Khan is a villain. A great villain, that's all.
What's "important" about Wrath Of Khan, the film, is that it's one of the most beautiful films about confronting aging and mortality ever made. Star Trek has always been about ideas and themes, and the 2009 one removed all of that in favour of "explosions" and "make it kinda like star wars." Taking the name and core concept is one thing, but if they take characters, or plots, or lines, or scenes, or whatever it is that they end up 'reusing,' then that's more re-appropriating of elements that served a thematic purpose to simply go OH LOOK REMEMBER THIS.
But for reals WoK is one of the best films ever, fucking watch it before you watch Into Darkness if not just to get what some nerds mean when they say "real" star trek.
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