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   Happy 30th birthday, Wrath of Khan. Thanks for keeping Trek alive.   
       
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   Despite performing relatively well, 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture   
   almost killed the franchise for good. It was too expensive and too inert   
   for Paramount's liking ... but the studio was willing to roll the dice   
   on Gene Roddenberry's creation one more time. And everything was riding   
   on The Wrath of Khan's success.   
   Of course, no one making Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khanâ€"which   
   opened June 4, 1982â€"realized precisely what "everything" would   
   eventually entail. Writer-director Nicholas Meyer and producer Harve   
   Bennettâ€"picking up the slack left after Roddenberry was forced out   
   of the productionâ€"simply wanted to make a good (and cheaper)   
   movie, digging back into the original series' lore to find a worthy   
   villain and a viable conflict. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest   
   Kelley and the rest of the cast just wanted to play the characters they   
   loved.   
   There's no way they could've known that without Star Trek II serving as   
   the film series' high water markâ€"creatively and   
   commerciallyâ€"there never would've been a Star Trek III through VI.   
   There never would've been such popular love for the franchise that it   
   would've made it's way back to TV with Star Trek: The Next Generation.   
   And without The Next Generation, there's no Deep Space Nine, Voyager or   
   Enterprise.   
   In a very real way, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the keystone that   
   makes the entire Star Trek franchise as we know it possible, from the   
   toys to the J.J. Abrams reboot.   
   So, hey, when you're done with your day, why not pour yourself a frosty   
   O'Doul'sâ€"the 21st century equivalent of syntheholâ€"pop in The   
   Wrath of Khan and raise a glass to Ricardo Montalban's preposterously   
   muscled chest and the final frontier.   
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