in their collaborations on a high to see!

Great! I love those guys!

Ya know, I love the cast, but the first one wasn’t as great as I thought it would be. I know I’m in the minority, but just thought it could have been better & funnier. Hope this one is better than the first. Again, love the cast though!

The sequel will be fun, but Hallmark is missing out on a sequel that could be super good. How about “Picture a Perfect Christmas wedding” with Jon Cor and Merritt Patterson? or, Picture a Perfect Christmas Baby” same actors just a few years on so the nephew Troy can be realistic as an older kid. That original movie was so kind and characters so likable.. a sequel would be super. Loved it and really enjoyed the actors. Also, anything with Kimberly Sustad and Paul Campbell is a must-see.

Merritt went to GAC.

this was the best Hallmark movie so far

Can’t wait!!

Yes! I loved the first one. I like Andrew, Paul and Tyler. I just wish they would quit utting Tyler hynes in movies that are so goofy with leading women that look young enough to be his daughter!

Tyler is only 37. As opposed to the other two guy in mid 40’s. How old are the leading women he’s been cast with?

Definitely looking forward to it. I am sure it will be a big hit for the Christmas season. Three of my favourite actors!!

Looking forward to seeing the movie

Can’t wait!!!

Very excited. It was the best so funny and it made christmas when it was released. Thanks for being such great actor’s.

I hope Lifetime announces a sequel to their hit Christmas movie – Ladies of the 80’s: A Divas Christmas.

I watched Three Wise Men and a Baby 5 times and laughed just as much the fifth time as the first. Can’t wait to see the sequel. You’ve brought together the best cast. Would like to see a little more of Kimberly, too. Thanks for this great endeavor.

I am looking forward to the sequel Three Wiser Men and a Boy.

I can’t wait to see the new movie Yall three is truly amazing love you so excited

Looking forward to seeing the movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

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