Star Trek Into Darkness – 2013
Paramount Pictures
Directed by J.J. Abrams
Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof
Starring John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Peter Weller, Anton Yelchin
Synopsis The USS Enterprise is sent to explore the Class M planet Nibiru. Captain Kirk’s reckless behavior compromises the mission, nearly killing his first officer, Mister Spock. Kirk’s actions almost get him removed from Starfleet. Instead, Kirk is demoted to an academy cadet and has to restart his career. After a two-pronged attack on Starfleet that ends with Pike’s death, Kirk takes command of the Enterprise and heads deep into the neutral zone towards the Klingon homeworld after the terrorist. Unknown to the crew, a Starfleet renegade is manipulating the Federation and the Klingons into a possible war. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the crew must stop the war before it engulfs the Federation and Klingon Empire.
Reviews:
Vulcan Stev – I have long stated that this is an unwanted retread and rehash of The Wrath of Khan. After Paramount and J.J. Abrams went out of their way to reboot the franchise and give it a clean slate in 2009 we were given a rehash of The Wrath of Khan. However it really isn’t a rehash and retread. It is a kit-bashed story that borrows HEAVILY from TWOK. After discussing my misgivings once again with Ashya T’sai, it’s not the fact that the movie borrows heavily from TWOK that makes me dislike aspects of the film, but rather that in the months preceding the release of the film J.J. Abrams promised and promised the film was NOT a remake. In fact Cumberbatch himself stated (Colider Dec 2012) he was not playing Khan but instead a terrorist named John Harrison. After those promises and statements, we then get the TWOK rehash anyway. My thoughts now ten years later. It’s not as bad as I remember but this film WOULD have been MUCH better if the Khan angle had been dropped from the film. Leave everything else in the script the same and drop the Khan, you have a much better film.
Ashya T’Sai – I haven’t watched Star Trek Into Darkness on multiple repeat viewings like my husband. I can see where some elements of The Wrath of Khan were incorporated into this film but it is a good Star Trek film and actually one of my favorites.
Private Black Spartan – A shameless poorly thought out rehash of Wrath of Khan. But, I did enjoy the swap between Kirk and Spock during the death scene.
48 Fan – Of all the Star Trek films, this is definitely one of them.
The Pirate – Benedict Cumberbatch was a really good villain
The Nitpicks
Cold Fusion Bomb? Spock uses ‘cold fusion’ to freeze the volcano. Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature (72 degrees Fahrenheit). Theoretically, it would contrast starkly with the “hot” fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs. Assuming that cold fusion technology is realized by the 23rd century, how does setting off a room-temperature bomb in a volcano freeze the red-hot magma and stop the process?
Volcanoes are part and parcel of any planet with an active crust and multiple tectonic plates. A volcano relieves pressure where the plates are converging or diverging. If one volcano is “frozen” where does all that pressure go? Can Spock calculate and determine how the plate tectonics will readjust and what further damage might be done to the planet?
Why is the Enterprise even on the surface of Nibiru? let only under water? Are the transporters ALL offline? Is EVERY shuttle craft down for repairs? The goal was to rescue the natives WITHOUT being seen, so let’s bring this exceptionally LARGE space vessel down into the atmosphere. Good plan.
There is a large difference in pressurizing the hull of a space vehicle to retain life support against the vacuum of space and pressurizing a vehicle to survive the crushing pressure depths of an ocean (if the Enterprise is 170 meters tall, parts of the Engineering hull will need to be able to withstand 17 atmospheres of pressure). Apparently Starfleet has figured out how to do both at the same time but without adding a paint job that neutralizes salt water corrosion per Scotty’s complaint
Spock is fine with violating the Prime Directive to freeze the volcano but loses it when the natives see the Enterprise, which should have been in orbit in the first place. Logically if one violation of the Prime Directive is acceptable for the mission then all violations for the mission should be acceptable.
Khan/Harrison is supposedly a superior tactician due to his genetically altered intellect. In the Wrath of Khan, Kirk is only able to defeat him because he is inexperienced in three dimensional combat. Why then did Harrison/Khan use his blood to save Starfleet officer, Thomas Harewood’s daughter and then have him drop the explosive into a glass of water to destroy the Section 31 installation in London? That’s taking a lot of chance and risk, what if when proposed with this opportunity Harewood called Starfleet Security instead? What if he pretended to go along with Harrison/Khan, let H/K cure his daughter first and then informed Starfleet Security? We’re supposed to believe the ‘Superior Intellect’ left all this to chance? Can’t Harrison/Khan with his superior intellect blow up Section 31 installation on his own?
