Did you tear up during spocks death/funeral?

[rocketscientist]

Spock's death in Khan is, imo, the biggest scene ever in the ST pantheon. It's a shame that some of the neo-Trekkers who came in with the ST spin-offs can't or won't acknowledge the significance and impact of this scene. Some of them are biased by the success and accolades that the original show still gets and some of them, I think, just don't understand the context that that scene occurred in. The fact is, at the time, Spock was killed and was not supposed to be resurrected. Although Harve Bennett wrote in a suggestion and mechanism for that, Nimoy at the time had no intention of returning as Spock. He changed his mind after the fact and after Paramount told him he could direct TSFS.

WRT TSFS, although it didn't do as well as TWOK, it was still a very successful film. It is 75% fresh on rottentomatoes and is one of the five ST films that made the top-100 list on RT (the others being FC, TWOK, TVH, and TUC). Thus, it is one of the five great ST films and definitely wasn't subject to the silly odd-numbered film curse (just as NEM bucked the trend of the even films being the good ones).

TWOK is widely regarded as the greatest of the ST films by most critics. It is the only film that made the NY Times list of the best films of the 20th century, it's #1 on ST.com and is included on space.com on their top-10 sci-fi film list. It's a bonafide classic sci-fi movie with one of the best villains ever in Montablan's Khan (who made the top-20 EW list of movie villains at #16 I think).

 

[Red Ranger]

Like a baby. For years afterwards, I couldn't watch it without boohooing. I still don't like WOK, even though it was a good movie.


Spock was my favorite character at the time. Even though there was no 'net, we had Starlog and other stuff and it was out there that he would be killed off.

Most people in that theater cried, including the men.

My only "hope" at the time was that I did recognize that they left the door open for him to return. I didn't know if Nimoy wanted back in (the word at the time was that he didn't,) and I figured if not, that was the end of Star Trek.

I'm one of the minority that loved STIII. Yeah, it was a cheat bringing him back, but I didn't care.

You know, it was a good cheat, in the fine tradition of how Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru test! Besides, Spock's resurection made it possible to have one of the best McCoy lines. When Kirk tells him he's suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, McCoy angrily says, "That green-blooded son of a bitch. It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!" -- RR

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Yup, that was a great line...and DeForest Kelley's expression! That was icing on the cake!