Khan Noonien Singh (Alternate Timeline)

Khan Noonien Singh is the main antagonist of Star Trek Into Darkness. He is an extremely intelligent, ruthless terrorist, and a genetically engineered human being.

He is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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This version of Khan's backstory was the same as his prime reality counterpart's, until the destruction of Vulcan in 2258 changed the latter's future that led to the events of the movie from that point on.

Vulcan's destruction led Admiral Alexander Marcus of Section 31 to began a plan to militarize Starfleet, and he searched the galaxy for weapons to be used in a potential war with the Klingons. Discovering the SS Botany Bay , Marcus brought Khan out of stasis, believing his savage intellect would give him an advantage. Khan was then recruited into Starfleet under the new identity of Commander John Harrison, and tasked with designing weapons and ships for Starfleet, including the Dreadnought -class USS Vengeance .

The prequel comic Star Trek: Khan explains more reasons why Khan betrayed Marcus and how his ethnicity changed. When Khan was discovered, Marcus arranged for Khan's face and voice to be reconstructed from their Indian origins to a more Northern European origin. The admiral also had Khan's memory blocked with the intent of convincing him that he was John Harrison, a Starfleet researcher in London's Kelvin Memorial Archive who lost his memories in an accident during a failed mission to Qo'nos, the Klingon homeworld.

Harrison is later given the task of helping advise Section 31 on possible enhancements to Starfleet weapon, shield, and propulsion technology (which is to be incorporated aboard the USS Vengeance ) as well as taking on a mission to destroy Praxis with the help of a portable transporter he designed and built. The mission is a success (explaining the destroyed moon seen in orbit of the Klingon homeworld in the film) but, in the process, Khan regains his memories.

Disgruntled by everything that has happened to him, Harrison tried to smuggle his crew away in experimental photon torpedoes he himself had designed, but was discovered and forced to flee alone. Believing Marcus had killed his crew, he coerced Section 31 agent Thomas Harewood into betraying Starfleet by offering a blood transfusion for Harewood's terminally-ill daughter. Harewood agreed, and Harrison replaced Harewood's Starfleet ring with a bomb. After his daughter was cured with a vial of Harrison's blood, Harewood went to work at his office in the Kelvin Memorial Archive, where he dropped the false Starfleet ring into a glass of water, igniting a bomb and destroying the facility. In the midst of the chaos, Harrison used the opportunity to inspect a salvaged terminal to gain Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott's transwarp beaming equation.

Before he set off the explosion at the archive, Harewood sent Marcus a message, explaining he had been threatened by Harrison. Marcus called a summit at the Daystrom Institute, ordering a manhunt for Harrison. During the meeting, James T. Kirk deduced that Harrison had not left Earth because he was aware that protocol would dictate that a meeting like this one would be held at that location. Harrison suddenly appeared in a jumpship and attacked the conference, injuring many and killing Admiral Christopher Pike. Kirk disabled the jumpship, but Harrison beamed himself away before it crashed. Later, Scott contacted Kirk and Commander Spock to inform them that Harrison had beamed himself to the one place Starfleet couldn't follow: Qo'noS. Undeterred, Kirk was granted permission by Marcus to travel to Qo'noS and fire 72 experimental photon torpedoes on Harrison's location. However, at the behest of Spock, Kirk decided to arrest Harrison and bring him back to Earth to stand trial for his crimes.

While Kirk led an away team with Spock, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, and Hendorff, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, in temporary command of the USS Enterprise , transmitted a message to Harrison on Qo'noS, warning him to surrender or be destroyed by the torpedoes. Moments later, Harrison found Kirk, Spock, and Uhura being attacked by a Klingon patrol and single-handedly killed the patrol. Confronting the Starfleet officers, Harrison asked how many torpedoes the Enterprise had aboard. After Spock informed him of the count, which corresponded exactly to the number of his Botany Bay crewmembers still in stasis, Harrison surrendered to the landing party. Kirk, angry that his mentor's murderer had saved them, punched Harrison repeatedly, but was unable to render him unconscious.

Once aboard the Enterprise , Harrison was placed in the ship's brig. Dr. Leonard McCoy took a blood sample to uncover the secret behind Harrison's superhuman strength and abilities. Harrison refused to answer Kirk's questions, instead giving him coordinates to a spacedock near Jupiter where the Vengeance was constructed, and suggested that Kirk open one of the torpedoes. Kirk contacted an absent Scott and gave him the coordinates to investigate, while Dr. McCoy and Dr. Carol Marcus opened up a torpedo and discovered a cryogenically-frozen man within.

When Kirk and Spock confronted him with what they discovered, Khan finally explained who he was to Kirk, revealing that the torpedoes contained his fellow surviving Augments as part of a cover-up. Not long afterward, Marcus arrived aboard the Vengeance and demanded that Kirk hand over Khan. Kirk refused and ordered the Enterprise to warp back to Earth so Khan could be brought to trial. The Vengeance caught up with the Enterprise and fired on it as it arrived in Earth's solar system. Marcus then beamed up Carol and prepared to destroy the Enterprise ; fortunately for the Enterprise , Scott, who had sneaked aboard the Vengeance , deactivated its weapons.

Kirk and Khan then performed a space-jump to the Vengeance . Meanwhile, Spock consulted Spock Prime, his older counterpart from the prime reality, regarding whether he ever encountered Khan in the past; Spock Prime responded that he had, that Khan was dangerous, and that it had required a great sacrifice to stop him.

Aboard the Vengeance , Kirk, suspicious of Khan, told Scott to stun him once they had taken over the Vengeance' s bridge. When the three of them arrived on the bridge, Scott shot Khan while Kirk admonished Marcus for compromising the Federation. However, Khan was not easily subdued, and he attacked Scott and Kirk and broke Carol's leg before crushing her father's skull with his bare hands before her very eyes. Khan then contacted the Enterprise and ordered Spock to hand over the torpedoes or he would resume bombarding the Enterprise . Spock agreed, and Khan beamed Kirk, Scott, and Carol back aboard the Enterprise , but reneged on his deal with Spock. However, Spock, having predicted Khan's betrayal following his talk with Spock Prime, detonated the torpedoes, crippling the Vengeance . Khan cried out in anguish at the apparent loss of his crew (in actuality, Spock had earlier ordered McCoy to remove the stasis pods from the torpedoes much to Kirk's disgust due to Khan now angrier than ever).