Section 31? Section 31? Suddenly this “Ultra Secret” off the books clandestine spy cartel of the Federation is known to that many people? In Picard’s time of the main timeline Sisko doesn’t even believe they exist when Doctor Bashir tells his commanding officer about his contact with Sloan.
Admiral Marcus’ Starship Models The Admiral has starship design lineage models on display in his office, which includes the Vengeance as the latest model. He has a top secret starship openly on display?
It has been one year since the destruction of Vulcan. In that year. Admiral Marcus has found the Botany Bay, Khan’s ship, adrift in space. Khan is put on speed defrost and has a super secret identity created for him by Marcus. Marcus then enlists Harrison/Khan’s help to develop an Unnecessarily Large Starship and all kinds of weapons. Said ULS is built and launched. All of this is done in just twelve months? This amount of completed work is absurd, considering that Section 31 is a secret organization that as far as we know has never built ships. Ship building and weapons development need the necessary logistics and people. Also, with that many people working on the various projects, how do you keep it all secret?
Kirk’s punishment for his violations is to be stripped of his command and sent back to the Academy. He stays at the Academy for all of five minutes before he is reinstated as Pike’s First Officer. Pike must’ve had a LOT of pull to accomplish that. Then Pike is killed and Kirk is suddenly Captain again. Yeah, I bet Kirk REALLY learned his lesson.
Not a Nit! I had a correspondence with Dan S. who thinks it’s a large coincidence that the only person Marcus unfroze on the Botany Bay was Harrison/Khan. Marcus, being an Admiral had access to the same expertise Kirk in the prime timeline had with Lieutenant McGivers. Therefore, having Khan be the one who is unfrozen is not so farfetched. What is the nit here is that Khan, a master strategist couldn’t convince Marcus to unfreeze the rest of his crew.
Not a Nit! 2 Dan S. also has a problem with Khan’s ability to invent new technology in the 23rd century after having been frozen in 1996? (or later, thank you Strange New Worlds for clarifying that Khan was only a child ca 2023). Not a problem either. Khan in the prime timeline was able to familiarize himself with Starfleet technology just by reading Mr Scott’s technical manuals. Again, not a problem.
Why does Admiral Marcus casually reveal that the target of the ‘terrorist’ bombing was not an information archive but rather a Section 31 facility to Kirk and Spock? Why do Kirk and Spock, who really would have no knowledge about the secretive organization, not have confused looks on their faces? Why would he cast doubt over his good story, that a Starfleet member is running amuck for unknown reasons, by revealing that he himself is involved in mysterious secret Starfleet operations that Harrison/Khan knows about?
After the destruction of the Section 31 facility, wouldn’t the leading officers of Starfleet hold a crisis meeting in a secure location that is protected by walls not windows, force fields, armed security guards, secure air space, air patrols and other security measures? It’s a bit of a stretch that Harrison/Khan is able to circumvent the security that SHOULD have been there.
Qo’noS, Why Qo’nos? Why does Harrison/Khan hide on Qo’noS of all places in the universe? It’s Marcus’s goal is to incite a war with the Klingons. Is Harrison/Khan working with Marcus? If so, why go to (eventual) hostile territory? If not, why give Marcus a reason to attack the Klingons unless he also wants a war with the Klingons. But what beef does Harrison/Khan have with the Klingons?
Harrison/Khan’s Plan? or lack thereof
What is Harrison/Khan’s plan or endgame? It’s stated in the film that Harrison/Khan and Marcus were working together to develop superior weaponry. Let’s assume that Harrison/Khan was using Marcus and planned to eventually take the USS Vengeance and its weapons for himself. If that it his ultimate endgame, Harrison/Khan is NOT the Master Strategist he thinks he is.
