But if I'm over here, jbmd, that means you must be… Oh, oh!

Well, you are exaggerating just a tad. The head in the hull hole (heh) was never shown to be severed and we see Quint getting bitten in his middle but hardly "in half."

Judging from Kirk's horndog cred, I don't think "compatibility" was high on his list of standards. :-)

Thanks, TJ,B. I don't re-watch the eps before coming here, so I forgot that it wasn't a wasteland originally. Likewise to herk rock.

Yeah, I'm always surprised how graphic that phaser disintegration shot is whenever that ep is on. They sure never did that again.

TOS never got a good handle on female characters. That was a symptom of the '60s in general. With some notable exceptions (Edith Keillor of course, and the blind ambassador from the Medusa ep), they were usually dim-witted hotties in coconut shell bras or screaming harridans - e.g., Elan of Troyus and the Turnabout…

Yes, hr, but the planet was otherwise barren. Seemed like he'd be more bored than anything. And propagating new minions to dominate and control takes time. Though I'll grant you that imprisonment would be much more torturous for him. I always got the sense that Starfleet didn't trust him anywhere near them, figuring…

Yes, that one gulp is about the pinnacle of Shat's acting career. Well played.

Don't forget Khan is the result of decades of focused genetic engineering, specifically to breed a warrior. In addition to superior strength, intelligence and endurance, they would also have bred him with increased aggressiveness and self-assuredness (as opposed to the Bene Gesserit who had many of the same qualities…

40 dense endless pages of noooooothing. Didn't help that I had to write a paper on it after.

I really wouldn't call abandoning someone on a near-uninhabitable planet, for all time, a reward - regardless of one's mad skills.

After being forced to read Bartleby in high school, I swore off Melville for good, so the MDick allusions all escaped me.

The worm burrowing into Chekov's ear was definitely the grossest squirmiest oogiest thing I had seen in a movie at the time (till The Thing came out).

If there has to be a choice of a single emblematic ultimate Trek entity then Khan would probably be it. CityOTEOForever might be second, but it lacks all the requisite swashing and buckling.

That was exactly what made the movie such a revelation. It seems so obvious, but when making TMP, the suits at the studio missed what made TOS so much fun. Being on a big screen didn't mean having to up the pomposity and import. "Khan" is exactly like a TOS episode, right down to the continued storyline, and succeeds…

Maybe the silver platter heaped with poop would fly, but definitely not the eating. Cutting off the tongue though, didn't they do that on Cosby?

In the same way that we use the word "mankind" also includes women, I always felt that Kirk was using "human" to indicate all the things that we as humans value most. And Kirk specifically states that Spock's *soul* is human which doesn't contradict that the *man* was Vulcan.

Damned if ya do, damned if ya ain't.

Don't beat yourself up, some of my best friends are Americans.

What is a fallacy is to ignore some pretty persuasive evidence over the last 60+ years. A revolver in your mouth with a single bullet isn't "guaranteed" to blow your head off either.