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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	comment	The one where the original Cool Starship Enterprise is Killed Off for Real.Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the third movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 1984.Incoming Late-Arrival Spoiler: in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Spock was killed, meant to be Killed Off for Real. But Nimoy changed his mind and decided he didn't want to leave the series, as working on that film was such a great experience. Thus room was left at the very end of that film for him to come back, and this film was all about this. Spock himself sat in the director's chair this time and did so again for the next film.You see, Spock put his katra into McCoy before he died, so now the good doctor is Sharing a Body with the late Science Officer. Now, if only Spock's body could be raised as well. No, wait, his body landed on the Genesis Planet, so now it's a living empty shell! The Rapid Aging down there means he has to repeatedly go through Vulcan PMS and Mate or Die. Fortunately, Saavik happens to be there. Now, the obvious thing would be to reunite Spock's body and soul, but the Obstructive Bureaucrats say no. The crew sets off for Genesis anyway, of course, where the Klingons are waiting, headed by Commander Kruge.Of the six "original cast" films, this one is the closest in style to the original television series: the planets all look like soundstages, it's a goldmine for the Kirk/Spock shippers, and it ends with Kirk having a manly brawl. Just about the only thing missing is the classic shirt rip.Star Trek III is the second part in a loose trilogy arc that began with The Wrath of Khan and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Although the Klingons are shown speaking their own language at first, for simplicity's sake they speak English to each other for the majority of the film. Only Kruge, Torg, and Maltz are shown to actually be able to speak English, though. This becomes a brief plot point when the Klingon troopers board the Enterprise and don't recognise the computer counting down from 9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Spock and Sarek were always at odds with each other, but when T'Lar questions Sarek's logic in resurrecting Spock through fal-tor-pan, Sarek answers, "Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain where my son is concerned." The same goes for Bones and Spock, but the former gives a quiet little speech to Spock's body that he missed him while the latter was dead.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1439161f	comment	This entire movie is a long string of Heroic BSODs for Kirk. He starts the movie with the one he suffered from Spock's death in Wrath of Khan, has a short one when he hears the Enterprise is due for decommission, and the above mentioned two. Kirk's really earning the happy ending, and facing down situations he's so used to cheating his way out of.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: If you listen to the DVD commentary, Harve Bennett mentions that he really wanted the Enterprise getting blown up to be a total shock to the audience, so he asked the people cutting the trailer together to please, please omit it from the trailers. What's the first trailer they come back with? "The last voyage of the Enterprise." the Face Palm must have registered on the Richter scale, though it did increase interest in the film from fans who wondered if they'd actually do it, especially following the fake-out of Spock's death.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The chief reason, according to Harve Bennett, that the next film had to be Lighter and Softer.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_16365fa0	type	You Fool!
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: Kirk calls Kruge this for fighting him on a burning planet instead of trying to escape. This makes an interesting Call-Back to the original series, given that Kang never told him that "only a fool fights in a burning house."
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_17ce80aa	comment	The Klingon Dictionary credits Maltz for assisting in the Federation efforts to translate and to understand the Klingon language.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Kruge orders his gunner to target the Grissom's engines, with the plan to take the crew captive, but the entire ship explodes. Kruge is not amused by the explanation that it was a lucky shot. The precense of the Grissom itself is also an example as, due to an agreement between the Klingons and the Federation, it was sent to investigate Genesis due to it being a short range ship with practically zero armament, meaning that it could only be there for a limited science mission with no chance of laying claim militarily (and it being such a weak ship meant that it wouldn't be attacked by the more prideful Klingon commanders). Unfortunately, Kruge showed up with a different plan in mind.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Despite the notorious case of Trailers Always Spoil that occurred when the destruction of the Enterprise was shown, it at least didn't reveal how the ship was destroyed, and was edited in such a way that it implied the Enterprise was destroyed outright by the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, instead of being hopelessly crippled and then destroyed via the Self-Destruct Mechanism.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: The undermanned, still-battle-damaged Enterprise is basically The Little Starship That Could compared to the big, menacing Excelsior. This is Kruge's gambit when firing upon the Enterprise when they first meet over the Genesis planet. He is convinced that he is outgunned "ten to one" and is flabbergasted that the Enterprise didn't finish him off after the opening salvo. He doesn't realize that one shot was enough to disable her completely.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Although the original crew still lives, the Enterprise is destroyed during a self-destruct sequence initiated by Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov, in order for them to transport to safety. But not without taking a few Klingons with her.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Forget the "wrath of Khan", Kirk's fury over David's murder is such that he's willing to destroy the Enterprise to gain revenge against Kruge.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Excelsior is a dubious technology prototype—in other words, a strange device. When McCoy says he wants to go to Genesis, the alien objects, saying "Genesis allowed is not! Is planet forbidden!", or, in typical syntax, a forbidden planet, a nod to the 1956 sci-fi film Forbidden Planet, which Gene Roddenberry said was one of his inspirations behind Star Trek.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1eedb914	comment	Avengers Assemble: The scene where the crew get back together and beam aboard the Enterprise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Admiral Morrow. It's established that he and Kirk are old friends, but Morrow still refuses to help. Kirk is "therefore going anyway".
