A Question

Is The Wrath of Khan one of the Star Trek movies you have to have watched the television show to enjoy? Or am I missing something? In between the goofy costumes, and the incredibly lingering shots of the ships, it seemed to me like any real sense of pathos got lost. Having someone complain about their long-dead and never-seen wife without a) convincingly representing that trauma or b) seeing her die, makes the whole mess that follows seem more overwrought than moving. Maybe it's just that Eric Bana was so good as Nero, a role that I think really ought to move his career towards fully-realized supporting parts, and the cast surrounding Montalban was so milquetoast, that I'm biased by having seen the reboot first. On the other hand, seeing Khan made it much clearer how much the reboot was a gift to fans. I could watch any number of Boneses holler "are you out of your Vulcan mind?" one of the cleverer transformations of a sci-fi term into an obscenity ("frak" has nothing on this, sorry) any number of times.