The damage sustained caused both ships to be drawn in by Earth's gravitational pull. To prevent the Enterprise from crashing into San Francisco, Kirk sacrificed himself while re-activating the ship's warp core. Khan, on the other hand, directed the Vengeance on a crash course for Starfleet Headquarters, though the ship's computer informed him the ship would not hit its target. When the Vengeance crashed into San Francisco, Khan leaped down from the wreckage and posed as a shocked survivor.

Moments later, Spock beamed down to execute Khan and avenge Kirk's death. An exciting chase ensues, with Spock pursuing the superhuman onto automated flying barges. A climactic fight erupts between the two, which Khan gradually wins. Uhura beamed down, firing several stun shots to weaken Khan and revealed to Spock that they needed Khan alive to save Kirk (McCoy had just discovered that Khan's blood possessed regenerative properties). Spock finally knocked Khan out.

After his blood was used to revive Kirk, Khan was placed back in suspended animation with his crew.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan vs. Star Trek Into Darkness, Compared

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It's difficult to compare two different films from different decades, especially as far as which one is "better" than the other. In the case of the Star Trek franchise, there are two films based on the same story but share very little else in common.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a beloved sci-fi classic that sees Kirk's old adversary, Khan Noonien-Singh, return to hunt down and destroy the man that left him to rot on a dying planet years before.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a loose adaptation of that Khan storyline, which sees the feared warrior wage a solo war against Starfleet for the kidnapping and assumed death of his crew.

Both films are vastly different when it comes to tone, with Into Darkness being J.J. Abrams' attempt to bring Khan Noonien-Singh into a newer, more modern era of Star Trek movies.

Which one is better, the 1982 original or the 2013 remake? Here's our comparison of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan versus Star Trek Into Darkness and how they fare together.

Overall Direction

Most people today know about J.J. Abrams, but they aren't familiar with the career work of Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . For that reason alone, most tend to side with Abrams as the superior sci-fi storyteller.

But when you pit both films side-by-side, Meyer's work can't be underestimated. He managed to create a sense of tension throughout the film without ever having Khan and Kirk meet one another in person.

Meyer drew exquisite performances from his leading actors, with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at their very best under Meyer's delicate direction. Meanwhile, Ricardo Montalbán's Ahab-like madness gave the Enterprise their greatest threat—and an impressive adversarial chest.

On the other hand, Abrams leaned on Meyer's work enough that Into Darkness can be called a remake, but not so much that it can be considered a rip-off. He made a strong hire in Benedict Cumberbatch to replace Montalbán in the role of Khan.

On balance, Meyer did a better job in the director's chair than Abrams. He managed to find a way to work with the egos of his actors—who all knew their roles inside out—while creating a tale that made Star Trek feel like a work of classic literature.

Khan's Portrayal

The silliest part about both Ricardo Montalbán and Benedict Cumberbatch portraying Khan is that neither have Indian heritage.

Montalbán is South American while Cumberbatch is British, meaning neither should have been handed the role in the first place. However, with that aside, how well did each one actually do in the role?

The two actors draw entirely different performances from the material they found in their scripts: Montalbán had a more Shakespearean take on the character than the more terrorist-minded Cumberbatch.

Looking back at Montalbán's Khan, he's an impressive warlord who seeks revenge against Kirk for abandoning him and his crew on a desolate planet—something that wasn't the fault of Kirk.

As the original Khan, Montalbán—who also portrayed the villain in the actual series—was fearsome due to his ability to command and his enhanced body that was designed by eugenics.

However, Cumberbatch chose to give Khan a more outwardly ruthless exterior with no mind for posturing or taunting. Instead, he replaced the self-aggrandization with a burning rage felt through the screen.

Moreso, Cumberbatch's Khan felt smarter than Montalbán's. He used whomever he could to gain the upper hand, knowing his physical superiority was enough to fall back on should anything turn against him.

In the end, Cumberbatch wins simply because of his menace and terrifying single-minded mission of destruction.

Emotional Impact

The entire point of Spock's role in The Wrath of Khan was to die at the end because Leonard Nimoy wanted to bow out after almost two decades in the role. Meanwhile, Into Darkness flipped the script on Spock's death and gave the heroic sacrifice to Kirk (who's later revived, anyway).

Though the films handled their situations differently, the plot point is almost identical: both have to save the Enterprise by fixing the core, becoming exposed to lethal radiation in the process.

Into Darkness is no slouch when it comes to its big moment, with Spock watching Jim die from the other side of protective glass—then subsequently becoming angry enough to hunt down Khan himself.

However, the final moments of The Wrath of Khan , in which Kirk says goodbye to Spock after he's saved the Enterprise from destruction, is heartbreaking. The funeral scene shows the depth of emotion Kirk has for Spock when he breaks while delivering the eulogy.

Between the two, there is no contest: The Wrath of Khan has far more depth of emotional impact than Into Darkness .

Overall Performances

Both movies feature impressive ensemble performances that are great examples of how to showcase life on a starship.

Into Darkness succeeds in its smaller moments, as the relationship between Kirk and Spock becomes solidified by loss while the rest of the crew find their places under Kirk's leadership.

However, with The Wrath of Khan , the crew had already been on many adventures together for years on the series. This gave the film's performances a different dynamic with all the pre-established depth and history between the characters.

There's a sense of fun distrust in Into Darkness that doesn't exist in The Wrath of Khan , while the core of the original feels deeper with the wealth of experience we'd already had with the characters.

Ultimately, this one comes down to what you prefer in a sci-fi film, but we're giving it to The Wrath of Khan for better ensemble performance.

And the Verdict Is...

Between the two films, one ekes out ahead of the other, but not by much. The winner is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan !

There's plenty to like about Star Trek Into Darkness , which benefits from modern filmmaking technology and an updated story that's vibrant and fun in a new way.

But there's a reason why The Wrath of Khan is a sci-fi classic. It simply has a depth that the remake lacks, along with a sense of intimidation that's hard to replicate.

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Played by: Ricardo Montalbán , Desmond Sivan (child, Strange New Worlds )

Dubbed in french by: françois chaumette (star trek ii), dubbed in brazilian portuguese by: darcy pedrosa, appearances: star trek: the original series | star trek ii: the wrath of khan | star trek: strange new worlds.

Khan: Khan is my name. Kirk: Khan, nothing else? Khan: Khan.