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Kirk to Kruge, after kicking him off a cliff. Kruge refuses.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2073b86a	type	Reasonable Request Rejected
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2073b86a	comment	Reasonable Request Rejected: Starfleet, apparently, has more than a few Obstructive Bureaucrats: When Sarek explains about Spock's katra to Kirk, Kirk goes to Starfleet Command, specifically Admiral Morrow, and makes an earnest request to be allowed to return to Planet Genesis to retrieve Spock's body to fulfill Sarek's request. Because of the controversy surrounding the Genesis Project and its potential to be misused as a weapon, as well as the controversy regarding its inadvertent deployment, Kirk is denied permission. He tells his crew, "The word is 'no'. I am therefore going, anyway." When Saavik and David find the rejuvenated Spock on Planet Genesis, they request permission to beam him aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. Captain J.T. Estaban, who is strictly "by the book" insists on contacting Starfleet Command for instructions on the matter. He agrees that Starfleet would probably approve, but he's not taking any chances. Ironically, this action saves Saavik and Spock, and gives David a little longer to live, as this is when the Klingons decide to show up, and the gunner disobeys an order to target the engines only, wiping out the whole ship.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Ship, out of danger?": The Wrath of Khan: Spock asks this with his dying breath to Kirk, having just done a repair job that exposed him to lethal amounts of radiation in order to save the Enterprise and all of its crew. This film: Spock asks this again after being brought back to life, unaware initially that the Enterprise was destroyed in a gambit against the Klingons. In a way, the answer is yes, as self-destructing the ship prevented it from falling into enemy hands which would've been a far worse fate for it and the Federation.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: The jury-rigged Enterprise is still badly damaged after the last film, only running on a skeleton crew, and Scotty didn't anticipate being in a combat situation, thus the ship is disabled by Kruge's bird-of-prey after its circuits overload. Kruge is surprised when he wins, since the Enterprise outguns him ten-to-one.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2c62c9f0	type	You Would Do the Same for Me
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2c62c9f0	comment	You Would Do the Same for Me: Between Kirk and the newly resurrected Spock.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Echoed from the previous movie, when Sarek leads Kirk (or vice versa) through the memory of Spock's death.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: Stealing the Enterprise is accompanied by louder and louder versions of the classic series fanfare, followed by the orchestra going absolutely berserk once the damn thing starts to actually move.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_313d7228	comment	Previously onâ€¦: The movie opens with clips from the last movie showing Spock's death and Burial in Space, serving as the equivalent of a "Previously on" segment (even if those words aren't actually spoken).
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Kruge is brutal and cold-blooded, but prefers taking prisoners instead of destroying ships (though probably just so he can get information or hold them hostage).
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: Scotty has Jerry-rigged the ship to operate with only five crew members. The Enterprise is supposed to have a crew of hundreds. At least the automation breaks down later. Scotty says, "The automation system's overloaded. I didn't expect to take us into combat, ya know...!" It's understandable that simply moving in a straight line could be done with a far smaller crew than usually necessary.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3687d605	comment	Rapid Aging: Said word-for-word by McCoy, about Spock, on the Genesis planet.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_36dcbe1c	comment	Switch to English: Inverted when Valkris and Kruge start talking in English before switching to Klingonese.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_37fcf16	comment	Death is Cheap: Undoubtedly the filmmakers must have known that once they decided to bring back Spock that it would undermine the emotion of his Heroic Sacrifice from the previous film, and with it the theme of how despite his greatness Kirk can't always save everyone, which would probably explain why they killed off Kirk's son David and destroyed the Enterprise, in order to balance out Spock's return and retain the theme of Kirk's fallibility.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me:
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: When Kirk watches security footage of Spock's final moments to figure out who he might have given his katra to, it's footage taken from the previous movie, complete with dramatic pans and camera angles.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: When viewing the footage of the engine room, Kirk rewinds the recording, and it looks like a VHS tape rewinding instead of instantly jumping back. The screens, largely (though not entirely) starting with this film, are clearly CRTs. Great for making screens feature motion, but they look less like modern screens than the still-image projections and backlit photos that came before. On top of that, the countdown on the screens looks obviously 8-bit. The malfunctioning transwarp drive of USS Excelsior sounds like nothing you might hear on a spaceship, and but rather a misfiring internal combustion engine. Word of God stated that was purely Rule of Funny.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Valkris makes no attempt to beg for her life or flee when she realizes Kruge is going to kill her for seeing the Genesis data. Saavik, knowing that the Klingons are going to execute her, doesn't even blink until David performs his Heroic Sacrifice and dies in her place.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3aaa9cd0	comment	All Deserts Have Cacti: One of the indications of the instability of the Genesis planet is patchwork ecosystems in close proximity; a desert region next door to a lush jungle is visually signified not by expanses of sand but rocky terrain and tall cacti, which look eerily beautiful when snowed upon.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: The uniforms worn by Kruge and his men look like they were designed by Gene Simmons. Kirk, Sulu, and Chekov wear some snazzy leather jackets with their civilian outfits. Kirk removes his jacket to cover David's body.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Let's face it, when your movie is called The Search for Spock, it's not going to end with Admiral Kirk turning to the viewers and saying "Sorry folks, we didn't find him." As William Shatner put it, if they had done so, "people would have thrown rocks at the screen."
