Weirdhouse Cinema: The Wrath of Khan
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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In this special Star Trek Week episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss 1982's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:38.8 | And this is Joe McCormick. And with this installment, we're going to be finishing out Star Trek week here in the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed. So we are, as promised, going to be talking about a Star Trek movie. And it was hard to pick our first actual Star Trek film to cover here on Weird House Cinema as the Trek films give us a fair amount of variety to choose from. Do we go with one of the |
| 0:44.0 | weirder installments, maybe one of the others that's kind of a flawed film, but with some |
| 0:49.6 | interesting ideas or a captivating performance hidden in there. Do we start at the beginning with Star Trek |
| 0:55.5 | the motion picture, or do we go with what many consider to be the finest Trek film of them all? |
| 1:01.7 | That's ultimately where we landed here. We decided to discuss 1982's Star Trek 2, |
| 1:08.1 | The Wrath of Khan. This was a great pick, Rob, and yeah, I've seen this movie many times over the years, |
| 1:14.8 | always enjoyed it, and I loved it again this week. |
| 1:17.7 | Before we go on to discuss the movie itself in detail, one thing I thought it would be important |
| 1:24.8 | to do here at the top is understand this film's role in Star Trek history. |
| 1:31.1 | Because I think you can make a really solid argument that without the wrath of Khan, we wouldn't have a lot of the Trek that came after. |
| 1:39.8 | Believe it or not, in the timeline where this movie didn't exist or the same film in its place in the sequence was not as good, I think Star Trek might not be a very big deal today. |
| 1:52.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:53.0 | And I don't think this is a crazy idea by any stretch of the imagination. |
| 1:57.5 | This one, this one is important. |
| 1:59.7 | Right. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, I'm not claiming originality in this idea. |
| 2:02.2 | Other people have expressed this before. So the original Star Trek TV series ran on NBC for only |
| 2:10.8 | three seasons from 1966 to 1969. It's kind of hard to believe that because of how big its cultural impact has become. |
| 2:20.9 | But it was canceled after only 79 episodes due to poor ratings. |
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