A 20th-century genetically-engineered tyrant who ruled a quarter of the world in the 1990s. As his fellow "supermen" (or Augments) were overthrown, Khan and roughly 80 of his followers launched themselves into space in cryogenic sleep before being found by Kirk. With his weakness being his ambition, Khan then tried to seize control of the Enterprise with the help of Marla McGivers , the Enterprise ship historian whom he managed to seduce. It failed thanks to the crew's opposition and an attack of conscience from McGivers . Kirk then exiled Khan, his followers, and Marla to a remote but hospitable planet as an act of mercy, giving them the chance to build a new society. Unfortunately, not long afterwards, the planet suffered a catastrophic ecological disaster and, being completely forgotten by Kirk, Khan grew vengeful toward the man who cast judgement on him...

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A Father to His Men : He saw his fellow super humans as a family, to the point where he vowed to avenge Joachim when he died following a crippling blast on the Reliant .
Affably Evil : In his first appearance, Khan's pretty charming, polite, and a bit of a rogue, just like Kirk. However, come Wrath of Khan and Khan is just losing it.
Alas, Poor Villain : At the end of Wrath of Khan , he's lost everything, including his beloved wife as well as his people, along with any hope of being able to establish a society for them. As he's left to die in the exploding Reliant , he remains Defiant to the End , reciting dialogue from Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick before the Reliant explodes. All that potential he had as a superhuman was essentially wasted out of a desire for control and revenge.
Ambiguously Brown : He's a genetically-augmented human from some point in the late 20th century. Culturally, he's a North Indian Sikh, but as he is also a genetically-engineered human, his DNA could contain many different genetic traits (his Mexican accent, however, is difficult to explain - especially after the effects of various Temporal Wars caused his birth to be bumped a half century later ... and to Canada ).
Anti-Villain : Cruel and immoral his actions may be, he wants a society that he and his people can thrive in, no matter how many others have to suffer for it.
Arch-Enemy : More than a hundred years later , Spock would credit him as being "the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced."
Ascended Extra : Goes from a random Villain of the Week to the main antagonist of The Wrath of Khan and one of the franchise's most iconic villains.
A tie-in comic to Star Trek Into Darkness addresses Trek 's Alternate History directly, starting with Khan nuking Washington, D.C. in 1992 .
The final episode of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 implies and the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds confirms that under the Alex Kurtzman production umbrella the Eugenics Wars are being moved from the 1990's to the 2030's, with the implication that the 1990's is when the technology to create Khan was developed. This could be explained as Spock getting the dates wrong due to incomplete records, if it weren't for one line from The Wrath of Khan in which Khan himself states he departed Earth in 1996.
The third episode of Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds untangles the thread by revealing that Khan is responsible for bringing humanity to a dark age, which ultimately brings humanity to eventually form the Federation and Starfleet. Khan himself is the target of a temporal war to prevent this from occuring, which only succeeds in delaying his rise from the 1990's to the 2030's. His failure to rise culminates in humanity failing to progress beyond their own Solar System, having failed to ally with other species such as the Vulcans who are eventually wiped out in a war with the Romulans.
Bread and Circuses : His ruling style back when he was a dictator over a fourth of Earth, at least compared to his competitors, which was enough to give him a legacy as "the best of tyrants." Notably, there were no massacres under his rule, and he didn't involve himself in the Eugenics Wars until after his territory was attacked. On the other hand, the people under his rule were reduced to subjects with few freedoms.
Breakout Villain : Originally just a Villain of the Week . Ever since Wrath of Khan , he's arguably the most highly-regarded villain in the entire franchise.
Character Catchphrase : He has a particular way of saying "Admiral" he develops once he learns Kirk has gotten a promotion. At least one interpretation is Khan thinking Kirk got that for dumping him on Ceti Alpha V (because why wouldn't it be about Khan?), and raging jealousy that that's what he got while Khan got the shaft.
Classic Villain : Khan represents a nice combo of Pride and Wrath .
Control Freak : Khan demands absolute obedience from everything. While some of his followers can object, none of them will sway him from his course.
Damned by Faint Praise : He is seen as "the best of tyrants" in regards to the Eugenic Wars.
Dramatically Missing the Point : A fan of Moby-Dick , Khan sees himself as Captain Ahab and Kirk as his White Whale. Khan seemed to have forgotten how Ahab's quest for vengeance ended. Not just self destruction - he understands and accepts that - but that Ahab didn't even get a chance to make sure he succeeded.
The Dreaded : Even a century after his death, Starfleet is still terrified of him. It's outright said that the main reason the Federation still has a No Transhumanism Allowed policy in the Star Trek: Prodigy era is because they're scared of a new Khan rising from the ashes. His reputation even extends into a new timeline: When young Spock asks for information about Khan, Spock breaks his own oath not to tell him about the future to warn him about how dangerous Khan is, outright saying that he's the most dangerous enemy the Enterprise ever faced.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones : While he started manipulating Marla McGivers to betray Starfleet as a tool to escape, he came to passionately love her after she joined him in exile. He forgave her betrayal of him to her old crew, and she ruled as his queen. Her death on Ceti Alpha V - more than that of his other loyal followers - is what drives the man who once conquered a quarter of Earth.
Evil Overlord : Back in the day, anyway. He tries to give it another go in "Space Seed" but is thwarted and offered the opportunity of becoming one to an abandoned planet. But when the planet unexpectedly suffers a catastrophe that devastates him and his followers , he settles on a simpler motive.
Joachim begs Khan to ignore Kirk and exploit Genesis. Khan shoves him aside and orders the Reliant to follow the Enterprise into the Nebula.
Faux Affably Evil : Becomes one in The Wrath Of Khan , blinded by his desire to get revenge on Kirk. That doesn't undermine his intelligence, though.
Genius Bruiser : A Superhuman with immensely powerful physical and mental capabilities.
Glass Cannon : Has the physical strength to bend a phaser in half with his bare hands and effortlessly lift a spacesuit-wearing Chekov with one arm, but gets taken down by Kirk with a pipe.
Greater-Scope Villain : Arguably his interactions with the Enterprise are much smaller in significance compared to how much his role as a 20th Century Dictator defines and causes the creation of the Federation.
Heinousness Retcon : In Space Seed , and to a lesser extent Wrath of Khan , Khan is introduced as a 20th century dictator, but otherwise fairly little is made of him. It's in fact noted that he's only one of several dictators active at the time - if the strongest of them. He's otherwise unremarkable and obscure enough that unraveling his identity is a huge chunk of the episode, and the crew need a briefing to explain who the man was. Scotty, and later Kirk even confesses having a degree of admiration for the man. Bones even mentions in slight defense of Khan that "there were no massacres" in his rule, though Spock immediately states, "and little freedoms." Later series would characterize Khan as basically Trek's version of Hitler ( with Captain Picard alluding to both of them in the same breath ). A man whose name is a byword for evil and death, and whose actions are so despicable, the Federation centuries later is still sort of processing the trauma of them, and has laws on the books to stop a man like him from ever being made. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds even had admirals admit that these laws are draconian and discriminatory but humans are still so sensitive about what Khan did that repealing them is unthinkable.
Hero Killer : He was directly responsible for Spock's death in the second movie. Hard to fit the trope more plainly when you've done that .
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act : His descendant La'an Noonien-Singh has to save his life as a child in 2022, not just so she will be born but also as Romulans had sent an agent back in time to kill him. It turns out that without the Eugenics Wars to make humanity want to be better, whilst humanity will still reach space they will become the isolationist United Earth Fleet an easier smaller target amongst many rather than the alliance that is the Federation.
