As a gene-doped super-spy, he had to inject two pills (or "chems") daily, to promote higher pain thresholds and greater physical strength and mental intelligence.The blood washes away in little rivers.Then the sound stops..." The two went to another cabin, began kissing and undressing, and proceeded to make passionate love - to candlelight, in one of the lower bunks.However, the film was not nominated for a single Academy Award, in a year when the short romantic dramaMarty (1955)unaccountably won the Best Picture Oscar.To aid Spock, Uhura beam-transported herself to their location, and stunned Khan with repeated phaser stun-blasts.)In the late 1960s, the film""s sympathetic, revolutionary characters and its social criticism appealed to anti-authority American youth who were part of the counter-cultural movement protesting the Vietnam War, the corrupt social order, and the U.