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'Star Trek II' is pleasant summer escape
By ROSE ROUSSEAU Contributing Reviewer
Avid, happy faces line the aisles. Though the movie has just begun, the audience is already in the throes of excitement. Star Trek sequel has been released.
The scenario is familiar. The Starship Enterprise is in sudden jeopardy. Instead of the usual protagonist, a solitary Vulcan woman is at the helm of the ship. She faces a threat of flashes of exploding equipment. Clearly this inext Vulcan will lose the ship.
AT THE MOMENT of disaster, the walls of the command center part to reveal our hero, a messianic figure, silhouetted against a haze of blue light. Enter Admiral James T. Kirk, assuring us with the suavity of advanced middle age that he is yet the consumate and intrepid prince of the galaxies.
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,"
nicely directed by Nicholas Meyer, relies on visual effects and soilsphil meidrama for its power. Though a step above its predecessor in direction, pace and plot, "Star Trek II" is no heavyweight, philosophically or dramatistically grounded, in a seasonal kind of entertainment—instant release from the summer dolrums.
IN AN EFFORT to find a totally barren planet on which to conduct scientific experiments, a Federation starship inadvertently stumbles upon Khan. Khan, played with slaving maleevence by Ricardo Montalban, is a genetically engineered product of the 20th century who, with his comrades, has been forever exiled to this wasteland for unspeakable crimes.
An ingenious devil, Khan has discovered a use for the scorpion-like creatures that are the planet's only inhabitants. By inserting the creature's slimy offspring into the ears of his enemies, Khan is first able to induce also-
lute mastery through engendered suggestibility and later, madness and nausea
POOR CHEKHOV and his comrade become Khan's victims. Through them, Khan can gain access to Kirk. Revenge is Khan's fierce and single-minded object.
As a birthday gift, Sppock gave Kirk a rare volume of "A Tale of Two Cities." As if the symbolism weren't blantent enough, as the tale progresses, Kirk ponderously drags this book as a prop into every early scene.
There is a good deal of mawkish sentiment in "Star Trek II" amid the bravura action of batting starships. Kirk's old girlfriend reappears as a central figure in the plot. And, in an effort to give the story a little class, screenwriter Jack Soward tossed in the eminently classy Charles Dickens.
IF HIS EVIL counterpart, Khan, is besieged with thoughts of revenge, Kirk is equally obsessed with the realization of his own mortality and failing abilities. When he is tricked by the helpless Chekhov, Kirk, as senior officer, is forced to assume the Enterprise's command. He quickly discards his static intellectualism for the active virility of his old role.
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