Because it's awesome!

Because it's a fantastic movie!

Also it’s a real testament to the power of a well cut trailer.

Because the whole style of the movie is repackaged for a modern audience! Imagine being in 1982, thinking Star Trek could get overshadowed and dismissed by Star Wars fans! This redo slingshots an oldschool fan into the early 80s and makes you feel like nothing that a JJ could do! I fucking hate Discovery having seen it, but the original first six movies are Shakespearean!

Harve Bennett went through ALL the TV series and found 'Space Seed' then brought Kahn back. Thank God, he did. Roddenbury almost destroyed that which he created in the 60's.

He missed the Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan tho

Except for one thing: Spock's death

​@@davincent98 Spolier alert! Huh

@@davincent98 SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

@@GerritDeSmedt i like how he kept the scream silent. Gives a different take on Kirk's expression.

It's a shame hollywood writers don't take exactly what you wrote to heart. Lol

Possibly?

possibly the greatest sci fi movie of all time

Plus, it had the venerable Ricardo Montalban in it.

And Shatner's school of subtle acting.

Eh, I hear that abut "modern" music, too. There's lots of gems...just stop letting other people pick what movies you watch as far as trailers. John Wick was pretty cool in the last ten years, just to name one.

God I am so damn old.

@@rikk319 most new movies just suck.

@@tonyromano6220 Most movies suck, old or new. Rose-colored glasses on the past tend to hide that. I remember how many movies, television shows, and books I watched and read as a kid that I tried again as an adult, and realized how bad they were. There's good stuff around nowadays...you just have to avoid letting the media pick it for you and spend the time to find them yourselves. Too many people go on about how bad modern things are--from reading stuff on the modern internet. The irony is too rich sometimes.

EXACTLY!!

hehe

Same!!!

You are lucky. I have it on VHS. What? It's not broken I won't buy it again.

Marek Gutkowski Don’t you think it’s time you upgraded... to S-VHS? 😉

So much this ^

lol me too ;)

Haha. Me too!

Same!

I just travel back in time like in Star Trek IV and ask for nuclearrrrrr wesssells

No.., I'm not spending the $3.00, I'll wait for the laser disc and watch it on my brand new 50" projection TV.

You misspelt 'one of the best' as Star Trek. It should read 'still one of the best movies ever after 35 years.'

L-1011.....May a dozen rabid tribbles infected with dinevion blood worm diarrhea infest your underwear.

Th... thanks?

Eh it's definitely the worst with the original series cast.

I think it's quite deniable, and I deny it easily. Khan's motivations are completely nonsensical, half of his dialogue is lifted from a book in the public domain, the plot only moves forward because of Kirk's plot-mandated stupidity, a guy who's supposed to be a genetically engineered super genius can't see through obvious subterfuge, etc. The movie is very well made at a technical level, but its script is quite weak. I like TMP best. It is a flawed, but it is the most star trek of all the films, and I'm a sucker for wide shots and grand vistas. As sci-fi it delivers in spades, even if it is a little derivative. I like VI also. I'd rank the original movies thusly: I-VI-IV-V-III-II.

Better late then never

Definitely can't wait

I saw it when it came out, and now I want to see it again! It was one of the better ones from the franchise.

This trailer makes me more excited than Star Trek over the last 10 years.

@@LeeHawkinsPhotowhat about the Picard trailers?

Mister G LOL And man did I really LOL :-) thank you

I never saw it in theaters when it came out. Only ever saw it on tape. Would have liked to have been a part of that audience on opening night.

@@DocMicrowave I was there. Being old has a few advantages.

I literally just laughed out loud!

Already saw it in 1982 but I’m game to go back again.

Very nice! Bien joué!

Jesus. Your comment almost made me spit out my drink.

LOLOL YES!!!

I had to read your comment 3 times before I got it. Brilliant!

And then he realizes he was scammed by a "Khan" artist.

Laz...and some scenes that aren’t in it...

No, not really. There's a huge massive canon-altering event that is not even hinted at.

@@AW-uh2ux I know, right? It does nothing to show Kirk's got a son. ... Whoops. ._.

@@redshirtveteran5688 Yeah that plot point went really far didn't it?

@@Shadowman4710 Eh. As far as 6? "Never forgive them for..." Well, you remember what Kirk's log said, right?

It's way more than a trilogy.

Lol... accurate statement, but VI was pretty solid film too.

@@Lodogg VI was fantastic.

skip ST:V... ST: VI brought real closure to Kirk's story, and accepting his feelings towards Klingons and the death of David.

Terminator 2 Judgment day has entered the chat...

