Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

The reveal of David as Kirk's son is again, kind of on the nose. I like how the movie implies that Jim "gets it" versus being told in a bit of melodrama.

Also, the "dumb bastard" line will come back in a very odd way at the end of the movie.

Also explains how Terrell got the phaser.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one annoyed with Uhura demanding someone contact her WHEN SHE KNEW FULL WELL THE TEAM WAS DOWN THERE ON REGULA I.

Also, a throwaway line that McCoy served with Captain Terrell at one point leads to him asking if Terrell recognizes him.

Damn, he's suave.

The scripts sequence of events is a little scrambled here, but lost in the shuffle is a scene where Khan learns about Genesis. Afterwards we have the Regula 1/Chekov scene, followed by the Regula team talking about escaping, followed by Carol attempting to contact Kirk, then oddly Kirk taking command of the Enterprise THEN asking Spock for command.

There's a bit more in the elevator with Kirk and Saavik. She thanks Kirk for her grade on the Kobayashi Maru test, but doesn't feel she deserves it. Kirk suggests she take it again.

Man, if Roddenberry hated how military Nick Meyer portrayed Starfleet on screen, he must have really hated how military he made them in the script:

There's more to Spock and Saavik's talk in Vulcan, which comes across more as a lesson. Cutting it off at "Nobody's Perfect" though makes it a nice little humour beat.

Ah, the infamous cut of Sulu getting his own command because "Shatner somehow couldn't get the words out." I am surprised, though, to see the Excelsior mentioned in ST:2. I knew he was getting his own command, but didn't realize they were setting up the Excelsior so soon.

Glad they cut this. A little on the nose. And he mentions watching her die several more times after this to bring the point home.

I forgot there was also a cut involving Chekov and Terrell finding a child on Khan's ship before they're ambushed. If you listen carefully in the movie, you can hear Terrell say "but the child..."

After talking with a friend about drafts of The Wrath of Khan, I decided to watch it along side the one shooting script I have for it.

Still lots to mine in here, even if it's not an early draft. I'd forgotten Saavik was originally half Romulan, which is why she has flashes of emotion in the movie:

The bad thing about where I live is that the stove vent blows out into the atrium where you walk into your apartment. My neighbor is making shrimp scampi.

I NOW WANT SHRIMP SCAMPI.