"There she is..."

In 1982 Trek fans were once again treated to another dose of their favorite sci-fi show, Star Trek II,The Wrath of Kahn. And like every other fan of the show, I had to "boldly go" to the theater to see how this one would fair. End result, I loved it. Where else could one see a spectacular battle between two federation starships.

The jist of the plot was simple. Captain Terrell and First Officer Pavel Chekov of the U.S.S. Reliant accidentally come across the exiled heretic Khan Noonien Singh. Khan, was exiled on Ceti Alpha V by Captain Kirk in the TV episode "Space Seed" and was soon forgotten. Now, of course, there was a legitimate reason why Kirk exiled Khan and his followers on this barren rock. He did, after all, attempt to take over the Enterprise. But ole Cap'n Kirk put a stop to his ill gotten plans. Surprised? Of course not.

But Terrell and Chekov must have gotten their space coordinates from Yahoo Maps, cause they didn't beam down to an uninhabited Ceti Alpha VI, seeing hows it blew up a couple years back. They just happened to park right above Ceti Alpha V. Guess who they all ran into, yeppers, ole demented Khan and the remnants of the S.S. Botany Bay.

Now you would reckon after a shows cancellation and many, many years of raising a group of genetically created mutant people, ole Khan would have learned to forgive and forget. Oh no!!! None the least. He still carried a grudge against Kirk. He was still as pee'd as he was back in 1967 or rather 2367, and more so after he learned that Kirk was now an Admiral. "Admiral Kirk?...Admiral?" Khan, by the way, was played both times by the most excellent actor, Richardo Montalban. Possibly one of his best performances in my opinion. I sure would have hated to have been the one who pee'd him off.

So, long story short, Khan puts weird looking worm/scorpion thingys in Terrell and Checkov's ears. This had the ability of, "making the victim susceptible to..uh..suggestion." He then had his homeys transported to the Reliant and the Reliant's crew were marooned on Ceti Alpha V. He than found out the true reason that the crew of the Reliant even wanted to visit Ceti Alpha V. They were looking for a suitable place to test the Genesis Device. A device for making dead planets into live ones but also could be used as a horrible doomsday weapon.




Hmmm, now we got us a ship and a reason. We need us a doomsday bomb and a way to scare the crap out of everyone. We gotz to get all our ducks sitting pretty in the same pond. Gotz our plan right and tidey, been brewing for eons and eons. Then we need to go make Captain Kirk pay for what he did. Sooooo, we're offff.

The Starship Reliant, a Miranda class research vessel, may not be as big or as glamorous as the Constitution Class starship, Enterprise, but she still has her beauty and elegance. Seriously fine lines and curves. Yep, for a starship, she is rather hot. And about to get hotter.

Khan is still pee'd, as I said earlier, at Kirk for what he did. Now one other thing he is still mad at Kirk for is his wife, who once was a crewman onboard the Enterprise, died early into their exile on the planet. Which he has always blamed Kirk for. Now being the typical male that Khan is, and a typical male who was so totally enamored of his wife, vengeance must be taken.

Ya'll Tired of all this yet? Hope not, there's more and a moral as well.


Khan intercepts the Enterprise and her crew somewhere in space. Not using the same Yahoo maps system that Terrell and Chekov did, he actually found the Enterprise and not the crew from Lost in Space. "This is peculiar." Said Kirk about the approach of the Reliant and her inability to make radio contact with another sister starship. "Of course, we are one big happy fleet." Khan said with a grin, knowing he was gonna surprise Jimmy and blow a whole in his ship. Thus totally messing up Jimmy's day, and everyone else on the Enterprise.


Meanwhile back on the bridge of the U.S.S. Reliant, Khan's slackey, Joachim takes a brief moment to try to get Khan to forget about the past and lets just get the frail out of Dodge.
"We're all with you, sir. But, consider this. We are free. We have a ship, and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha V. You have defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again."
This didn't sit well in Khan's belly. "He task me, he task me and I shall have him. I shall chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antarries Maelstrom and round Perdition's Flames before I give him up!" Sounds rather determined if ya ask me.

Again, long story short (appears I haven't shortened anything actually, good thing blogspot doesn't have commercials). Khan surprises Kirk and really shoots up the Enterprise. Ouch, bunch of folks get killed, sucked into space, burnt really really bad, knocked on the head, slapped on their rumps and such. Kirk surprises Khan while he gets him monologing using the Enterprise to drop the Reliants shields then,,blamo, blamo, now it's the crew of the Reliant who gets burned, beaten and sucked into space.




Both ships hobbled off to lick their wounds and make what repairs that they could. Khan tricked Kirk into going down to the planetoid Regula I and marooned him, thinking the enterprise had limped off to Starfleet Command. Kirk had another plan in mind and later on, the Enterprise picked em all up and off towards the Mutara Nebula they all went. Khan fussing all the way. Feeling cheated of his prey that he has hoped for for so long.

The reason behind heading to the nebula was simple, both ships would be crippled with their sensors and shields, mono e mono. Round and round they went, in and out of the nebula,,fuzzy view screens made it hard to find one another. Kirk would shoot at Khan and Khan would shoot at Kirk, both starships getting the crap blown out of them and making things worse as they went.



Eventually Kirk figured Khan out and sneaked in behind him, locking phasers and photon torpedoes on the Reliant and blamo!! The Reliant starts losing body parts. Eventually Khan decides to get the last lick in. Knowing that the Enterprise can't move real fast from her wounds, he activates the Genesis Device with intents to blow, both the Reliant and Enterprise into smithereens. End result, Khan and the Reliant get blown up. Spock dies, but comes back in the next movie and the Enterprise gets warp drive and escapes in the nick of time as usual.