Same. I was about 7 years old 😳😳😳 I couldn’t even handle being near the insects “earwigs” afterwards. Haha

Have they enjoyed it yet?

I think this comment needs a follow up

Please, we need to know

Inquiring minds...

We need answers

I absolutely agree with you. To me, this trailer breathes new life for the movie.

Oh yeah????? Just remember one thing before you say that! Remember.......... "KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Not one or digitally enhanced and it still is awesome

I think Undiscovered Country edges it out but it's definitely between those two movies clearly.

@@kevinbrown4073 With respect. It's funny to point out that this was ONE of the first movies to use cgi. In the Genesis presentation. Live long and prosper.👍😋

Montalban should have had equal billing with Shatner as he practically stole the show. If I were to re-do the opening credits, I would put him right below Shatner on the initial "starring" card. I would also properly credit Judson Scott for Khan's subordinate in the opening sequence somewhere close to Kirsty Alley and Merritt Butrick.

Sci Fi, fantasy, horror and comedy never received the most prestigious awards at the time. Even today there is a lot of ciné-snobbery about dramas and psychological thrillers getting respect that other genres do not. It's deeply unfair, but it's there.

And He Was Perfect In Performance Of Khan

Ya they missed that great line. It is very cold in space.... Kirk!

I do remember that old Klingon proverb.

@@trublgrl actually it's Greek

@@johnkabou Watch the movie.

@@trublgrl I've seen the movie when it came out. I know what it says, that's Kligon. In reality this proverb is greek, that's what I'm saying

I wasn't quite 6 when the third film came out. My brother and I were already fans so naturally we had to see it. Never had the privilege of seeing TWOK until high school. Watched it over fifty times since then and it never gets old.

I was around the same age. I saw it on VHS. I was struck by Spock's concluding " these are the voyages..." I thought that was sublime.

Same except I was 6

I was 12 when I 1st saw this movie, been a trekie sinces. It has the greatest score for a sci movie of all time. Im now 38 and still get goose bumbs during the opening credits.

I remember 6 or 7 year old me feeling sooo bored with Star Trek whenever my dad watched it...which felt almost constant. I remember him watching this on tape when he recorded it from TV. Then at some point I comprehended the whole thing and I couldn’t wait for Saturday at 6 o’clock when the next episode came on. I wanted to be Scotty or Spock someday. Wrath of Khan was the first Star Trek movie I ever saw and had me hooked so hard! It’s still my favorite!!!

Damn right. Still the best Trek movie ever made...and its not even close.

It was the trailer this movie could never have. (At the time)

Nah, it's exciting because it pretty much spoils the entire movie. I prefer the old trailers, they leave you wondering.

I totally agree!

@@Espedals and yet you watched it.

I watch this film every year.

I do binges of almost all of them. I watch Nemesis rarely...like once...

Just reminds me of how much better the film is compared to the crap made today.

Jeb Johnston not as bad as Beyond 😃

and again and again ....

Vulgar that’s because JJ Abrams doesn’t get it. He doesn’t get why Kirk’s off his game when he was always on every other time. He doesn’t get why Kirk is so lost without Spock. He doesn’t get why the death scene at the end was so completely earned. He doesn’t get that the Kobayashi Maru test wasn’t a punchline. He doesn’t understand the purpose of anything unless it adds visual interest or intense action. He doesn’t understand how to plot a film, he only knows how to set up mystery boxes that never get opened.

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto there is a KZfaq video called the Critical Drinker. He touches on all of these points. It is a great channel.

@@Stephengirty I love that channel! I'll look for it... **in my best Scottish accent** Go away now!

Shatner was actually a good actor once. That's why.

@@Retnoob You should check him out in Bleep My Dad Says. It only went one season, but it was hilarious and he was great in it 😁

Right?!?! I have nearly every word and every beat of the movie memorized, and I still ended up watching it three more times after watching the trailer.

@@ericaj9822 Definitely is one on the list of must see movies of all time. So cool to see people that love this film as much as I do even after all these years. Right on Erica J !!!!! R E S P E C T

It would have made a billion dollars.

and then she quit smoking and look what happened to her. :-)

Maybe she should start smoking again and die of cancer - one less Scientology fucktard less.

Now she is a large smoked ham.

AussieBlokeGordo ..she became a whale of a woman now...she ate too many tribbles!

What was that from "Moby Dick" again? "There she blows!" 🤔

The original trailer blew people away. Consider how dull the original motion Picture was. People didn't know they were hungry for Wrath of Khan, until they saw the trailer, and then, they knew kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLV5jMSDx5y8oIU.html

@@kpobuibo Well, imagine seeing This trailer, say around Christmas time 1981 in a theatre during previews.