Harrison/Khan takes the long distance torpedoes he developed for Admiral Marcus, removes the torpedo guts and puts his frozen friends in them. Then Harrison/Khan has the Section 31 facility in London blown up by a third party after he has moved his freezer buddy torpedoes to some undisclosed location. Why? to stunt Marcus’s development of advanced weapons that could be used against him after his coup? Or was the destruction of the Section 31 facility meant to kick off the protocol meeting of high-ranking Starfleet officers?
Harrison/Khan then flies a fully armed fighter shuttle right up to the windows of the meeting room and shoots seemingly at random into the meeting. It seems the only goals of this random firing is to kill Pike, make Kirk a Captain again, scare Marcus, and leave a trail to his hideout on Q’onoS knowing that Marcus would order Kirk (an impulsive Captain prone to disobeying orders) after Harrison/Khan with Harrison/Khan’s freeze buddy / torpedoes in the armory to be used against him errr.. delivered to Khan with a nice little bow. Master Strategist Harrison/Khan leaves to much to chance for this plan to work, let alone make sense. To whit…
- Harrison/Khan is taking a big risk that no one noticed that he switched torpedo guts for the cryotubes containing his freezer buddies.
- If Admiral Marcus is really distrusting Harrison/Khan and using the freezer buddies as leverage against Harrison/Khan, HOW did Harrison/Khan get them out from under Marcus’ control and into the torpedoes in the first place?
- If Harrison/Khan was able to surreptitiously get access to his freezer buddies to put them in the torpedoes, why not defrost them there and go hijack the Vengeance? Why go through all this trouble just to hopefully gain access to them again at later date.
- There was just an attack on a Starfleet facility on Earth by ‘parties unknown’. Why is the Admiralty meeting so undefended? Harrison/Khan is able to fly an uncloaked ship right up to building and open fire on an unshielded meeting room? Someone at Starfleet Security needs to be fired.
- Why does Admiral Marcus send EVERY LAST ONE of the new torpedoes after Harrison/Khan on the Enterprise. You’d think he would have kept some on the Vengeance and some in a secure location elsewhere in reserve.
Harrison/Khan is betting the lives of his freezer buddies on several factors he has no control over; that Marcus will send a ship armed with all 72 of the torpedoes to Q’onoS, that the Captain of the ship will fire all 72 torpedoes at his position, that the Klingons will not intercept and destroy said ship, and that the cryotubes will survive warp flight and land softly on Q’onoS’ surface again without alerting the Klingons. Master Strategist, my furry tribble’s backside.
Scotty resigns because no one will let him look at the torpedo technology and he can verify that it won’t bring harm to the Enterprise or it’s crew. That actually makes sense. But his replacement is Chekov? Chekov is a navigator, there is NO ONE else in ALL of Engineering qualified to take over for Mr. Scott?
Carol Marcus. She seems to only be there to remind the audience that they’re watching a ripoff of Star Trek II. I thought they might at least use her as a romantic interest for Kirk, but other than him ogling her in her underwear (a completely unnecessary scene), there was practically nothing suggesting they might have a romantic relationship. Nor was the much else for her to do in the film.
Why did Marcus order the Enterprise after Harrison/Khan? Why not just beam a contingent of Starfleet Marines to Q’onoS. Scotty “invented” long distance beaming in Star Trek 2009. Also, Marcus has the torpedoes, he has the Vengeance ready for launch, and he plans to launch the Vengeance anyway. Why give the torpedoes to Kirk? Why place the success of your mission on a Captain and Ship KNOWN for violating orders to do what is right? Oh yes, he’s hoping the Enterprise will be destroyed by the Klingons.
If beaming from star system to star system is now perfected a thing, why is the Federation spending resources on Unnecessarily Large Starships? As opposed to fully armed Beaming Point Forts?
This isn’t your Daddy’s Enterprise. The K’normian ship does not leave the Enterprise through the big shuttlebay door, but through some never seen before lateral hatch. Side doors on the shuttlebay? I realize this is a different universe but who thinks that putting a side door on the Enterprise’s shuttlebay is a good idea?
Praxis? We can see a half destroyed celestial body in or on the edge of the Klingon territory. Could this be Praxis? If it is, the moon has exploded about forty years ahead of the Prime Time line. Why would the difference in Federation history affect production on Praxis causing the destruction 40 years too soon? If it isn’t Praxis, do the Klingons make a habit of over mining their moons every 40 years or so?