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: But replaced in a good way. Sometimes the needs of the one actually outweigh the needs of the many.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: In a particularly shameless example even for James Horner, the movie's end credits music is exactly the same as the previous one's.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Yeah, they get Spock back, but Kirk loses his son David and destroys the Enterprise in the process, leaving the fate of himself and his immediate crew in serious doubt.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: Almost happened. Leonard Nimoy has afterwards told that the marketing department wanted to include a destroyed Enterprise on the film's poster, but he managed to push back on that as the director and leave the scene as a shocking surprise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The fact Spock is actually still alive isn't confirmed until a ways into the movie; the moment the film's title was announced officially gave away the fact that Spock was returning.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: To a much lesser extent than most of the other 80's Trek movies, natch; all the special effects shots are new for this film, and the stock footage from the previous movie is actually justified somewhat, since Kirk is watching it on a security log. A few shots of the Bird of Prey flying towards or away from the viewer are re-used within the movie itself. The shots are not particularly noticable, except for one where the ship's wings are clearly in attack configuration when in the previous shot they were not. The 2002 DVD release has a rather odd example. For some reason they were apparently unable to get anyone to record an actual DVD Commentary for the film, and so resorted to taking audio clips of Leonard Nimoy, Robin Curtis, writer/producer Harve Bennett and cinematographer Charles Correll from the "making of" documentaries and stitching them together in such a way as to make them sound like a real commentary. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that at no point does anyone in the "commentary" directly reference what's happening on-screen.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Captain of the Excelsior. That said, he does go out of his way to warn Kirk about what he's about to do. How much of that is respect to Kirk, if at all, and how much his overconfidence in the Excelsior is arguable. Even more amusing is that, even IF Scotty had not sabotaged its transwarp drive, later materials reveal that it wouldn't have worked anyway. The idea was scrapped and Excelsior's warp drive was replaced with the standard one by the time Sulu took command years later.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_4fb78f0c	comment	Scotty Time: Lampshaded when Scotty tells Kirk that refit will take "eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two." Kirk asks if he multiplies all estimates by four. Scott says he has to, "how else would I keep up my reputation as a miracle worker?"
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Spock's Rapid Aging is not a pleasant thing to watch. And the screams he yells out add more to the effect of what is happening to him.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_508ef715	comment	When Kruge's bird-of-prey is hit, sparks fly all over The Bridge, killing his pet targ.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_5380d2f1	comment	Painless Death for a Price: Zigzagged. When Kirk and Spock are beamed aboard the Klingon Bird of Prey, Kirk holds the sole Klingon left aboard, Maltz, at phaser point and tells him, "You, help us or die." Maltz replies, "I do not deserve to live." An exasperated Kirk merely says, "Fine, I'll kill you later." Naturally, to Maltz's chagrin, Kirk reneges on that promise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Hikaru Sulu (played by 5'6" George Takei) single-handedly disarms a security guard twice his size, with a judo drop.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_58e008c	comment	Sharing a Body: Having Spock's katra in McCoy's head amounts to this, until Spock can get it back.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_59bf0074	comment	Flying Cutlery Spaceship: Of course the Klingon Bird of Prey, which debuted as the villain Kruge's warship. Arguably this is where the trope originated. Compared to the more recent examples on this list, Kruge's Bird of Prey was actually rather tame, but it did have cool moving wings with disruptor cannons on the tips. Also, unlike most of the ships on this list, Kruge's ship was an actual physical model, not a CGI mashup.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Kirk and Kruge end up fighting on the edge of an abyss opened up in the surface of the dying planet. Kruge goes over the edge and falls to his death.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: David Marcus jumps in the way of a Klingon about to execute Saavik. She is spared because one dead hostage is as good as another, to them.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: Kirk's toast in his apartment.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_77b009ea	comment	Saavik is left hanging on the Genesis planet because Captain Esteban (of the Grissom) wants to do things "by the book". Having learned that lesson last movie, she's almost a Phrase Catcher, there.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: DC Comics adapted the film, though fans would have to wait until the 2010s for the first part of the trilogy (Wrath of Khan) to be made into a comic book.Explanation Marvel Comics first had the license to the franchise when Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released, but the last issue was released four months before Khan debuted. DC picked it up in 1984, just before Search debuted.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Genesis Planetâ€“shattering kaboom, anyway. Turns out the planet is unstable, and shatters itself within weeks of its creation.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7d791b62	comment	Rewind, Replay, Repeat: How Kirk realizes Spock mind-melded with McCoy.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_7f2c7fae	comment	Explosive Instrumentation: When Kruge's bird-of-prey is hit, sparks fly all over The Bridge, killing his pet targ. When the Enterprise is hit, an explosion knocks Kirk to the deck and Scotty's console bursts into sparks before going dead.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Christopher Lloyd in full Chewing the Scenery mode. So much so that Dom Irrera in his standup act thought that Lloyd was doing his other famous role: "Kirk, you don't want to give me the Genesis device? Hokey-doke!"
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The freighter captain gets "paid" by Kruge.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_85a782c7	comment	Space Clothes: Mostly averted, continuing from the previous film, but there are some glaring exceptions, such as the bar waitress's "Space leotard", and the security guards have outfits so ridiculous they look like intentional parodies of this trope.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: And Maltz was never seen again. His fate varied Depending on the Writer. He committed suicide, according to the Novelization. However, in the Expanded Universe he's still around in the 24th century, ninety years later, having spent some time as a Federation prisoner before being released, and atones for his past failure by helping out when someone gains control of the Genesis information. See Star Trek: The Genesis Wave. The Klingon Dictionary credits Maltz for assisting in the Federation efforts to translate and to understand the Klingon language. The Star Trek: Klingon Academy PC game has an entry on Maltz in the library computer. It insists that Maltz died heroically and that there is absolutely no truth to the rumors that he survived and is currently assisting Starfleet with Klingon language translation.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: The fate of David Marcus is a chilling reminder that just because you're the son of one of the most badass officers in the history of Starfleet, that doesn't mean that you'll inherit those great qualities that, with training and experience, helped make your famous father the badass he is.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Spock. What, did you think they weren't going to find him? They know where they left him!
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Upon his detection of McCoy's life signs in Spock's quarters, Chekov exclaims, "I'm not crazy!" in Russian ("Ð¯ Ð½Ðµ Ñ�ÑƒÐ¼Ð°Ñ�ÑˆÐµÐ´ÑˆÐ¸Ð¹!").
