Star Trek Teaser: "Into Darkness" Trailer Released

By Nancy Atkinson - December 6, 2012 at 4:15 PM UTC | Site News
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James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise will be back for a second pre-quel of the young original Enterprise crew with next summer's "Star Trek Into Darkness." From this new teaser trailer just released today, it certainly looks dark, with lots of explosions, fight scenes, women screaming, Chris Pine's Kirk having omnipresent cuts on his face, and what looks like a starship falling into an ocean.

The description of the film on the

IMDb website

:

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

The bad guy (actor Benedict Cumberbatch) has a British accent (wasn't that big in the 1960's?) and rumors are starting to surface with Cumberbatch playing either a villain similar to the classic 'Trek' nemesis Gary Mitchell, who gains glassy eyes and superpowers and tries to take over the world in the second pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" for the 60's TV series,

or

Khan, the genetically-engineered tyrant who first appeared in the original Trek TV series episode "Space Seed" but was killed in the "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan" movie. So, in my mind, revisiting Khan would would cause the Trek world to get complicated.

But while the villain hasn't yet been revealed, it is someone who "has returned," so expect it to be a familiar name.

From the teaser, it appears all the main actors from the 2009 "Star Trek" film have returned, but does Spock have a new haircut?

A disclaimer: this was posted for all our Trek fans, so don't complain that this isn't space or astronomy news, because in our Trekkie minds it

is

space news.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

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