10 Movie Scenes Everyone Gets Wrong

10. The "Khan!" Scene Isn't William Shatner Overacting - Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

If you look up "overacting" in the dictionary, you'll rightly find a picture of William Shatner, but his most widely-mocked bout of scenery-chewing actually isn't at all. Or at least, not in the way so many people think.

Even people who've never seen a single episode of Star Trek might be familiar with Captain Kirk's (Shatner) infamous "Khaaaan!" scream in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Kirk bleats the legendary villain's name in hilariously exaggerated fashion after Khan (Ricardo Montalbán) leaves him marooned on the planetoid Regula.

To the inobservant observer, this is simply Shatner hamming up his performance for the cheap seats in the most meme-worthy fashion.

But that's not really what's happening here. It's Kirk who is overacting, given that he knows full well that he and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) have set a trap for Khan, but he can't give any inkling of this, and so plays the part of being absolutely incensed just as Khan would expect.

Make no mistake, Shatner does plenty of overacting elsewhere throughout the movie, but in the scene he's been so regularly indicted for? Absolutely not.