'Star Trek: Into Darkness' by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof |
While on a routine survey mission to the primitive planet of Nibiru, Captain James T. Kirk breaks the Prime Directive to rescue Spock from a dangerous mission. Returning to Starfleet headquarters, Kirk is stripped of his command and reassigned to the academy. In the U.K., rogue Starfleet officer John Harrison manipulates the father of a dying girl into carrying out a suicide bombing of Starfleet’s Section 31 facility in London; when Starfleet convenes an emergency meeting of its high-ranking officials, Harrison attacks with a gunship, killing many of the attendees, including Admiral Pike. Although Kirk manages to stop the attack, Harrison uses a transwarp beam to escape to the Klingon homeworld of Kronos… Fleet Admiral Marcus reinstates Kirk’s command and sends him on a secret mission to kill Harrison, warning that any complications could trigger a war with the Klingons. Now equipped with seventy-two long-range prototype photon torpedoes, the Enterprise speeds to Kronos, only to experience an engine malfunction, forcing the ship to drop out of warp. Deciding to capture Harrison instead, Kirk takes Spock and Uhura in a captured trader ship to Kronos, but they are intercepted by a squadron of Klingon Birds of Prey and ordered to land for interrogation. They are saved by the arrival of Harrison, who ruthlessly wipes out the Klingon soldiers – but on learning of the torpedoes aimed at him, he then surrenders to Kirk... Back on the Enterprise, Harrison reveals his true identity as Kahn, a genetically augmented superhuman who has been in cryo-sleep for three-hundred years after a failed attempt at ruling the Earth with his followers; Kahn advises Kirk to examine the torpedoes, and then gives him a set of spatial coordinates. The torpedoes are found to contain the sleeping forms of Khan's followers, each in suspended animation, whilst the coordinates lead to the location of a secret military shipyard near Jupiter, where a gigantic battleship, the U.S.S. Vengeance, is under construction. Kahn reveals that Admiral Marcus awoke him to utilise his superior intellect and savagery in developing advanced weaponry, using the sleepers as hostages; Kirk’s entire mission has been a ruse so that Admiral Marcus can provoke a war with the Klingons. Now commanding the U.S.S. Vengeance, Admiral Marcus arrives at Kronos and orders Kirk to hand over Kahn; when Kirk refuses, the admiral announces that he will kill Kirk and his entire crew. To stop Marcus’ insane plan, Kirk must join forces with Kahn – but such a deal with the devil comes at a terrible cost…
Chris Pine (Captain Commander James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Commander Spock), Benedict Cumberbatch (Khan [John Harrison] ), Karl Urban (Lieutenant Commander Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy), John Cho (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Zoe Saldana (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), Alice Eve (Doctor Carol Marcus [Science Officer Carol Wallace]), Anton Yelchin (Ensign Pavel Chekov), Simon Pegg (Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott), Bruce Greenwood (Rear Admiral Christopher Pike), Noel Clarke ( Thomas Harewood), Peter Weller (Admiral Alexander Marcus), Leonard Nimoy (Spock Prime), Felicity Wren (Starfleet Officer), Bruce Greenwood (Admiral Christopher Pike), Jon Lee Brody (Enterprise Crew Security), Christopher Doohan (Transport Officer), Tom Archdeacon (Ensign Spyke), Hiram A. Murray (Bar Patron), Katie Cockrell (Sexy Girl 1), Britanni Johnson (NYU Nurse), Kellie Cockrell (Sexy Girl 2), Elly Kaye (Star Fleet Officer), Gary-7 (The Nibirian Elder), Beau Billingslea (Captain Abbott), Melissa Baldridge (Deck Crew), Gianna Simone (Deck Crew #7), Ser'Darius Blain (Soldier), Jacqueline King (Deck Crew #9 ), Brendan Norman (Enterprise Crew Engineer), Anjini Taneja Azhar (Girl), Alexandra Aristy (Starfleet HQ Staff #2), Ariel D. King (Starfleet Civilian), Omid Zader (Meter Maid), Kasia Kowalczyk (Grasia Alien), Thomas W. Stewart (Enterprise Crew Engineer), Jonathan Dixon (Weapons Officer Neville), Preston Queen (Bar Patron 3), Brent McGee (Enterprise Crew Engineer), Teebone Mitchell (Starfleet HQ Staff #1), Peet Montzingo (Bar Patron 2), David C. Waite (Star Fleet Command), Leni Ford (Cosmoe), Mark Alexander Herz (Enterprise Security #1), Paris Benjamin (Enterprise Crew Engineer), Andy Demetrio (Obs.Deck Crew #6), Mike Kalinowski (Starfleet Officer), Paul K. Daniel (Shuttle Pilot), Ningning Deng (Deck Crew #11), Kraisit Agnew (Nikicha Tomser), Andrew Maiorano (Starfleet HQ Staff #3), Dave Kim (Starfleet Enlisted Soldier), James Tran (Observation Deck Crew #10), Nolan North , Nick Tarabay, Nazneen Contractor, Heather Langenkamp, Joseph Gatt, John Tomkins , Ryan T. Husk (Starfleet Officer)*, Hina Khan (Cadet)*, Bryan Lee (Starfleet Cadet)*, Westley Nguyen (Civilian)*, Kyle Valle (Starfleet Civilian)*
*(Uncredited)
Directed by JJ Abrams
Produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof and Roberto Orci
Co-Producers Tommy Gormley, Tommy Harper and Ben Rosenblatt
Associate Producer Michelle Rejwan
Executive Producers Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake
Released: May 2013
Certificate: 12A
Runtime: 123 min
Notes:
*Featuring Captain Commander James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, Lieutenant Commander Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Lieutenant Nyota, Uhura Ensign Pavel Chekov, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott, Rear Admiral Christopher Pike and ‘Spock Prime’