Not really. This is top notch for ''effect'' but storywise it tells very little and visually shows too much. The old trailer was all about the story and the characters, not the effects (and it was awesome at the time). Different times, different viewers, different styles. Still, this is pretty good work, proving that when tailored to the target audience, trailers can be effective. Hence why we were lured these recent years to watch very badly made movies just because they were well promoted and flashy. looking at you Abrams Trek and Disney Star Wars trilogy.

@@odojang Spot on. When the trailer is better than the movies they put out now......

@@odojang gene siskel once said that the movie Armageddon was a "2 hour trailer from a movie that was never made."

Ya, how did this happen? Trailers used to be enjoyable.

Original tagline: For some it was their first mission. For many it will be their last.

well 1981. This did say NEXT SUMMER.

Yesssssssssss. They’d have gone NUTS!

@@davidellismartin9619 you just couldn't have done this in 1981 technology just wasn't there for the work involved to do this you look at how quick cut everything is now versus how linear everything was in 1981. I look back at some of the stuff that I did on tape in 1991 vs today and the difference is incredible I mean you actually had to physically cut and splice and mix in real time and sometimes it took three sets of hands and 38 takes to just do a minute

@@hankkingsley2976 excellent point, Hank.

I watched this movie in theaters as a kid in 1982. Still one of my greatest memories.

Will u marry me? I with ya. I loved everyone of those films. I mean Khan was the best but for me all of them were special in their own way.

Just a week? It takes a week just to get through Robert Wise's plodding abomination that is the first one. It's a better sleep aid than Ambien.

I really don't get why Theaters just don't show the same movies over and over again instead of releasing new movies.

@@JonatasAdoM Alamo does. It's awesome. I think we actually saw more old movies there than new ones!

yep all remastered in 4K with Dolby Atmos sound.

Then check this out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abdzn6x7vrHHgIU.html

He was fantastic! You can hear bits of the music from "WOK" in "Aliens" and "Cocoon"! Listen!

I have noticed that Horner uses the same themes in just about all his movies.

@@Custerd1 Beautiful! Some one called it his signature-so one one know it was by James Horner.

Right? It was sorely missing.

Find an arthouse theatre in your area and keep your eye on its schedule. I had the distinct pleasure of getting to see Blade Runner on the big screen a couple years ago by doing that, and Khan is the kind of iconic movie that such an establishment would show at some point. May not be this summer or even the next, but eventually someone will screen it and you can pretend.

Who knows, maybe we'll get the remastered full version for the 40th

Surely much better than any of the modern Trek movies and STD!

If there would really be a theatrical reissue - than show this this trailer in cinemas before! I will watch box office mojo very closely on that opening weekend... That trailer is so effective it could give that movie a new audience.

Why wouldn't Montalban play Khan? He was Khan in the original series so it wasn't hard for him to reprise the roll.

@@rickjamz If you question me then you are not fit to follow me. Will you now challenge me to the death for the honor of leadership? I thought not.

@@protorhinocerator142 Sorry I am alphabetizing my baseball cards this month. Maybe some other time.

And then we got stuck with Cumberbatch as the remade Khan. Worse. Decision. Ever. Okay Sherlock, go try and match the likes of Mantalban. Epic fail.

@@gymkhanadog Cumberbatch makes a great Doctor Strange, and a surprisingly good Grinch. He's no Khan though. Ricardo Montalban was a great Khan in TOS and an even better Khan in ST2. But I guess since they horked up the timeline so badly with the ill-advised reboot of the franchise, they were trying to smoosh the original meeting with Khan together with Wrath of Khan. It just didn't work.

MisterTutor2010 And it's not going to be as good as the first movie.

yragcom1 Oh? It wuzn't 2 difficult, 4 WRATH OF KAHN, 2 best 1978z BIG SCREEN STAR TREK debut, n da mind of a 10, 11, or 12 year old.

Good thing time is circular.

What a "warped" sense of humor ;o)

+Benjamin Pitkin Holy crap. That means _Search For Spock_ was just getting to the rental stores on VHS when Marty took his ride.

FWIW, I regard Star Trek II, III and IV as a single continuous storyline (other than Star Wars, one of the first attempts to do this in sci-fi movies). I also agree that the 'Rebirth Trilogy', as I consider it, is the high-point of TOS.

@@benrussell-gough1201 IV was a good place to finish - in hindsight!

I'm an 80's nerd and I soiled myself!

Should have called the Botanay Bay The Cordoba :-)

It is very cold in space- which is where JJ should be immediately exiled until he figures out how big space actually is.

That's why he hijacked the Reliant, the bridge had "Rich Corinthian leather" chairs.