In Love with the Mark : He started off manipulating Marla, but quickly came to genuinely love her.
Karma Houdini : He was this In-Universe for his crimes during the Eugenics Wars. While all the other superhumans were implied to have been killed or imprisoned, Khan managed to escape on the Botany Bay . Even when he's later released by the Enterprise crew, there's no serious talk of putting him on trial and he's eventually given a whole planet of his own to rule. Then Ceti Alpha VI exploded , depriving Khan of his beloved wife and sentencing him to a hellish existence on a Death World .
Know-Nothing Know-It-All : Khan will be the first to point to his intelligence and superiority, but he's got a complete blind spot when it come to stuff from the 23rd century. His is best seen in Wrath of Khan When he gloats over how he perceives Kirk to be helpless, unaware that the Enterprise can just lower Reliant's shields and he doesn't know where the override command is. Similarly Spock notes that Khan is inexperienced in space combat and fails to consider that it's 3 dimensional space.
Morality Pet : His possible son Joachim, who he genuinely loves and cares about.
Motive Decay : Initially, all he wants is to create a society where he and his people can thrive, but by the time of The Wrath of Khan , all he wants is revenge against Kirk.
Mr. Fanservice : He's almost always wearing an outfit that displays his muscular chest and great physique.
My God, What Have I Done? : Khan's final moments include one of these with the death of Joachim, who may very possibly be his biological son and almost certainly is his adopted son. Realizing he got him killed doesn't deter him from further actions, though.
Navel-Deep Neckline : A Rare Male Example , his pecs are well displayed.
No Shirt, Long Jacket : In the movie (though the jacket is quite damaged), to show off Montalban's great shape.
No Transhumanism Allowed : In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , it's explained that Khan is the reason the Federation prohibits genetic modification or engineering.
Photographic Memory : Implied to be one of his genetically engineered gifts, and stated explicitly in the novelization of Wrath of Khan and the expanded universe's "Khan trilogy". He tells Chekov he never forgets a face, and even after 15 years he still seems to have the Enterprise 's technical specifications committed to memory, given that he still has perfect knowledge of the ship's weak points.
Pride : He has oodles of it.
Reasonable Authority Figure : At least to his fellow superhumans. His interactions with Joachim in Wrath of Khan show that his followers are comfortable enough with him to give him critical feedback without any hesitancy, although in the end his own authority is absolute.
Vaguely justified in that Khan and Singh are both overwhelmingly common Indian names, however.
Revenge Before Reason : He will do anything to kill Kirk, no matter how self-destructive. Even when Kirk is clearly baiting him into an obvious trap, Khan seems physically incapable of resisting the urge to roar into it, so fervent is his hatred. Khan: No... you won't get away. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee...
Revenge Myopia : Khan ignores Chekov's observation that he attacked Kirk after the latter had taken in him and his crew.
Rule of Symbolism : Much of the conflict between Kirk and Khan plays out like Paradise Lost , with Kirk as God and Khan as Lucifer . Khan even lampshades this in "Space Seed." In The Wrath of Khan , he has two copies of Paradise Lost on his bookshelf (one which included Paradise Regained ).
Sanity Slippage : By the time of The Wrath of Khan , he’s lost it thanks to being stranded on Ceti Alpha V and the death of his wife and most of his followers.
Sealed Evil in a Can : He and his cryogenically-frozen followers, in the episode " Space Seed ." And again in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , when he's abandoned on Ceti Alpha V (which the crew of the Reliant mistake for Ceti Alpha VI after a natural disaster alters its orbit and destroys its environment).
Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain : Star Trek: The Motion Picture had the crew of the Enterprise confront V'ger as the antagonist. Wrath of Khan brought Khan back and more dangerous than ever.
Silver Fox : For a man who was stranded on a nightmare planet for two decades, Khan still managed to age pretty damn well, and he clearly knows it. Check out them pecs, for one.
Skilled, but Naive : Other than his pride and ambition, one of Khan's greatest weaknesses is that, despite his incredible intellect, all his knowledge and experience is that of a 20th century man, and he lacks the decades of experience in space that Kirk has. This shows when he's unable to quickly find the Reliant 's command console override despite having memorized Starfleet's standard starship technical specifications, and when he fails to consider that space is three-dimensional during starship combat. Spock: He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Soft-Spoken Sadist : In Wrath , at least regarding Kirk and all collateral damage. Khan: I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you... and I wish to go on hurting you.
Stalker with a Crush : Meyer confirmed that the Foe Romance Subtext between Khan and Kirk was intentional, and Khan twists Moby Dick lines to “he tasks me, he tasks me and I shall have him.”
Star-Crossed Lovers : He and his wife, a crewman on the Enterprise who suffered from Heel–Face Revolving Door Syndrome.
Suddenly Shouting : "This is Ceti Alpha Five!!
Why Khan wants Project Genesis. With his homeworld destroyed and his people dwindling in numbers, he feels that terraforming a planet is the only way to ensure his and his people's continued existence.
In "Space Seed", Khan makes it clear he believes that he would have been the eventual victor of the Eugenics Wars if things had gone differently (" One man would have ruled eventually. As Rome under Caesar, think of its accomplishments!")
The Bad Guy Wins : Yes, Khan is killed by the end of The Wrath of Khan , but what happens after that? Spock — Kirk's closest friend — dies painfully as a result of radiation poisoning in his efforts to repair Enterprise enough to escape the Genesis Device detonation . Then as a result of his quest to bring his friend back from the dead , Kirk loses not only his beloved Enterprise but also his son. Ultimately, Khan has done far worse to Kirk than kill him — he hurt him.
Took a Level in Jerkass : Khan becomes far more ruthless and unhinged in The Wrath of Khan , thanks to his Sanity Slippage and single-minded vendetta against Kirk.
Tragic Keepsake : Khan wears a Starfleet emblem on a chain around his neck, strongly implied to have been part of Marla McGiver's uniform. note It's also a continuity problem: The insignia is similar to the belt buckle worn as part of the movie uniforms, however was not actually present on the uniform McGivers would have worn.
Tragic Villain : Subverted. Khan has all the hallmarks of a tragic character, having suffered a great loss that drives him to committing evil, but while he is sympathetic, he was a ruthless dictator even before this. The only thing it really changed was how evil he was, causing him to go from Affably Evil to a spiteful, unhinged demagogue.
Trouble from the Past : He perfectly embodies both the modern age's charismatic daring and its prideful ambition, transported through time almost 300 years to menace the utopian future of the 23rd century, which he comes to believe is ill-prepared to resist himself and his crew of supermen. Kirk ultimately proves him wrong on that account.
Ungrateful Bastard : Kirk and company find a stasis ship just in the nick of time, as Khan's own capsule is about to fail, revive him and his followers, and treat him with frankly undue courtesy given who he is— so Khan decides to steal his ship. Then Khan resents Kirk leaving him and his people on Ceti Alpha V, even though that was more lenient than taking him back to Earth, where he would have been prosecuted as a war criminal.
Justifies his quest to Take Over the World as an attempt to unify humanity during a time of war.
Subverted by the movie, in which it becomes abundantly clear he isn't as interested in conquering as he is in killing one man over a grudge.
Wicked Cultured : His Final Speech comes from Moby-Dick , he mentions Paradise Lost before Kirk exiles him, and the Botany Bay appears to have other classic books. Part of his obsession with Moby-Dick in particular seems to be because Khan was stuck on Ceti Alpha V with only a handful of books to read, leading him to read them over and over again.
Young Conqueror : Both Expanded Universe versions of his Origin Story (the 2001 novels by Greg Cox and the 2014 comic book tying in to Star Trek Into Darkness ) place him as being either in his early or late 20's during the Eugenics Wars. The novels indicate that faster-than-normal maturation is part of his genetic modifications.