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Robin Curtis's (Saavik) bouffant-like perm/mullet hairstyle.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8eac3f0e	type	People Fall Off Chairs
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8eac3f0e	comment	People Fall Off Chairs: Kirk, a moment after he's blindsided with notification that his son David is dead. The script called for him to slump into his chair, but after a misstep caused Shatner to miss, they changed it for the extra pathos of the normally unflappable Kirk being devastated.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Though no one dies in this case, the Excelsior and her crew suffer rightly for treating Scotty like crap when he sabotages her experimental transwarp drive and the Enterprise leaves her in the dust. The Klingon gunner that destroys the USS Grissom against the wishes of Commander Kruge. Disobedience is one thing, but talking back at your officer when he tells you off? He just signed his own death warrant. Another non-fatal example: a hulking security guard calls Sulu "tiny" and tries to intimidate him. Sulu later beats him up.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: The book has an extra wake for Spock and the trainees who died, and itâ€™s a pathetic mess, Kirk getting (rightfully) rejected by Carol when heâ€™s On the Rebound, Scotty getting wasted out of his grief for his nephew, Spockâ€™s Katra already causing issues for Bones and Saavik finding it all humiliating.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_92c04b83	type	Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_92c04b83	comment	Stolen MacGuffin Reveal: The bits and pieces that Scotty pulled out of the Excelsior computer to cripple its transwarp drive.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: Kirk vs. Kruge as Genesis rapidly collapses during the film's climax.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_93a70bc4	comment	Mourning an Object: Kirk uses the Self-Destruct Mechanism to destroy the Enterprise along with the Klingons who have boarded her. As what's left of her burns up in the atmosphere of the Genesis planet, Kirk watches with a heartbroken look on his face.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_93a82bd2	type	Not Named in Opening Credits
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_93a82bd2	comment	Not Named in Opening Credits: William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. DeForest Kelley. Rest of the cast. (Lampshaded by a slightly longer than normal gap between when Shatner's name fades and Kelly's appears.)
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9428076c	type	Repaying for the One
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9428076c	comment	Repaying for the One: This movie is the partial namer for this trope. Kirk and Company sacrifice so much to bring Spock's body and mind back together, including self-destructing the Enterprise, and David Marcus' death. As Kirk explains to Spock when he's whole again:
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Kirk and McCoy on the surface, watching the Enterprise explode and burn up with all the Klingons:
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Kirk, after David's murder. Subverted for Sarek, when he gets his son back.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_992aa05b	type	Space Friction
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_992aa05b	comment	Space Friction: When the Excelsior breaks down, it grinds to a halt relative to Spacedock.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9a03fce0	type	The Day the Music Lied
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9a03fce0	comment	The Day the Music Lied: The Transwarp sequence has all of these awesome, booming drums and trumpets as it's getting ready to pull off the maneuver, and the second the order is given to "execute", it dies out except for the sounds of strings that you can barely hear under the malfunctioning computer.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Inverted by Kirk.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: David getting stabbed has a Nothing Is Scarier feel because of the Gory Discretion Shot. While not human, the snake-like creature which attacks Kruge gets crushed to pulp by his hands. The disintegration effect of the Klingon disruptor is a lot nastier than the usual "turn into a glowing silhouette and vanish" in other Trek shows.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9b57f005	comment	Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: This is the first Star Trek production to feature the full Klingon language, and so a lot of the word pronunciations are different to how they would sound in TNG onwards—for example, listen to how Kruge says Qapla (with a more phonetic sound) just before Torg's boarding party leaves for the Enterprise. The most common explanation for this among fans is that Kruge just has an odd regional accent.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Uhura. Holy crap. Sulu as well. A towering security guard, who takes exception to Sulu's sarcastic remark about his work ethic (or lack thereof) menacingly growls, "Don't get smart, Tiny." Cut to Sulu easily kicking his ass. "Don't call me 'Tiny'."
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Sulu seems to admire Excelsior. He would eventually become its Captain in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.note The novelization explains that Sulu is already slated to become Captain of Excelsior but throws that away to go rescue Spock. It is several years later that he is finally able to take command.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9d39440e	comment	Right Hand Snarling Monster: Kruge has one. It doesn't do much but it still scares the crap out of the rest of his crew.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Saavik is left hanging on the Genesis planet because Captain Esteban (of the Grissom) wants to do things "by the book". Having learned that lesson last movie, she's almost a Phrase Catcher, there. Some of the patrons at the bar have tribbles. McCoy asks the katra-less Spock if he could remember, then adds "Remember?", which was what Spock told him before bestowing his katra.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: David is this in the novel. Whereas the movie has David using the highly unstable protomatter in the Genesis device, the book instead has the rest of the development team using it instead. While David did speak out, Saavik berates him as he ultimately did nothing to stop his colleagues.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: David's murder. It's stark and brutal, and the film up til then had been a fun little jaunt with comedic action and scenes with each of the characters having their own little moments. Then David's stabbed in the heart and everything after that becomes a lot more brooding and dark as Kirk begins to lose everything. And then the destruction of the Enterprise itself. David had only been around since the previous film. The Enterprise had been around for (at the time) almost twenty years!