Ridges? The Klingon who takes off his mask in “Star Trek Into Darkness” has forehead ridges (see my 2010 article about Forehead ridges and continuity). This universe diverged from the Prime timeline in 2233. Klingons should be smooth-headed at this time (ENT: “Divergence” S4 Ep16). According to that episodes, the antivirus that was created from human Augment genes and genetically altered generations of Klingons to look like humans in 2154 or 2155. Bumps didn’t begin to reappear until Star Trek the Motion picture (2273). Changing Federation history shouldn’t have that much affect on Klingon history. Granted, this one Klingon may be an exception, but we never saw an exception among the dozens of Klingons we see in TOS.
The Klingons do nothing after their patrol ships have been destroyed by Khan. They don’t shoot down the K’normian vessel as it leaves Qo’noS. Neither do they pursue it and find the Enterprise. Hardly a warrior race, and hardly a threat to the Federation!
On Qo’noS, Harrison/Khan surrenders immediately when he learns that the Enterprise is carrying exactly 72 top secret torpedoes. Calling again into question just what IS Harrion/Khan’s plan, it was clearly a surprise to him that the torpedoes were aboard the Enterprise. Now he sees a chance to save his crew. Just what did the Master Strategist have planned?
Harrison/Khan built those torpedoes, and he managed to keep the interior a total secret? How would he explain the empty space that he designed just large enough to hold the cryonic chambers? Agreed, he probably claimed it was for extra fuel or extra explosive charges. But then he builds 72 of them, the exact number of freezer buddies that were with him on the Botany Bay. No one flagged this during development? “Hey Admiral, why does this empty space in the torpedo correspond to the exact dimensions of cryotubes? And why are we building exactly the same number as those cryotubes we have in the freezer?”
Kirk is questioning his new prisoner and while explaining his past, his true identity, the camera zooms in, a long dramatic pause, “My name is Khan.” So what? Spock in the prime time line states that records from the late 20th century are fragmentary at best. Kirk and Spock would have no reason to react to the revelation. Not unless one or both of them have been exhaustively studying the fragmentary records of the late 20th/early 21st century. The only reasons for ‘Harrison’ to reveal his true identity is for audience shock reaction and Spock now has a reason to call Spock Prime.
Kirk discovers that the Harrison identity has existed for just one year according to Starfleet’s records. Admiral Marcus took the effort to force Khan to work for him and change his appearance (he looks nothing like Ricardo Montalban) all so this super genius could build an Unnecessarily Large Starship and all kinds of weapons. And yet the Admiral didn’t provide the key figure of his conspiracy with a credible bio that predates the time when the Botany Bay and Khan were originally found?
Khan urges Kirk to open one of the torpedoes, most likely to determine if his crew are still contained inside. However Khan does not bother telling Kirk how to circumvent the lock mechanisms. The torpedo that McCoy and Carol Marcus open almost goes off. If it had it would have killed the Augment inside. Since Khan cares for his crew, would he take the risk of Kirk or his crew accidentally killing one?
Marcus’s original plan was to have the Enterprise eliminate Khan on Qo’noS for reasons. But why would he want to destroy the Enterprise? Was the sabotage done so that successful or not, Marcus could eliminate them? Why? Marcus states a war with the Klingons is unavoidable. If Starfleet’s rearmament has just begun, is now a good time to start a war? If rearmament has just begun, why destroy another Starfleet ship that could go to battle against the Klingons? If Marcus thought he needed to eliminate them because Kirk and his crew would discover his criminal activities, why not sabotage life support and leave the ship intact?
Scotty says that the people onboard the Vengeance are “private security”. Private Security? on a Starfleet vessel? We are asked to believe that Admiral Marcus has NO hand-picked officers who wanted to join him on his illegal quest for war with the Klingons. We also asked to believe that Admiral Marcus has mercenaries and minions like a James Bond villain? Well, whatever they are, the “private security” is pretty crappy, Scotty was able to waltz right on board Marcus’ Unnecessarily Large secret Starship project.
If the Enterprise really measures 725m [2378.6 feet] long (The most internally to the films consistent and official size), then the Vengeance is just shy of one mile in length (1575m 5167.3 feet) The Kelvin was 624m long (but that’s a nit for Star Trek 2009). If the divergence in the timeline was Nero attacking the Kelvin, why did Starfleet stop making such huge ships in the prime timeline and keep making them in the Kelvin timeline? Not to beat a dead horse (err keep picking the same nit) but if beaming planet to planet is a bona fied, workable technology , WHY is Starfleet expending the resources to make these Unnecessarily Large Starships?