Commander John Harrison/Khan Noonien Singh (Kelvin Timeline)

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Played by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Dubbed in french by: pierre tissot, dubbed in brazilian portuguese by: ronaldo júlio, appearances: star trek into darkness.

Starfleet's top agent, before a perceived betrayal by his superiors sent him on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the entire Federation command structure.

The Ace : As Harrison himself claims, he is simply "better" at everything . Justified, as he is genetically designed to be so.
Adaptational Jerkass : The original Khan was in no way a nice person, but he was Affably Evil , at least in "Space Seed", and had an entertainingly hammy persona. This one is far more cold blooded and stoic.
Adaptational Villainy : As seen above, in Space Seed Khan had committed no massacres in his reign. Here Spock accuses him of planning to commit mass genocide on any being he deems "less than superior".
Aesop Amnesia : Openly vows to resume "the work" he and his crew had done prior to banishment. Despite having failed in his despotism in the Eugenics Wars, he still hopes to start right over.
He also has a spinoff comic. See Villain Episode .
Alternate History : The Villain Episode tie-in comics tackle the Failed Future Forecast issues around the Eugenics Wars head on... by showing Khan nuking Washington D.C. and Moscow... in 1992 .
The Antichrist : He's not supernatural, of course, but the tie-in comics use a fair share of "The Beast of Revelations" imagery when describing his rise to power during the Eugenics Wars.
Arch-Enemy : For Kirk, much like Nero for Spock in the last film . And well, himself for Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
Boasts about his superhuman abilities. Harrison: I am better. Kirk: At what? Harrison: Everything. note In the novelization , the tone of voice he says this with isn't that of a boast, but a simple statement of fact by a man who knows that it's true.
Boasts about how he's going to end you. Harrison: I will walk over your cold corpses.
Badass Longcoat : Sports a black trenchcoat with a hood. He even steals one off a chair towards the end of the film to replace it. Presumably, this was to help disguise him to some extent.
Benevolent Boss : Zig-zagged between this and Bad Boss . While he does seem to truly care for his crew, he was also a ruthless tyrant and war criminal 300 years prior. Harrison: My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?
Berserk Button : Threatening his crew or implying that they're dead is a seriously bad idea. Admiral Marcus found that one out the hard way.
Big Bad : A Starfleet agent with superhuman abilities turned terrorist. He's really Khan Noonien Singh, an infamous war criminal working for Starfleet under an assumed identity.
Big Bad Ensemble : Serves as Into Darkness 's main antagonist, alongside Admiral Marcus . Towards the climax, however, Khan kills Marcus , establishing himself as the sole Big Bad .
Big "NO!" : He yells "No" when he thinks that his crew has been killed after the torpedoes explode on his ship.
Bio-Augmentation : Genetically engineered for superhuman strength, endurance and intelligence.
Bullying a Dragon : Nice job trying to force a 300-year-old superman stronger, smarter and more ruthless than you to do your dirty work by threatening to kill his crew (which is essentially his family), Marcus .
Byronic Hero : A Villainous example. He fits the bill in a few ways: Brooding, charismatic, sympathetic and physically attractive but also incredibly vengeful, prideful and was once an Evil Overlord back in the day.
Canon Character All Along : This is one of Into Darkness 's main twists. John Harrison is revealed to be none other than Kirk's Arch-Enemy Khan Noonien Singh.
Canon Foreigner : Subverted. He's actually Khan Noonien Singh.
The Chessmaster : Most of the events of Into Darkness are the result of Harrison's planning and manipulations.
Chewing the Scenery : While there is some mugging during "annoyed/angry exposition" , when he gets furious, Evil Is Hammy gets into full force. You should have let me SLEEP!
Commanding Coolness : Harrison's falsified rank in Starfleet was Commander.
Cool Starship : The USS Vengeance , a jet black Federation dreadnought that Harrison helped design and later steals after killing Admiral Marcus .
Creepy Monotone : Making him even more scary. And a complete inversion of Ricardo Montalban's hammy original. Benedict Cumberbatch 's performance just drives the whole thing home since you really can't watch him like this without shuddering at least once.
Dark Is Evil : Dresses exclusively in black clothing. Benedict Cumberbatch also dyed his hair black for this film again. Also, the Vengeance , a pitch-black monster of a warship, was his design, and he takes command of it near the climax of the film.
After Kirk's utterly ineffective beatdown on Kronos, Harrison contemptuously repeats Uhura's invocation of Kirk's rank. Harrison : Captain .
During his conversation with Spock after Harrison hijacks control of the Vengeance . Spock : You betrayed us . Harrison : Oh, you are smart , Mr. Spock.
Death Seeker : When he thinks his crew is dead, Khan has shades of this when he attempts to ram The Vengeance into Starfleet Headquarters. Harrison : SET DESTINATION: STARFLEET HEADQUARTERS! Vengeance's computer system : Engines compromised. Cannot guarantee destination. Confirm order. Harrison : Confirm.
Despair Event Horizon : He crosses it when he believes his beloved crew to have been killed. After that, Khan stops caring if he lives or dies, setting the Vengeance on a suicide run to Starfleet Headquarters.
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu : As he notes, Starfleet really should have kept him asleep .
Dragon-in-Chief : Marcus forced him to help design the USS Vengeance for Starfleet but he is a much more direct threat to the heroes than the Admiral and only serves him to save his crew, and Harrison shows himself to be the more competent villain when he kills Marcus to commandeer the Vengeance .
The Dreaded : Spock Prime's encounters with Harrison/Khan's prime universe counterpart are enough to convince him to give Spock information about him, despite his previous pledge to let Spock walk his own path.
Driven to Villainy : Subverted. While his present motivations are to get back at Starfleet for Admiral Marcus for holding his family hostage, Khan was a war criminal before being frozen, and was specifically defrosted for both his intellect and his willingness to use it aggressively .
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette : He has dark hair, retains his actor's pale complexion and serves as a contrast to Kirk and Admiral Marcus .
Emperor Scientist : In the tie-in comics it's indicated that this was his ruling style after he accomplished his initial conquests.
Empowered Badass Normal : Being a bio-engineered super-human, he's a Nigh-Invulnerable One-Man Army Evil Brit in a Badass Longcoat . Not even an extremely angry Vulcan on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge was enough to stop him without help.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones : Wants to save his former crew who were on board the SS Botany Bay . Harrison: Is there anything you would not do for your family?
Evil Brit : Retains the accent of his actor, the British Benedict Cumberbatch .
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good : His terrorist attacks are motivated by his suspicions that Starfleet has already killed his crew, mainly because that's exactly what he would have done in their place. Later, after the torpedo incident, he again assumes that his enemies have killed off his crew and decides to make the Vengeance 's name very literal. One gets the impression that Khan just can't wrap his head around other people not being as murderous and willing to kill for convenience as him.
