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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Khan's Curses in ST II
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 02:48:41 EDT
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In article <596@leadsv.UUCP> chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander) writes:
>
>	Most of the juicy statements that Khan Noonian Singh
>utters in the movie, The Wrath of Khan, are taken from the
>Herman Melville book Moby Dick.  They are uttered by Captain
>Ahab at the Great White Whale.

And I suspect the rest of the quotes are from Milton's "Paradise Lost".
These are foreshadowed early in the film, when Chechov is first
exploring the wreck of the Botany Bay.  Just before he notices the name
of the ship, he looks at a bookshelf.  I stopped the video tape at that
point, and the only titles that were legible were "Moby Dick" and
"Paradise Lost".
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    Barry Margolin
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