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Kirk despairs when he has to sacrifice the Enterprise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: In the Give Me a Reason moment above, Torg calmly explains to Kruge that there are lifesigns on the planet that could mean potential prisoners, placating Kruge. You get the impression he's dealt with such mood swings before.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The final password for the self-destruct is 0-0-0-Destruct-0. Granted, it's the fourth password of a set of four, and the encryption is tied to voice recognition, but still. Also, the self-destruct passwords apparently haven't been changed for years — they're the same ones used in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". The only thing that apparently changed was that the time interveal was changed from 30 to 60 seconds.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: The Enterprise's 60-second countdown to self-destruct lasts 100 seconds on-screen, and even that is compressed to exclude people moving around.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: Kruge's Bird-of-Prey destroys the Grissom with one torpedo, which actually pisses him off.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: On the Genesis planet, when Kirk shoots a Klingon with a phaser.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The Enterprise torpedoing Kruge's bird-of-prey is played as a triumphant moment, largely courtesy of James Horner and his BGM — and then the bird-of-prey recovers while the Enterprise basically shuts down, her automation system overloaded. Cue Oh, Crap! moment as Kruge fires a single torpedo that fully disables the Enterprise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a6ab7940	type	I Am Your Opponent
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a6ab7940	comment	I Am Your Opponent: Kruge, to Kirk. Literally a line in the movie: "Admiral Kirk. This is your opponent speaking!"
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a748fe7a	type	You Can Turn Back
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a748fe7a	comment	You Can Turn Back: Once Kirk gets the Enterprise rolling, he tells Scotty, Chekov and Sulu that he cannot bear to have them suffer the same legal fate as him, telling them to please leave the ship. They insist on staying onboard and receiving further orders from him. Kirk realizes that there's no stopping them from helping their Captain out, so he has them man their posts.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: All the young Spocks.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Sarek. Despite his differences with Spock, and his own strict Vulcan beliefs, he is still a grieving and anguished father who just lost his son. When he goes to pay Kirk a visit, he checks logic at the door and demands answers. He then requests that T'Lar perform a mythical and dangerous procedure to reunite Spock's mind with his body.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Immediately after being almost strangled to death by a mutated snake-like creature, Kruge calmly reports to the ship that they haven't found anything significant as of yet.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Subverted. Kirk does try to save Kruge from falling to his death, but the latter uses the opportunity to try and kill them both. Cue Kirk kicking Kruge away and sending him plummeting into the lava below.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Kruge hears the Self-Destruct Mechanism on the Enterprise counting down, he yells at his men, "GET OUT! GET OUT OF THERE! GET OUT!" Too late, though. When Kruge's pet growls loudly as he's walking away, Kruge spins and tells one of the crewmembers, "Feed him!" Cue a frightened look on the crewmember. Scotty and Chekov jump in surprise when Kirk starts up the self-destruct sequence, realizing how serious he is.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ad40d85	type	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ad40d85	comment	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: Towards the end, as McCoy is speaking to the Katra-less Spock:
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_addc723c	type	Neuro-Vault
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_addc723c	comment	Neuro-Vault: It turns out Spock implanted his soul/essence/memories in McCoy at the end of the previous film, just before his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Uhura says this word-for-word to her adventure-seeking co-worker in the transporter room, moments before shoving him in a closet at phaser-point while she beams the crew to the Enterprise. The freighter captain demands Valkris tell him when he'll gets paid. She replies, "Soon, captain." Guess what happens next?
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me:
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: It was hinted at in the movie, confirmed by the novel version, that part of Kirk wanted to kill himself after Spock died, noting that the Vulcan wouldnâ€™t care if essentially cremated or buried, but Kirk wanted the flames for himself, in an Ironic Echo to â€œAmok Timeâ€� when Spock says he shall neither live long or prosper after thinking he killed Kirk.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Maltz is SO dumb that even HE realises he deserves to die for his stupidity. Deconstructed in that, while Kruge very well might have killed Maltz, Kirk has no intention to, even though he has every reason to. Maltz's fate is ambiguous. The novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home states that he was able to commit suicide, but he does appear in some expanded universe novels. We get that the Klingons on the Enterprise don't understand English, but it doesn't take much to realize that there's a countdown going on purely from contextual clues: abandoned ship, computer speaking slowly and methodicallynote The novelization reveals that Torg thought it was the ship's clock chiming the time. For example, Dutch (and the audience) knew what a countdown in an alien's language looked like in Predator.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Uhura, for most of the film. Combined with They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character. Mind you, her big scene in the transporter room is pretty awesome, but there is literally no reason for it ending with her being left behind other then that they didn't need her character for the rest of the film. The previous film, when everyone beams from Regula I to the caves inside Regula while leaving no one behind, shows that transporters can be operated on a time delay. This very film later also shows this, as none of the Enterprise crew remain behind when they beam off (while simultaneously beaming the Klingons aboard) before Enterprise's self-destruct. So there is no reason Uhura couldn't have put a short time delay on the transporter and joined everyone else on their mission to Genesis. (Fortunately, she rejoins them just before the end of this film, so that she can be along for the next one.) The film's novelization gives Uhura a little more to do, as she scrambles Starfleet's communication channels during the Enterprise theft, hightails it to the Vulcan embassy on Earth, and joins Sarek in convincing the Vulcan government to pre-emptively grant Kirk and crew asylum there, instead of just handing them over to Starfleet authorities when they arrive. Grace Lee Whitney appears at Spacedock when Enterprise arrives. She is only credited as "Woman in Cafeteria". Common fan canon has her as actually being Janice Rand. The fact that she is there at all is due to Nimoy putting her there. Bennett had neglected to include her in the film.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bb1d4377	type	Give Me a Reason
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bb1d4377	comment	Give Me a Reason: After Kruge executes a mook for failing him, his second officer asks for his attention while he's still in full bloodlust mode. Fortunately for Torg, he points out the survivors on the planet (Saavik and David), giving Kruge the prisoners he desired.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The scene where David dies. See Sharing a Body, and you'll see McCoy's always had a pretty foul mouth.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bc0346e2	type	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bc0346e2	comment	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Implied through the introduction of the Excelsior; a newer and sleeker ship boasting of "transwarp" capabilities that is a deliberate contrast to the aging Enterprise. But Enterprise was in no condition for an actual fight after the Genesis incident, and Scotty was able to sabotage its' engines to give them a clean escape. Excelsior is later established as a friendly sister ship to Enterprise-A in Star Trek VI.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_beca6919	type	Empty Chair Memorial
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_beca6919	comment	Empty Chair Memorial: During Kirk's log entry, he paces the bridge, briefly stopping to pat the empty science station chair Spock previously occupied. Chekov is clearly reluctant to sit there when ordered.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bed53353	type	Mate or Die
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_bed53353	comment	Mate or Die: Vulcan pon farr is normally a once-every-seven-years deal, but Spock experiences it multiple times as he undergoes Rapid Aging. Saavik has to make sure it's "mate" and not "die."