While Harrison/Khan displays similar mannerisms to that of Spock in his initial appearance, the differences in their character increasingly become apparent following The Reveal . Khan actually goes so far as to distinguish himself from Spock by pointing out that he indulges and takes pride in his savagery while Spock suppresses such emotions. Harrison: Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mr. Spock. You, you can't even break a rule. How could you be expected to break bone ?
Evil Is Hammy : Even when he's not raising his voice, he is full of Cold Ham with the way he overenunciates his words.
Evil Is Not a Toy : Starfleet really shouldn't have tried to manipulate or threaten him.
Evil Is Petty : Being shunned after helping Marcus with his warmongering plans is as bad for him as the fact the admiral kept his "family" hostage.
Evil Overlord : Ruled over a quarter of Earth centuries ago.
Evil Sounds Deep : Benedict Cumberbatch plays the character with a deep baritone voice.
Fantastic Racism : He finds being at the beck and call of the genetically "inferior" humiliating.
Face–Heel Turn : He went from a decorated member of Starfleet to a terrorist trying to destroy it. Only not; the John Harrison identity was created for him when he was thawed, and the closest he came to working for Starfleet was his unwilling stint making weapons for Admiral Marcus.
Fallen Hero : Subverted. He was a bad guy long before his falsified past.
Fatal Flaw : Pride . While his original timeline version was more defined by the It's Personal nature of Wrath pushing him to obsessively pursue Kirk in Revenge Before Reason , here, his condescending contempt for Kirk’s crew manifests as arrogance bordering on blindness— in particular, he seems incapable of conceiving that Spock could have the cunning to match him even briefly, or meet Khan’s savagery with his own. The first costs him his ship, and the second leads to a brutal fist fight with the half-Vulcan that is more than even Khan could have predicted.
A Father to His Men : He genuinely cares about his crew and will do anything to protect them. Harrison : My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?
Faux Affably Evil : Though Harrison genuinely cares for his crew, the politeness he demonstrates towards Kirk and others is relatively fake. Once his nominal allies have outlived their usefulness , he'll have no hesitation about killing them.
First-Name Basis : Upon the revelation of his true identity, he's addressed solely as "Khan". Only Spock Prime even mentions the rest of his name.
Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke : Harrison is a One-Man Army created through genetic manipulation. It turns out to be the first hint of his true identity.
Genius Bruiser : He's incredibly intelligent ( within a year, he learned enough about 23rd century technology to design advanced weaponry, as well as the nigh-unstoppable USS Vengeance ) and extremely strong (enough so to crush a man's skull with his bare hands ).
Guns Akimbo : For the shootout with the Klingons, he wields a phaser rifle in one hand and a Chainsaw-Grip BFG in the other.
Hannibal Lecture : Delivers several speeches while captured over the heroes' shortcomings.
Healing Factor : Heavily implied but not seen. Harrison's blood allows his cells to heal at an astonishing rate, which he uses to heal a sick girl in the beginning in exchange for a favor. Later, Bones revives a dead tribble with it, and then uses it to save Kirk .
The Heavy : Harrison's actions are what set off and move along the plot of Into Darkness .
Heel–Face Brainwashing : The tie-in comics show that after they found the Botany Bay , Section 31 gave Khan extensive plastic surgery, a memory wipe, and a fake life history in an attempt to turn him into John Harrison, Hero of the Federation . After he finds out what was done to him, he's understandably pissed.
Hero Killer : This guy has killed a whole bunch of Starfleet officers, including Pike . Near the end of Into Darkness , Khan's attack on the Enterprise manages to kill Kirk himself, although the crew do manage to save their captain.
Human Popsicle : Was cryogenically frozen for about 250 years. He ends the film this way, too .
Icy Blue Eyes : Which serves to highlight his cold, calculating personality.
Implacable Man : Over the course of the film, Harrison withstands a ( completely ineffective ) beating from Kirk, stunning shots from a phaser, an explosion that cripples the Vengeance , and the Vengeance crashing into San Francisco, all of which barely slows him down. Exaggerated during his fight with Spock, where he forces his way through a Vulcan nerve pinch and takes roughly a dozen stun shots from Uhura's phaser without going down. Ultimately, it takes Spock beating him nearly to death to subdue Khan .
In a Single Bound : The first time we see him, he jumps an enormous distance into battle and lands perfectly.
In Spite of a Nail : No matter the universe, Khan and Kirk will always end up at each other's throats.
Ironic Echo : He does underestimate Spock somewhat, telling him that intellect alone is useless in a fight and that Spock "can't even break a rule. How would [he] be expected to break bone ?" Guess what, Spock manages to do exactly that just fine to him in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at the climax of the film.
Taunts Kirk as he destroys the Enterprise. Harrison: No ship should go down without her captain.
Taunts Admiral Marcus as he crushes his skull. Harrison: YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ME SLEEP.
Taunts Kirk while securely imprisoned. Harrison: Captain, are you going to punch me again, over and over and over , until your arm weakens? Clearly you want to.
Karmic Death : Marcus was planning one of these for Harrison when you take into account that he was to be killed by the torpedoes he designed, which also contained his crew. Luckily, Kirk didn't go through with that plan and opted to arrest him. Even better, Harrison surrenders himself the moment he finds out about the number of the torpedoes.
Kick the Dog : Right before he kills Admiral Marcus , he stomps on Carol's leg hard enough to break it.
Knight of Cerebus : If you thought Nero was nasty, he pales compared to this guy.
Kubrick Stare : Harrison occasionally tilts his head down and to the right and then angrily stares up to look more threatening.
Late-Arrival Spoiler : Subsequent release materials, his Villain Episode comic mini-series, and even the DVD/Blu-ray cases of Into Darkness make no secret of the fact that Benedict Cumberbatch's character is, in fact, Khan.
Leitmotif : Besides the main theme, Khan's theme is the most noticeable leitmotif in the movie. It's oddly heroic, which makes sense when you look at the movie's symbolism and realize he's not so much meant to be Osama Bin Laden as he is meant to be Leonidas .
Lightning Bruiser : The thing that stands out most about his fighting style is just how damn fast he is. The second thing is how strong he is, to the point that he can carry a cannon with one hand or squash people's skulls like melons. The third thing is how he can withstand multiple punches and phaser stuns without slowing down.
Love Makes You Evil : Played with. He was certainly evil before, but his actions in Into Darkness are driven almost entirely by his love for his crew.
One-Man Army : Harrison is a "one-man weapon of mass destruction" who takes on entire Klingon security teams by himself. Admiral Marcus : For reasons unknown, John Harrison has just declared a one-man war against Starfleet.
Manipulative Bastard : He cures Thomas Harewood's comatose daughter to manipulate him into suicide-bombing a Starfleet records office. This in turn causes most of the Starfleet officers to gather in one place, where he promptly tries killing most of them.
Manly Tears : When he talks about his crew during his capture on-board the Enterprise , tears are seen streaming down his face while he looks away from Kirk and Spock the entire time.
Meaningful Re Name : The Villain Episode tie-in comics reveal that his birth name was Noonien Singh; he named himself Khan after completing his conquest of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Mirror Character : As he points out to Kirk, both of them would do anything to protect their respective crews .