New Spock decides to call Spock Prime and ask for advice when Spock Prime has told him before that knowledge of the future could have disastrous unforeseen outcomes. Then after repeatedly denying New Spock access to knowledge of the future, Prime Spock gives in at the mention of Khan’s name. Wow, it is so fortunate that Harrison/Khan decided to reveal his true identity.
Shouldn’t new Spock have contacted Starfleet, reporting Marcus’s treason and his attack on the Enterprise instead of calling Spock Prime? Nope, talking to Spock Prime was on top of his priority list.
Automatic Coolness Protocol When the USS Vengeance pops out of warp it is VERY close to the Enterprise. So close in fact that a portion of the Vengeance’s saucer section overlaps the Enterprise’s saucer section. First THAT is some AMAZING piloting to get that close to another ship when coming out of warp. Second when the camera angle changes the two ships are much further apart. Starfleet must have some kind of Automatic Coolness Protocol that automatically repositions ships relative to each in space.
Just before the final battle in the Sol (Earth) system, The Enterprise is violently kicked out of warp smack dab in the middle of said star system, 20,000 kilometers from the Moon’s surface. Wasn’t anyone keeping tabs on how close to home the ship was getting? Who plotted the warp course to come between Earth and the Moon? If only there was a trained NAVIGATOR on the bridge.
If Chekov had been on the bridge instead of trying to be an engineer, he could have informed the Captain they were close to Earth, dropped out of warp and left Marcus to zip past them at Ludicrous Speed and into next week.
This nit is endemic to nearly every single Star Trek film. Where is Starfleet? The Enterprise and the Vengeance are battling it out in the Sol System within spitting distance of Earth and there no other ships nearby? No space docks? no orbital defense grid? Pike was tortured by Nero in the previous film for the access codes to Earth’s defense grid. Where are all of Earth’s defenses as the Vengeance comes crashing down on San Francisco?
Speaking of Starfleet, even if there is no other ship in the sector (as usual in the movies) was no one monitoring Starfleet frequencies? Nobody noticed that Admiral Marcus was firing on a crippled Starfleet vessel between Earth and the Moon.
The 72 torpedoes are apparently stored aboard the Enterprise behind individual hatches from where they can be launched. What happened to photon torpedo tubes with a conveyor belt? Why the regress to “cannon decks” like on the HMS Enterprise? What brain-dead engineer decided this cannon deck needs to be that close to Engineering? Engines and the weapons should be further apart given how big this Enterprise is.
Khan says: “Your crew requires oxygen to survive, mine does not. I will target your life support systems located behind the aft nacelle and after every single person aboard your ship suffocates, I will walk over your cold corpses to recover my people. Now… shall we begin?” Aft Nacelle? The Enterprise has two nacelles, one port side and the other starboard, though both are (kind of) located aft. That said there is nothing but open space behind the nacelles. Khan is too smart to mistake the nacelle for the struts holding them in place. If Khan is correct, who put Life Support inside the nacelle? Wouldn’t you want Life Support in a more accessible spot, like say Main Engineering?
How did the two ships, which were damaged and floating in space between Earth and the Moon, end up falling into Earth’s atmosphere? Yes it was Khan’s intention to crash the ship into the planet. But if there were any power available at all, Kirk would have avoided Earth rather than fly towards Earth’s gravity well. Perhaps Earth’s gravity well is stronger in the 23rd century.
There isn’t any way to rescue the crew of the Enterprise as it falls towards Earth? Yes the shuttles are getting wrecked and transporters are probably offline. None of the escape pods are working? Earth doesn’t have any operational transporters?
We’ve got to admire the safety features built into the Vengeance. Khan was able to survive plummeting through the atmosphere and crash landing into San Fransisco Bay.
We can’t beam Khan up to the Enterprise from Earth because he is moving too fast on a ground transport, ok it’s plausible that he’s moving to fast to get a transporter lock. However the traffic is moving slow enough that we can beam Spock and Uhura to Khan’s location. Someone explain how this works.