The moral? Hmm, lets see. It appears that a fine, beautiful ship and many lives were lost simply to revenge a woman. Khan lost all that he had simply to seek revenge on Captain Kirk for the loss of Marla, his beloved wife. He had the doomsday weapon and a starship and could have went anywhere in the galaxy that he wished to go. Live on any planet that he wanted to live on and basically have any other woman he wanted. But he choose sacrifice. He sacrificed all that he had for the love of a woman. Poor waste of a perfectly good starship I suppose, but each to their own.

I guess that a person could look at this any way that they wanted to. I suppose that people or the love of a person is well worth sacrificing the thing that is sacrificed. Possibly not the life of another or the destruction of someone elses property but there are times and certain people, that a sacrifice is acceptable.

Did Khan come out in the end smiling? His lady's honor restored or better yet her life restored? No, he lost all, but felt that all was worth gambling. We each gamble and sacrifice daily. Gambling on our future, our love and our lives.(Ever see me drive?) I think, regardless of what people say or think, there are many times, the end does justify the means. Sometimes the sacrifice and the gamble is well worth taking and unlike Khan and the Reliant, things do turn out rosey and fine. Sometimes we gamble and loose. But many times, the risk is well worth taking if you feel certain that the outcome will be what you have dreamed it would be. My outlook on this fine sci-fi movie? Yea I guess. You decide.

Live long and prosper...

Time of the End

He stands there, just on the rim of time and space. Ancient and wise but yet foolish and unconcerned. Surrounded by so many who proclaim their love and allegiance but yet his hearts feel as if he is all alone.

He never allows himself to be captured, not physically but emotionally and guards the interiors of his domain with fierceness. Infinite wisdom gathered through the ages but never daring to call upon that wisdom. Never allowing that wisdom to guide his life as he uses it to help guide others.

He arrives just long enough to gather our attention, then without warning or provocation, he simply disappears without a trace, never to be heard from again. The length of time that he spends depends upon the moment that he is allocated, or rather has allocated to himself. Time and Space wait for no man and what he seems to be is not what he truly is. Many have tried through the ages to describe him, to understand him to hold him to one belief. But he is who he is and no one truly understands him, not even he himself.

Why oh why does he come into our lives only to leave us? Some say it's the thrill of adventure or possibly the interaction that he has with us fills a void deep with-in his soul if only for a brief period of time.

Time? How does one explain time? Is it just a measure of life or could it be the limited span that he will take with each of us? Time has allowed him to have many companions in his life, sharing moments and adventures with him, thinking we have the rest of our lives to spend this time with him. But then, one day, he is gone. Each and every companion never understanding why they are left behind and no longer needed or included in his life's adventures.

Could it be that he tires of us so easily? Could it be that he has studied us all he needs to and it is once again time to move on? No one knows for sure. All that is really known are the facts and truths and emotions that he hides deep with-in himself, never allowing anyone alien to see his true self. Never letting them inside, fearing the damage that they may do to him. Afraid of primitive emotions that they may awaken inside.

Doubtfully these are the answers or rather the explanations. He holds the key to his own future. Always making choices for his own direction through time that he, himself , is not even aware of the consequences. But to him, each choice unfolds a new adventure in his life and he feels the call for change.

The call for change! Unfortunately, creatures such as he must endure these changes and he alone will suffer if they turn out wrong. Will they? Does he know if they will? Possibly, after all he is suppose to be wise beyond time, age and experience should help him make the decisions that he alone must make. And make them wisely so no harm will ever come to himself, but fate at times, stirs him in wrong directions. "Just another adventure", he tells himself. A lie? He doesn't know.

He is a Timelord, in every sense of the word and meaning. He knows the feel and the pull of the future tugging at his soul and knows that the time is at hand. Time again, time tugging, pulling, knawling at his soul and essence. He can't avoid it, he has tried and failed so many times before. He knows that the future events are inevitible and there is nothing he can do to change them. He has tried and failed, carrying with him the regrets and consequences of the erroneous choices he has made. Why does he do this? Why does he not stop? He is a Timelord and this is all predestined,written in the fabric of time itself.

So when will he once again remove himself in the night from our lives? No one knows, not even the Timelord, until it is embedded in his soul and the urge to move is far to strong to avoid. Soon we suppose, closer than we think, lives will be shaken and hearts will be hurt. The man, the creature, the being that is the Timelord within will move. It cannot be stopped and he knows this. But because he care's, he reviel's none of this to the ones he has grown fond of known as his companions.

Will he regret this? Will he stand alone on his mountain, with the spring breeze blowing his garment as a cape hating the decision that he made? Possibly, but his is the mind that was created around regrets. Simply because he searches for those things humans take for granted. His soul searches for life, and the meaning of it. For beauty that simple poets have yet to experience and write about. A Timelords heart beating loudly in the voids of time and space, searching seemingly an eternity for those of his kind, but finding none. Longing for just a moment to spend with familiar souls, those who are akin to the fiber of his being.

This is why he stays for a moment. This is why he only holds onto us for a brief period of time. This is why we awake out of sleep only to find him gone from our lives. He can't control it, nor would he even know how. All he knows is...someone is out there, someone who can share. Someone who has a kindred spirit with his and he must continue to search for it, long for it, hunger for it. It is inevitability and can not be changed by no one, it has to happen. Events have already been set in motion, now the future will place its mark on time.

.......He is a Timelord, and he knows this.
.........hidden meaning? Only he knows.