Moral Myopia : Genuinely cares for his former crew and is distraught and furious when he thinks they've been harmed, and while his actions toward Starfleet and the Enterprise crew may possibly be justified, in his mind they were unlawfully kidnapping him for justified actions, his other actions make it clear that he barely considers the rest of the genetically inferior population to even be people. In fact, Spock mentions that Khan was accused of practicing eugenics in Earth's past.
More Dakka : His attack on the meeting at Starfleet Headquarters basically consists of him shooting the crap out of his target. He doesn't exactly skimp on bullets when it comes to fighting the Klingons, either.
Downplayed. When Kirk confronts him over his massacre of Starfleet officers, he indignantly protests that Marcus was holding his crew hostage. In his eyes, they weren't innocent civilians, as Kirk claims, but military personnel that Khan believes killed his defenseless crew, so he sees it as a case of Pay Evil unto Evil .
He also claims that he was labeled a criminal and exiled from Earth, ignoring his actions as a tyrant.
When he threatens to kill everyone on the Enterprise if Spock does not return his crew, he says he "will have no choice" but to do it if Spock defies him. However, it was Kirk and Scotty who double-crossed him by having him stunned once they had taken the Vengeance , so in Khan's eyes, the crew is not entirely innocent and have proven untrustworthy, which is solidified when Spock double crosses him again by arming the torpedoes.
Takes a huge pounding over the course of the movie, and only ever shows a few scratches.
Faked being stunned by a phaser shot at point blank range .
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown : He delivers a pretty vicious one to Spock during the finale of Into Darkness . Once Uhura arrives and Spock manages to recover, Khan finds himself on the receiving end.
No-Sell : Takes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Kirk, and only registers some mild annoyance. He also manages to shrug off the Vulcan nerve pinch, albeit with some pain, but considering most beings crumple after being subjected to it...
Not So Stoic : At three points of Into Darkness : he sheds a tear as he reveals his story to Kirk and Spock, dissolves into sheer rage while beating Kirk and killing Admiral Marcus, and loses it completely during his Villainous Breakdown .
Older Is Better : When Kirk wonders what possible value a man who's been frozen for the past 250 years could be to the leader of Starfleet, Harrison implies that he was awakened to help militarize Starfleet because as a conqueror from the savage 20th century he has a better understanding of combat and warfare than the more peaceful, evolved humans of the 23rd century. His 20th century genetic enhancements also make him far stronger and smarter than any 23rd century human.
One-Man Army : Takes out an entire squad of Klingon commandos and several of their gunships by himself, wielding an assault rifle and a beam cannon .
O.O.C. Is Serious Business : Inverted: the only scene in which he is not menacing is pure comedy, with him giving Kirk a shocked look at Kirk's casual reply to their imminent space jump.
Papa Wolf : He's completely bent on recovering and protecting the rest of his people, and his Roaring Rampage of Revenge is mostly because he thinks they're all dead ( twice ) . He even refers to them as his family— see Even Evil Has Loved Ones .
The Paragon Always Rebels : Harrison was Starfleet's best agent before he rebelled. Subverted, however. While he could be considered a "paragon" in the sense of his physical and mental abilities, Khan was never truly a Starfleet agent (or if he was, it wasn't by choice); that position, like the entire identity of "John Harrison", was nothing but a lie fabricated by Section 31.
Depending on how you look at it, using his blood to cure Lucille Harewood of her illness could count at this. Granted, Harrison was most likely manipulating her father's desperation to get him to agree to carry out a terrorist attack for him, but even so, he could have found someone easier to coerce.
Also, his saving Uhura from the Klingons by attacking before they kill her. She was distracting them from him while alive, but her death itself would have been just as good. And sure, it was probably in his favor to keep all of the Starfleet officers alive, since a MORE pissed-off Kirk might have been less receptive to what he had to say, but it's not like Harrison needed a communications officer alive to carry out his plans.
Poisonous Captive : The Enterprise crew manage to shut Harrison in the brig, only to receive a withering Hannibal Lecture from him.
Pride : His defining character trait is his certainty in his own superiority. The hell of it? He's not even wrong. This is a man so ridiculously good at literally everything that he nearly single-handedly designed an entire militarized sub-Starfleet and then nearly destroyed the entire Starfleet / Federation edifice on his own , with no help from anyone else.
Race Lift : He goes from being played by the brown-faced make-up-wearing , Mexican Ricardo Montalban to the white-skinned, British Benedict Cumberbatch. And Khan is meant to be Indian, which neither men are. The tie-in comics detailing his youth and origins reveal that he is really Indian. It's shown that Admiral Marcus gave him extensive plastic surgery along with a memory wipe in an attempt to recruit him as a Section 31 super-operative.
Really 700 Years Old : The guy's been in cryo for 300 years.
Retired Monster : He wanted to be this... but they wouldn't let him sleep.
The Reveal : His true identity is Khan Noonien Singh, of Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , a genetically modified superhuman who had been awoken after centuries of cryosleep by Admiral Marcus and forced to develop advanced weapons.
The Rival : While he shares several traits with Spock, he and Kirk's relationship has a somewhat competitive edge to it. What did you expect? It's Kirk vs. Khan the remake. They also have a pretty clear understanding of each other, and both are cunning enough to prepare for their inevitable betrayal during an Enemy Mine . And without his revenge hard on from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Khan proves the victor, because he is "better."
Roaring Rampage of Revenge : Is out to take revenge on the entire Federation for what he believed was the murder of his beloved crew .
Rogue Agent : Was Starfleet's best agent before a perceived betrayal by his superiors sent him on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the entire Federation. It's a cover story for his work at Section 31 and his true identity.
Rogues' Gallery Transplant : Khan, in a change up from the original chain of events, ends up with Spock as his primary adversary in this film. He lacks the grudge that defined him from being marooned by Kirk in the prime-timeline, and ends up spending more time in an Enemy Mine with Kirk than he does fighting him, since without that glaring flaw of It's Personal with Kirk, he can make wiser decisions around him. Kirk still seems to gain his respect as a Worthy Opponent with a similar care for his crew, but this movie might be called Wrath of Spock once Kirk's Almost Dead .
Sealed Evil in a Can : A former Evil Overlord accused of war crimes, cryogenically frozen for centuries in a derelict ship... until Starfleet Intelligence found him. He ends the film this way, too.
Self-Serving Memory : Khan described himself and his followers as being meant to "lead others to peace in a world at war" before being branded as criminals and forced into exile. While it's likely that this genuinely is how Khan sees himself, he conveniently leaves out the minor detail that he and his crew were war criminals who did everything in their power to take over the world. This is quite similar to the scene in Space Seed where Khan gives another romanticized description of the Eugenics Wars, stating that he and the other supermen "offered the world order" and an attempt to unify humanity.