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The senior crew of the Enterprise. While Scotty rigs the Enterprise so that Kirk can man it himself, Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov insist on continuing on with Kirk and Bones. This loyalty, while not surprising, visibly moves Kirk.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: When the captured Maltz declares he doesn't deserve to live, Kirk promises to kill him later (let's get away from the exploding planet first). When Maltz demands he make good on it, Kirk has him taken away.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Carol Marcus disappears entirely after the conclusion of Wrath of Khan. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device, Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the Hand Wave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet. In fact, everyone in this film acts like David was solely responsible for Project Genesis, even though Carol seemed to be the lead scientist in the previous movie. The filmmakers have even indicated that part of the reason she was written out was that they didn't want to deal with the implication of her being complicit in the use of protomatter. She would not appear onscreen in Star Trek again until the inclusion of her younger, alternate self in Star Trek Into Darkness. This also means her reaction to David's death was never shown. note In the novelisations of the films, Carol was away during this film and the next visiting the grieving relatives of her Genesis Project coworkers, characters who were never developed onscreen, and it's during one of those visits that they tell her what happened to David. Kirk did try to contact her himself but was unable to get through.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Enterprise looks like she scored a Curb-Stomp Battle against Kruge's bird-of-prey — and then Scotty's automation system gets overloaded, her Deflector Shields conk out and one well-aimed torpedo from Kruge's gunner disables her.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Leonard Nimoy's name doesn't appear in the opening credits, to preserve what surprise there might be about his return; to balance it, the roll of stars at the head of the closing credits ends with "And, as Spock:" followed by the names of all the actors who played the revived Spock and finishing with Nimoy.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: Scotty "performing surgery" on the USS Excelsior's transwarp drive.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: The last film had Kirk reunite with his son, who he had to stay away from for most of his life (for understandable reasons, as he tried to balance Career Versus Family, disappointing Carol too many times). David dies not long after.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c54d550d	comment	He committed suicide, according to the Novelization.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c5dcc180	type	How Many Fingers?
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c5dcc180	comment	How Many Fingers?: Kirk asks McCoy this as he gives him the Vulcan salute.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c69ae9b2	type	Self-Destruct Mechanism
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c69ae9b2	comment	Self-Destruct Mechanism: Once again, the Enterprise's is activated. This time, however, it's not cancelled at the last second. The first set of explosions kill the Klingon boarding party then blow up the bridge dome. Then charges start going off in the saucer section, causing the saucer section to begin breaking apart before another more powerful set of explosions rip off about 3/4 of the saucer section. What's left of the Enterprise is unable to maintain orbit and is pulled in the Genesis Planet's atmosphere, burning up in the process.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The seedy bar McCoy goes to is pretty clearly inspired by the Mos Eisley Cantina, complete with a smuggler for hire (who talks like a bad Yoda impression). The Grissom is named after Gus Grissom, one of the astronauts who died in the Apollo I accident in 1967. Its type, Oberth class, is named for German physicist Hermann Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Subverted with the cool-looking but utterly useless science vessel Grissom, and the Excelsior, which is intended to be an obnoxious too-modern contrast to the good old Enterprise. She gets Rescued from the Scrappy Heap a few movies later when Sulu is in the center seat. While not as popular, the Oberth-Class has a reasonably large fanbase, with some seeing it as a cool little short-range science ship that keeps getting blown up because it keeps ending up in fights it shouldn't be in. Played straight with the utterly badass Klingon Bird-Of-Prey, and the Enterprise, of course (battle damage be damned).
