I never saw Space Seed, and watched Wrath of Khan with a novice experience with Trek. I watched Wrath of Khan in the theatre a couple years later after becoming more familiar with Trek (still not having seen the TOS episode), and I'm still not that taken away by it. It's certainly well structured for any consideration of filming, especially compared to the other movies.Jonathan101 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:06 pmI disagree. I saw Wrath of Khan long before I saw Space Seed, and generally understood and didn't hae much problem with it.
I think most people probably saw WoK without knowing about the prior episode and honestly, even many who had seen said episode might have forgotten it by the time they saw the film. There was 15 years between them and even the writer of the movie hadn't seen the episode before he was hired to write the script, and he just binge watched Trek and chose Khan at random to be the villain in question.
Granted, it changes the dynamic a bit if Kirk and Khan don't have this prior history, but it could easily have been done justice. Ironically ID is as much an adaptation of that episode as it is the movie.
With Into Darkness though, I don't even translate that Khan to the original. It's pretty derivative.