Continuity mistake: When Khan's number one officer is dying in the arms of Khan, they exchange a word or two before the first officer dies quite dramatically with his eyes open. Khan then fully embraces the corpse and looks up to the viewer screen and vows to get even with Kirk. However, the "corpse", whose eyes are open, closes them upon Khan's embrace. (01:29:05)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Kirstie Alley, George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Ricardo Montalban
Khan and Kirk duke it out on their respective ships in the Mutara nebula. Khan disables the Enterprise with a lucky shot. Kirk disables the Reliant with an experienced shot. Khan activates the Genesis device only giving the crew of the Enterprise 5 minutes to get out of the nebula. Spock sacrifices his life to jump start the Enterprise and escape the nebula with no time to spare.
Kirk sends Spock's body down to the Genesis planet and McCoy walks off with Spock's katra.
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Trivia: This movie is basically a retelling of another story. When the camera first pans the shelves of the Botany Bay it stops and centers on one book on the shelf in particular.....Moby Dick. That is what this movie is about. Khan is Ahab, The Enterprise is Moby Dick. At one point in the book the whale is circling Ahab's ship on the ocean. At one point in the movie the Enterprise is circling the Reliant (Khan's ship) in the Motara Nebula. Ahab had a scar up one entire side of his body given to him by an encounter with the Whale. At the end of the movie Khan has a burn mark/scar up one side of his body as well. Not to mention that Khan quotes from Moby Dick throughout the movie. The last quote he utters is one that Ahab uttered "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
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Chosen answer: According to the novelisation of the film the Genesis project was initially designed to be capable of creating an entire solar system. While the focus of the project eventually narrowed down to altering an individual planet, the sub-routines necessary to create a star were still in place and were activated when the device detonated within the nebula.
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