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c955269e	type	The Stateless
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_c955269e	comment	The Stateless: Kirk fears this may happen to the barebones Enterprise crew for hijacking the ship.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The lieutenant who Uhura drives into the closet is just called "Mr. Adventure" in the credits. Invoked by Kruge, whose name is only spoken once in the film (by Valkris), when he refuses to give his name to Kirk.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In an early episode of Star Trek, Spock tells Uhura "Vulcan has no moon" in response to her flirting. However, Star Trek III shows a massive "moon" in the Vulcan sky. Justified in that it's so big, in fact, that Vulcan does not technically have a moon; Vulcan is a binary planet. This specificity is quite within Vulcan character. Admiral Morrow mentions that the Enterprise is 20 years old as justification for its decommissioning. This is more of an out-and-out error in retrospect, with later entries in the franchise putting the ship's age at nearer 45 years at the time of its destruction. However, Morrow's figure is still incongruous with the bits and pieces of the ship's age that have been implied until this pointnote (Spock having served under Pike for over a decade, followed by at least one, probably two five-year missions under Kirk either side of an 18-month refit, followed by several years as an Academy training vessel. And that's assuming that, as most people did at the time, you file Star Trek: The Animated Series under Canon Discontinuity; if you include that series, there's Robert April's captaincy to consider as well), which put the age of the Enterprise much nearer 30 years than 20.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The Enterprise self-destructs on its senior officers' command (don't worry, they beam away from the ship), killing a bunch of Klingons that tried to capture said officers. Not only does Kruge refuse, he grabs Kirk's ankle and earns himself a boot to the face.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A number of aspects of the movie play with this, even though this is science fiction. Spock's katra (speaking through McCoy) asks why Kirk left him on Genesis. The katra has no obvious way of knowing that Spock's body is there, as he was given a standard space burial. That the torpedo casing soft-landed, and that Genesis regenerated Spock's body, come as a surprise even to David and Saavik when they are investigating the planet. This implies that the katra is not merely a bunch of transferred memories, but an actual soul with awareness that its body is still alive. When the Vulcan priestess T'Lar begins the fal-tor-pan ritual, lightning dramatically flashes. This could just be a coincidence of timing and the volatile Vulcan weather, or representative of her doing something with larger metaphysical impact than a simple mind meld.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_cbeb76de	comment	Wacky Sound Effect: Several, when the Excelsior's transwarp drive fails.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: Averted. In the opening credits, there's an extra long pause between William Shatner and DeForest Kelley's names, where Leonard Nimoy's name usually appears.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_cdfe12c3	comment	David getting stabbed has a Nothing Is Scarier feel because of the Gory Discretion Shot.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d1da2c36	comment	Played for Drama as Kirk is almost about to warp away, and the Captain of Excelsior tells him over the communicator, "Kirk, you do this, they'll never let you sit in a captain's chair again." You can see Kirk weigh exactly how much command of a starship means to him versus the life of his best friend, then make the only decision he can. "Warp speed."
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d212ac8b	comment	Subverted with the cool-looking but utterly useless science vessel Grissom, and the Excelsior, which is intended to be an obnoxious too-modern contrast to the good old Enterprise. She gets Rescued from the Scrappy Heap a few movies later when Sulu is in the center seat. While not as popular, the Oberth-Class has a reasonably large fanbase, with some seeing it as a cool little short-range science ship that keeps getting blown up because it keeps ending up in fights it shouldn't be in.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d24b61a8	comment	Patchwork Map: It's actually lampshaded as a sign that something isn't right with the Genesis planet.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d2c4c6f5	comment	Hey, That's My Line!: Bones encounters an alien in a bar with an unusual speaking pattern.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Saavik's reaction to David when he reveals he used protomatter in the Genesis torpedo, in order to solve problems that might not otherwise have made the project possible. This comes out as a result of their discussion as to why the planet is so unstable (disregarding the fact that the planet was created from the Genesis torpedo detonating inside a starship, within a nebula, and created that planet and its star from said nebula, but that doesn't change the impact of this trope).
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_d8f18dad	comment	Withholding Their Name: Kruge refuses to tell Kirk his name.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Probably more of a hyperbole, but an admiral mentions to Kirk that the Enterprise is over 20 years old and given the damage from the last battle was to be decommissioned instead of refurbished. While 20 years old is a round number on when Kirk first took command, established lore indicated the ship was previously captained by Pike and April, even at the time of the film the number should have been well over 30 years. The official date that was given is 2245, almost if not exactly 40 years.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_db30c9d0	comment	Deconstructed in that, while Kruge very well might have killed Maltz, Kirk has no intention to, even though he has every reason to. Maltz's fate is ambiguous. The novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home states that he was able to commit suicide, but he does appear in some expanded universe novels.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_dc1b5212	comment	Sparing the Final Mook: Much to the chagrin of Maltz, the last member of the Klingon crew, Kirk opts to spare him, even though Maltz wishes for nothing more than to die for his failure at that point.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: While Kirk and Kruge are fighting hand to hand on the rapidly disintegrating Genesis planet, Kirk shouts that they'll both die if they don't help each other to escape. Kruge eagerly agrees and calls it exhilarating (since dying while fighting a worthy foe is the most awesome thing a Klingon could ever wish for).
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Bizarrely, the scenes with the Klingons only use it on about half the lines. The Klingon Dictionary notes that it was fashion for a time for Klingon officers to speak English to each other when discussing things they didn't want their subordinates to hear.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_e11e88b6	comment	Like how he was forced to come out of a Thousand-Yard Stare because there was no time to grieve his brother, Kirk has to keep himself from having a breakdown over the loss of his son, because again, thereâ€™s just no time.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: The novel lengthens the Kirk/Sarek scene, with Kirk ripping into Sarek how he and other Vulcans treated Spock awfully thanks to him being half human.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Metatextual example. Kirk actually spends the series as a Rule-Abiding Rebel — Taking Third Options, yes, but not necessarily breaking laws or crossing rules. His reputation within popular culture as a Military Maverick descends almost entirely from his actions in this film — which, given that one of his best friends is dead and the other has become that first friend's Soul Jar and he has to fix it, can be safely described as "outside what's covered by the rules."note (The "Kirk disregards rules" reputation was further cemented with General Chang's description of Kirk during the ST6 courtroom scene: This officer's record shows him to be an insubordinate, unprincipled, career-minded...opportunist! With a history of violating the chain-of-command, whenever it suited him! Chang was purposely (and grossly) exaggerating Kirk's actions to discredit him in front of the Klingon court.)
