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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – Star Trek II : the wrath of Khan



Movie – Star Trek II : the wrath of Khan

Score : 8/10  
Year : 1982
Director:  Nicholas Meyer 
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration: 1h53
Writers : Harve Bennet (story) ; Gene Roddenberry  (Star Trek created by) 

 The second Star Trek movie, the Wrath Of Khan, is a huge improvement in contrast to ''the motion picture'' which was released 3 years before. 
The Wrath is a sequel to TOS episode ''Space Seed'' in which the Enterprise crew met genetically engineered, augmented humans. Ricardo Montalban reprises his role as Khan, who's back about 15 years later, with a bitter wish for revenge. 

 Aside for the fact that a Mexican actor portrays a Sikh from India, this augmented man in both ''Space Seed'' and this sequel, the story, acting and directing of ''The Wrath of Khan'' is actually very good and puts to shame the previous movie, with one tiny exception : James Horner's music here is less of a character of its own than Jerry Goldsmith's Motion picture. Yet, Horner's score isn't a bad one, it just doesn't stand out as it should. 

 In this cult classic, Star Trek surpasses itself and offers an entertaining plot, full of action, better (but not best) dialogues, the return of TOS humour into the ingredients and a much improved pace in the story telling. 

The movie deals with several social issues, and opposes Khan VS Kirk in what became an epic battle. 
Kirk's midlife crisis and friendship with Mr Spock are also highlighted, and some of the most memorable scenes between them are in this movie. 

 The cinematography offers interesting lights & shadows contrasts which I liked a lot, and the ship-porn scenes are reduced to a more suitable duration which is a great progress since the previous movie. 

 I enjoy the Wrath of Khan quite a bit, except for a few scenes involving bugs and bloodied ears...It's not a gory movie, though, remaining faithful to Star Trek's standards in that matter. 
Starring : William Shatner, Neonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barret-Roddenberry, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Ricardo Montalban, Bibi Besch, Merrit Butrick, Paul Wilfield, Kirstie Alley 
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