Daily Dialogue — April 8, 2012

David Marcus: Lieutenant Saavik was right: You never have faced death.

Kirk: No. Not like this. I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing.

David Marcus: You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.

Kirk: Just words.

David Marcus: But good words. That’s where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you. And I’m sorry.

Kirk: Is that what you came here to say?

David Marcus: Mainly. And also that I’m proud — very proud — to be your son.

— David (Merritt Butrick), Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), screenplay by Jack B. Sowards, story by Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards, based on characters created by Gene Rodenberry

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is facing death, suggested by @tiffanyleigh and @al_grinter. Today’s suggestion by Bill Weinberger.

Trivia: Producer Harve Bennett viewed all the original Star Trek episodes and chose Star Trek: Space Seed as the best candidate for a sequel. Spock even remarks in the script that it would be interesting to return in a hundred years or so to see what type of civilization had grown there. This is the first time a movie was made as a sequel to a specific television show episode.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Interesting to think about how a change of verbs give different meanings: Face death. Cheat death. Trick death. A different story from each one of those as a theme.