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ShatnerKhan 1 \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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As stated at the end of the last post we settled on Star Trek episode \u201cSpace Seed\u201d as our next course.\u00a0 And there it all was!\u00a0 Ricardo Montalban and William Shatner battling to settle the question of who could chew up the scenery faster.\u00a0 Khan proves to be an even more persuasive lady\u2019s man than Kirk.\u00a0 He convinces a lady scientist to turn traitor to the Enterprise and assist Khan in taking over the ship.\u00a0 Of course, the most absurd part of the story is that Kirk provides Khan with the ship\u2019s technical manuals that allow him to figure out how to selectively flood most of the Enterprise with knock out gas.\u00a0 Could there be any logical reason to provide a known megalomaniac with the details of these most sensitive technical secrets of the ship?\u00a0 Of course not. \u00a0While he was at it, he might as well have given Khan his social security number and his bank account PIN.<\/p>\n

There is a great scene near the end where Kirk and Khan are fighting mano a mano.\u00a0 Khan starts out by snatching away Kirk\u2019s phaser and twists it in half with his bare hands.\u00a0 Kirk gets tossed around like a rag doll but at the critical juncture he grabs hold of a solid metal bar and clonks Khan over the head a few times with it and shows that even a super-strong super-genius should go for the quick kill instead of ending up having the tables turned on him like some kind of super villain in a James Bond movie.<\/p>\n

Watching the final scene where Khan and his colony agree to be exiled on a world of their own is of course ironic.\u00a0 We know that in the future the Wrath of Khan is awaiting Kirk and the rest of the crew.\u00a0 This was discussed heatedly.\u00a0 What should have been done.\u00a0 Should Khan have been handed over to a re-education camp.\u00a0 Should Kirk have checked to see if Ceti Alpha was a stable star that would permanently support a colony?\u00a0 Should such dangerous genetically superior individuals have been liquidated, for the safety of all humanity?\u00a0 What, precisely, was rich Corinthian leather?\u00a0 The answers to all of these were debated endlessly and then abandoned because we got hungry again.<\/p>\n

But certain things were agreed on.\u00a0 Kirk and Khan are both hounds and neither Shatner nor Montalban believed in understated performances.\u00a0 And these two things were linked with the fact that this is one of the most popular episodes of the series.\u00a0 Shatner and Montalban are over the top ham actors.\u00a0 The characters they are playing are out of a comic book.\u00a0 But they are fun.\u00a0 They are motivated by the things that men are interested in; women, adventure, honor.\u00a0 This makes them about a trillion times more fun and interesting than Spock or Picard or any of the other \u201cfuturistic\u201d characters.\u00a0 Shatner taking shoulder rolls and bouncing around under pretend Khan pummeling is laughable and sophomoric but it\u2019s still the best thing Star Trek had in this episode.<\/p>\n

So this is the revelation.\u00a0 Kirk is the best part of the show because he provides the only example of a normal man doing normal manly things.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t do them well or convincingly but he\u2019s all there is.\u00a0 So we gave one cheer for James Tiberius Kirk and took some time out to eat some more food.<\/p>\n

You may think that there was an inordinate amount of time taken away from the proceedings of ShatnerKhan to eat junk food.\u00a0 You would be correct.\u00a0 The plain truth is that all the delegates there were taking the opportunity to eat types and amounts of food that their wives would normally prevent.\u00a0 In many ways it was almost as if ShatnerKhan was an excuse to pig out.\u00a0 Once again, you would be correct.\u00a0 But we justified this by pointing out that Shatner himself always looked like he could lose about thirty pounds and we perceived something heroic in men of a certain age throwing caution and wifely warnings to the wind and seizing the day and the Dorito (as it were).<\/p>\n

In the final post we will look at the concluding viewing content and then our final thoughts on ShatnerKhan 1 and the prospects for later editions.<\/p>\n

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ShatnerKhan 1 \u2013 Part 4 \u2013 Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n

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