Obligatory (4.00 / 2)

http://khaaan.com/

Can we send all the NeoKhans out to Ceti Alph VI?  

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

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by: lord_mike @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 22:37:16 PM CST

truth or consequences (4.00 / 1)

Weirdly, I know Ricardo Montalban solely as a disembodied voice reading recursively looped tourist-info scripts somewhere near the low end of the am radio dial out on the rural highways of New Mexico. I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie or anything.

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by: Chachy @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 23:07:18 PM CST

WHAT? (4.00 / 3)

You never saw Star Trek II?    My god, get thee to a video store and watch... probably the best of the original cast films.  

Kobiashi Moru...

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few....

Project Genesis...

Kirstie Allie as a VULCAN!

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by: yitbos96bb @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 00:00:59 AM CST

[ Parent ]

love that movie (4.00 / 1)

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by: tremayne @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 23:12:32 PM CST

Border Incident... (0.00 / 0)

was some of his finest work.  Check it out.

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by: md @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 23:25:09 PM CST

RIP (4.00 / 2)

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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by: yitbos96bb @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 23:58:52 PM CST

misspellings can be funny (4.00 / 1)

When I hear 'Kahn', I think of some relatively chill middle-aged Jewish guy.  

Donkeylicious

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by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 03:15:32 AM CST

Check out the "Space Seed" episode of Star Trek TOS (4.00 / 3)

He owned that episode....damn fine actor.....and what a great Ahab he played in Wrath of Kahn.....

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by: Taylor @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 05:39:33 AM CST

I wonder (4.00 / 2)

will his coffin will be upholstered with fine Corinthian leather?

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."
-Lawrence Summers

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by: kbuck @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 07:20:22 AM CST

Ricardo (4.00 / 3)

Kahn was one of the best villians ever. Arrogant, superior, vain, condescending... Montalban nailed that role.

He had the best dying line in a movie:

Khan: [quoting from Melville's Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

Another great line, "revenge is a dish that is best served cold" (apparently a Klingon proverb, who knew?)

Loved the comment about the "fine Corinthian leather", kbuck

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by: GreenVTster @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 09:23:07 AM CST

TV news? Bad judgement (0.00 / 0)

The TV news kept referring to Montalban's pedestrian role as the host on "Fantasy Island" without mention The Wrath of Khan.  What fools.  

Khan was a classic.  Fantasy Island is best known for a dwarf saying "de plane,boss, de plane."  There is no comparison.  Thanks to the wonders of film, we'll all know the difference for a long time.

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by: David Kowalski @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 14:04:42 PM CST