Good one 😹

@@darrenfrank9904 Holy crap I literally just heard Ricardo saying that in my head lol 😂😂😂 I didn't really appreciate it at the moment but I definitely miss that era now days .

I was thinking that too, I think I'd have to rate this the best trek movie of all time, so it's hard not to have a good trailer

Agreed!!!! At least of original cast. I love the new movies with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto as Kirk and Spock, respectively.

@@annmarieknapp I enjoyed the first and third new movies, but I hated the third. It was cheap pandering to the fans, and it turned me off completely. That villain didn't have to be Khan, and shouldn't have been. There were dozens of other Eugenics Wars genetically engineered "supermen" it could have been, and that could have made it one of the best sequels within the universe.

@@Jean-qu3ru You have a point.

Nah. The Voyage Home still does it for me.

FOR HATES SAKE....I SPIT MY LAST BREATH...AT THEE......

Herman Melville-Moby Dick

Ahab a feeling someone would mention that.

@@ObediahPolkinghornIII-cz5io hilarious, dude. Now drop the Mic!

Towards thee I roll all-destroying but unconquering whale

I accept Bill Shatner and Vic Mignogna as practically fungible. Except that Vic is a better actor.

@@billbrunning2474 'fungible' great word!

So true.

Same here! I thought it would be a parody! That was my favorite star trek movie

Yeah, what he said X1M! Epic!

What music was that? It's pretty awesome just like the trailer.

I want to see THAT movie!!

CCJJ160Channels Alamo Drafthouse in Austin showed the 70mm version several years back. Heard it was epic.

Way better than anything else in theatres these days

MONEY! Someone hand this man a briefcase with a million dollars.

#MeToo

And attention on deck!

"Still my favorite Star Trek movie" VERY tough act to follow.

It's funny but I'm a huge fan of the Halloween movie from '78, and years later I happened to watch the original trailer and I was blown away at how much of the movie it showed. They showed the Judith Myers' headstone scene amongst others. So looks like they've been giving away the whole movie for a long time now!

It seems like they give away the whole movie only because you’ve seen the movie already and have a context for what they are showing. If you haven’t seen the movie they’re just disjointed but attractive scenes.

Movie studios have to adapt to the considerably smaller attention spans of the modern movie goer...if you can't pique their interest in 2 1/2 minutes you've lost them!

It actually is pretty clever how they used the simulator footage to mislead. Anyone watching this hasn't seen the movie is going to go into it not actually knowing how it's going to go at all. lol

Watching movie trailers from the 30's and 40's, I've noticed Hollywood was giving away the whole movies even back then. They have ALWAYS done it.

Failing appears to be trending.

Albert Nada fale?

That's one of my favorite scenes in all of Trek

Abram's Star Trek was good.

And fale is why you fail.

And that hit summer blockbuster "the surf for spock

@Jon Seymour There's an extended directors' cut thingy, so *really* go see that if the version you've seen a bunch was the theatrical one. A theater near me shows old-school movies on Thursday afternoons and I got to see it on the big screen with a few scenes I'd never even seen before, and it rocked!

Gary San. The fun thing to do would be showing McCoys "death scene" inter cut with the fight with Kahn. Makem think its Bones thats gona die!

Gary San This is exactly what i find annoying about trailers these days. Random confusing action scenes and after watching the trailer i have no idea what the movie is about...

Thomas F. I thought the problem was the trailer giving away all the key points of the movie?

DrewLSsix hmm, sometimes. But a lot of trailers leave me completely confused. All i know after watching them is that the movie has action scenes.

Spock dies. That wasn't even hinted at in this trailer. Good one.

Jim.....you...better get down here....

stiimuli better.....hurry.....

She’s givin’ os oll she’s go’, Cap’n!

I've always thought that the only thing that would've been the icing on the cake would have been a reaction shot of Khan's jaw dropping as the Enterprise went to warp a half second before the Reliant explodes.

Sulu, get us out of here. Best possible speed.

I know right?!

they have GOT to REMAKE THIS MOVIE!

They already did and it was awful

i mean this same movie, not the British Khan

I agree,that guy was pure loathsome BritTrash.

I have that cut.

And promote with THIS trailer! AWESOME job!

I would totally pay the $12 entry and the $10 for concessions just to do this.

Would love to see a remastered version.

Actually not a bad idea. They are trying to get covid restrictions lifted once the vaccine starts taking effect. People will want to see movies. See them NOW! Re-release WoK with this trailer. Everyone already knows it's a great movie. Millennials who weren't around back then will get to experience the majesty as intended.

To quote Nicolas Meyer, "I have only one thing to say about this scene: Yes, that is Ricardo Montalban's chest."