Non-spoilery review of the first 9 minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness

[ayaneva]

Tonight, Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot screened for press the nine-minute IMAX prologue to J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness. ComingSoon.net was on hand to take a first look at the footage and will be heading to Bad Robot tomorrow for more information. In the meantime, Abrams himself has requested that we keep specific details of the

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[kiwicoy]

OK I have to admit I was pretty disappointed with the movie title, synopsis and poster... But the trailers are making me feel much better about it. I NEVER SHOULD HAVE DOUBTED YOU JJ!

So excited for May 16 I could die... I love and hate how well they are keeping the story under wraps.

[ayaneva]

With regard to JJ, I learned my lesson the first time around that I should just let him do his thing and I trust him. I was the biggest holdout on the 2009 movie. Like I refused to get on board until after filming had already finished and even then it took a detailed explanation about how they incorporated quantum mechanics before I was satisfied that I could stretch my imagination a bit and accept that explanation. Then I was skeptical of Chris Pine and, well, pretty much everyone else in the cast. Opening night came and I was blown away (I still cry over George and Winona Kirk lol) and vowed to never doubt JJ Abrams again because I was SO wrong the first time around. LOL

[britt_m_89]

Omg so excited!

[ayaneva]

icon love! He was amazing as Richard II. (that is Ben Whishaw, right?)

[britt_m_89]

Yes it is :) You need to go see Skyfall. It's amazing.

[ayaneva]

I've heard it is! I may have to wonder out to see it. I don't get out to the movies much. Just on special occasions (like Star Trek, Avengers, or Harry Potter or something).

[hellolittledear]

so like
will anybody ever know who the villain is or

[evil_duck]

Nope. We'll get to the end of the film and be like "so who did Cumberflaps actually play?"

[binary_pixie]

you joke but it was almost halfway through the 1st movie when my friend whom was seeing it for the first time turned to me and declared 'Of course, Romulans! I had no idea who these people were supposed to be'

[anivad]

that sounds exactly like something JJ would do

[shadowesque13]

Ffff I still want this very much so oh my god okay ALL OF THE INTERNAL SCREAMING nothing can prepare my body even further.

[haikitteh]

I'm feeling a bit hopeful with the info that it'll be a "fun Star Trek adventure" - because I was worried after the first trailer that it would be really dark and negative. A film full of threats and explosions doesn't appeal much to me.

To analyze the intro, without synopsizing for those who don't want spoilers, it does lead me towards the Khan/Eugenics theme. [Spoiler]Just the clue that he has the ability to help a medical condition when other science has failed? Sounds more like Khan than Garth or Gary Mitchell.

[kiwicoy]

[Spoilery Speculation]Could the child be a descendant of Khan?

[haikitteh]

Yeah I saw somewhere speculation about that. There is even a canon son that he could be playing, and there's still been no word about who Peter Weller is playing.

[myselfdestruct]

I found it curious that Peter Weller was not in the trailer at all. But then I realized that Chekov was not in the trailer so I can't read too much into that.