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Kirk pulls one on Kruge when Kruge pushes him against a rock and starts to choke him.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Shatner versus Lloyd, figuratively and literally. The acting and fight choreography are so over the top that an entire planet is destroyed.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, which might confuse casually watching viewers who see a character named David and identified as Kirk's son die, then 20 minutes later hear Bones identify himself as 'McCoy, Leonard; son of David'.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: The remaining senior crew of the Enterprise assist Kirk in hijacking the Enterprise without question. Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov take it a step further by insisting on going with him and McCoy to the Genesis Planet.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: When his son dies, Kirk struggles to not break down crying, but he manages because thereâ€™s just no time for it, as Spock is down there, Kruge is forcing surrender and they have to blow up the ship.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f566c6dc	comment	Why Isn't It Attacking?: After the Enterprise and the Bird-of-Prey have their initial exchange of torpedo fire, Kruge wonders why the Enterprise doesn't press the attack as they have superior firepower. He then figures out that his attack inflicted more damage than he anticipated.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f6919c77	type	Voices Are Mental
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f6919c77	comment	Voices Are Mental: Spock's personality periodically takes over McCoy, and during those moments McCoy's lines are overdubbed by Leonard Nimoy. To Deforest's credit, he actually does a fairly good impression in the scene in Spock's quarters.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: All the female Vulcan acolytes during the Fal-Tor-Pan ritual are wearing... somewhat sheer outfits, and apparently no bra from the looks of it.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Once Kirk and company hear that Spock could be brought Back from the Dead, they spend the rest of the film endeavoring to do just that.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Kruge can only understand the Genesis Device as a weapon of mass destruction. His paranoid and violent relationship with his crew is the polar opposite of the friendship and loyalty among Kirk's.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_fccd06b6	comment	Another non-fatal example: a hulking security guard calls Sulu "tiny" and tries to intimidate him. Sulu later beats him up.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_fe0330fb	comment	A bit of a Brick Joke also: in Wrath of Khan, after the Kobayashi Maru scenario, Kirk asserts that Klingons do not take prisoners. In this film, Kruge ordered the attack on the Grissom with the specific aim of taking prisoners. Was Kirk asserting that they never take prisoners, or recommending to Saavik to pray for a mercifully quick death? "Prayer, Mr. Saavik, that the Klingons don't take prisoners." It is a bit harsher in hindsight when Saavik is indeed taken prisoner by Klingons only several weeks later.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_fe3dfca8	comment	Kruge's Bird of Prey has more in common style-wise with a Romulan ship (bird-like) versus a Klingon ship (boxy and utilitarian). As a way to use invokedProp Recycling in the original series an episode suggested a brief Klingonâ€“Romulan treaty where they shared technology and ship designs; it allowed them to represent the Romulans by using a (previously made) Klingon D-7 cruiser. This brief alliance (the two factions are later very antagonistic to each other) is also the source of Klingon cloaking technology and the Bird of Prey ship design first seen in this movie. Incidentally, that ship style became far more recognizable as a Klingon vessel later in the franchise.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Exactly What It Says on the Tin / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Explosive Instrumentation / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Flashback Effects / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Flawed Prototype / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Flying Cutlery Spaceship / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Frictionless Reentry / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Friendship Moment / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Genesis Effect / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Give Me a Reason / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Glad He's On Our Side / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Gravity Sucks / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	He Panned It, Now He Sucks! / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	How Many Fingers? / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Am X, Son of Y / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Am Your Opponent / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Lied / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	I Will Find You / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Immediate Sequel / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Indo-European Alien Language / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Ineffectual Death Threats / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Insane Admiral / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Invisibility Cloak / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Invisibility Flicker / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_664b5d51
JamesHorner	seeAlso	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Japan Takes Over the World / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Leave No Survivors / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Legacy Vessel Naming / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Let X Be the Unknown / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Line in the Sand / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Lip Lock / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Little "No" / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Magic Countdown / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Magical Security Cam / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Mega-Microbes / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Mid-Season Upgrade / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Mis-blamed / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Mourning an Object / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Neck Lift / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Neuro-Vault / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	No Man Should Have This Power / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	No Seat Belts / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	No Warping Zone / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Non Sequitur, Thud / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	"Not How I'm Dying" Declaration / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Not Named in Opening Credits / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Now You Tell Me / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Painless Death for a Price / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Patchwork Map / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Planet Spaceship / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Poor Man's Substitute / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Previously onâ€¦ / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Punctuated Pounding / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Rapid Aging / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Reasonable Request Rejected / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Refitted for Sequel / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Renegade Russian / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Repaying for the One / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Restart the World / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Resurrection Sickness / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Right-Hand Attack Dog / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Right-Hand Cat / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Samurai Ponytail / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Flyby / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Scotty Time / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Screaming Warrior / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	See the Invisible / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Self-Destruct Mechanism / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Sentimental Sacrifice / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Sharing a Body / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Short Teens, Tall Adults / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Snow Means Cold / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Space Clothes / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Space Friction / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Sparing the Final Mook / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Spoiled by the Cast List / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Spoiler Cover / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Spoiler Opening / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Staff of Authority / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Status Quo Is God / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Stealth in Space / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Stock Footage / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Stolen MacGuffin Reveal / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Sub Story / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Technology Porn / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Teens Are Short / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The Day the Music Lied / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The Password Is Always "Swordfish" / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The Ruins I Caused / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The Voice / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The World Is Just Awesome / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Theme Music Power-Up / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	This Ain't Rocket Surgery / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	This Is Reality / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	This Is Unforgivable! / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	To Absent Friends / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Touch Telepathy / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Toxic Phlebotinum / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Visible Invisibility / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Wacky Sound Effect / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Watching Troy Burn / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Why Isn't It Attacking? / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Win Back the Crowd / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Wiper Start / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	With Catlike Tread / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Withholding Their Name / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Worf Had the Flu / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Can Turn Back / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Did the Right Thing / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Fool! / int_6270f931
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Monster! / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	You Would Do the Same for Me / int_664b5d51
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	hasFeature	Your Size May Vary / int_664b5d51

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