Why is the Vengeance so big? Khan kept making a point about it needing only a skeleton crew, even a crew of one if need be. So why was it so big? It was clearly designed only for war, so it didn’t need a massive cargo bay, science labs, recreation areas, or other things starships tend to have.
During the the final battle gravity is asserting itself in the wrong places. Gravity is produced on Starship by way of gravity plating. If the gravity plating has been damaged and the ship is free falling towards Earth, everyone should be “weightless” in free fall. Something has damaged the gravity plating so it malfunctions and Scotty begins to fall and Kirk grabs him. Then Kirk is also affected by the unexpected gravity and begins to fall. Fortunately Chekov grabs Kirk and is able to rescue them both. Chekov must be working out as he is able to save both his Captain and Chief Engineer. He doesn’t LOOK that ripped.
We will not mention the entire bit of Kirk saving the Enterprise being a scene-by-scene replica of Star Trek II to the point of parody. La la la la I can’t hear you.
So Khan has magic blood that will reanimate deceased lifeforms. Why the big rush to get Khan back? Aren’t there 72 other folks with the same magic blood on board in cryostasis.
McCoy is a doctor and a scientist. What made him think that injecting Khan’s blood into a dead tribble was a good idea for a science experiment? And just because Khan’s blood revived a tribble, let’s jump immediately to human trials. Yeah good thinking there Doc.
Isn’t it against medical ethics to extract the blood against Khan’s will to save Kirk (see Worf’s refusal to save the Romulan in TNG: The Enemy)?
Death is becoming a moot point in the Star Trek Universe. We now have magic augment blood to add to the Nexus (Star Trek Generations), the conditions of the Briar Patch (Star Trek Insurrection), Scotty’s 70-year transporter stasis (TNG: Relics), Transporter DNA rejuvenation (TNG: Unnatural Selection), placing one’s consciousness into an android body (TNG: Schizoid Man and Picard season one), and although it was a transporter accident, it no doubt is being studied by Section 31, reverting to childhood with all adult memories intact (TNG: Rascals).
Earlier in the film Scotty is able to stun Harrison/Khan with a single shot from a phaser. Now Uhura can’t bring him down without multiple shots? Either Uhura doesn’t know how to use a phaser or making Khan angry makes him stronger.
The five year mission. One of the characters says no ship has ever been on a five year mission before. Really? No other ship? Heck, the NX-01 while maybe not technically on a five year mission certainly approximated the essence of what the five year mission is and that was a century before the events of this movie. Surely other starships have ventured out into deep space for extended periods.
At the end of the episode Space Seed, Kirk maroons Khan, Lt. McGivers, and the rest of the augmented Khan followers on Ceti Alpha IV. Where does Khan go at the end of this film? Prison? Stasis? Is Starfleet Medical keeping him locked up as a magic blood supplier?
AT the beginning of the film we are told the Federation is on the brink of war with the Klingons. Harrison/Khan beams from the Federation to Q’onoS and dozens of Klingons are killed by Starfleet weapons. The Klingons didn’t bother to attack while the Enterprise was being rebuilt? Things have calmed down enough that the Enterprise is going out on a five-year mission of exploration? Killing those few Klingons and having cross-galaxy planet to planet beaming must be enough to keep the Klingons cowed enough to stay away.
One last thought, The Wrath of Khan (which this film borrows lavishly from) worked because of the history the characters had with each other. Khan blaming Kirk for the death of his wife and the exile because Kirk never bothered to check up on Khan and crew in the intervening years. Spock’s sacrifice worked because the needs of his friends and family outweighed his need for survival. Kirk’s reaction to the death of Spock was genuine. Into Darkness copied the answers and still managed to get it mostly wrong. The Kelvin-verse crew hasn’t had enough time together to warrant a “Wrath of Khan”. This early in their time together, a re-imagining of one of the TOS episodes would’ve made more sense.
This whole film would’ve been MUCH better if Marcus had found Khan’s sleeper ship, botched the reawakening because of the altered timeline but was able to reverse engineer the genetic augmentations and Harrison and Company were Section 31 volunteers. Then Into Darkness wouldn’t have felt like JJ Abrams and Alex Kurtzman cribbed the entire film from Nicholas Meyers without giving him screen credit.
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