Khan: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him ‘round the moons of Nibia and ‘round the Antares Maelstrom and ‘round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!
Khan: [quoting from Melville’s Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!
Khan: I’ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet... buried alive! Buried alive...!
Kirk: KHAAANNNN!
[echo]
Kirk: KHAAANNNN!
Sounds a bit like Ahab if you ask me.
Strange, because Kirk didn’t turn into a white whale until the 90s.