Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
(1982)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Themes
- Sacrifice
- In the second Star Trek movie (released in about 1982-1983), Christological references abound. The crew is faced with certain death as a nuclear reactor begins to leak and must be repaired. Spock enters the room where the reactor is and repairs it, sacrificing himself for the lives of the crew. As he dies, he says to Kirk words to the effect: "It is better for the one to die for the many, or the few." He then recites a line from The Tale of Two Cities (which Kirk has been reading): "It is a far far better thing I do today, than I have ever done before." Spock is "buried" with honors (as the bagpipes play "Amazing Grace")in a capsule that is sent to a planet that is a newly born paradise, where the "Genesis" project has just been detonated, bringing life where none was before. (submitted by Chip Gorman)
- Friendship
- Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.
- Sacrifice
