On this day in 1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released in theaters.

[47of74]

KHANNNNNNNNN!

[yallerdawg]

1. Full circle!

TV show to movies to movies about TV show characters to new TV shows to movie reboots to...

[hunter]

2. I like the old optimistic Star Trek. Judging by the last movies, I'm prepared to be disappointed.

Some of the fan-produced movies are good. That's the standard I'm holding this to.

I don't want to see early twenty first century characters dealing with early 21st century problems in a Star Trek universe.

[47of74]

4. Yeah they don't make Star Trek movies like this anymore.

Although the past couple movies have shown some improvement over the Next Generation films.

[GaYellowDawg]

5. Exactly! The original series never dealt with issues of the day.

[hunter]

6. That's not what I said.

The Star Trek characters were supposed to represent humanity's better future. The humans of the Star Trek universe were not racist, the aliens were. These aliens, of course, represented the human twentieth century.

The Original Star Trek didn't quite pull it off, there were no openly LGBT characters and some of the women wore uniforms that made them look like 'sixties airline stewardesses, but they did remarkably well for the time.

[Boomerproud]

3. When Spock's casket was released into space and they played Amazing Grace

my BFF sat there in the theatre sobbing. That character really meant so much to so many people.

[47of74]

8. And of course Scotty played the bagpipes.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Saw it as a 5-year-old...

Didn't even know what 'Star Trek' was, mom was standing outside the theater begging me to finally choose something to watch, and I chose this movie basically because I liked the poster...

[mackerel]

9. Wow I totally remember that! I had a good friend who worked

at the local theater and he just died recently of a heart attack. I remember seeing him work there that day and joking with him.