Shrouded in Myth : His reputation as Starfleet's top agent precedes him. In his past life, he was also an infamous superhuman tyrant, who was so feared that by the 24th century of the origin timeline his name was apparently on par with Hitler's as shorthand for ultimate evil.
Smug Super : Harrison is well aware of his superhuman abilities and makes no effort at false modesty. Harrison: I am better. Kirk: At what? Harrison: Everything .
The Social Darwinist : Implied. Spock says that he intends to destroy those he deems inferior. Khan doesn't confirm it, but he doesn't deny, either. The tie-in comics show that Khan genuinely saw himself as humanity's savior and that (unlike some of the other Augment rulers) he explicitly wanted to rule, not destroy. However, the methods he employed to achieve his goal (including nuking Washington D.C. and Moscow) would certainly justify humanity recording in their history that he was an Omnicidal Maniac .
Spared by the Adaptation : Khan notably died at the end of his outing in The Wrath of Khan , but was simply put back on ice in Into Darkness — definitely a kinder fate.
The Spock : To Admiral Marcus's Kirk . Cold, calculating, and brilliant.
The Spook : He worked for Section 31 before the film started.
The Stoic : He's usually very calm and calculating.
Superhuman Transfusion : Being injected with Harrison's bio-augmented blood temporarily grants others his Healing Factor .
Super-Toughness : Barely even flinches when Kirk tries beating on him as hard as he can. Also, nothing seems to be able to incapacitate him for more than a few moments. It takes a Vulcan nerve pinch, a dozen or so point-blank stun phaser hits, a vicious Tap on the Head , then an arm-break, all in rapid succession to finally stun him enough for Spock to get the upper hand.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute : Shares a number of character traits with Khan Noonien Singh from Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . That's because he is Khan.
Tom the Dark Lord : "John Harrison" isn't an impressive name for a villain. Subverted, as it's actually an alias disguising his true identity as A Villain Named Khan .
Tragic Villain : To an extent. See Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds .
Transhuman : Harrison has gained superhuman abilities thanks to a little genetic engineering , including a decent Healing Factor , Super-Intelligence , Super-Strength and Super-Toughness .
The Unfettered : Khan would do anything for his crew, and after believing them dead, would do anything to avenge them.
Villain Episode : Like Nero, he stars in a comic book mini-series exploring his background. The Race Lift issue is brought up on the very first page, with Kirk pointing out at his trial that "Harrison" looks nothing like the very Indian Khan.
Villain Respect : As expected from Khan, he gains some genuine, if condescending, admiration of Kirk, especially during their Enemy Mine , and even seems intrigued by Kirk’s reference to his adventure in the preceding film. However, without the It's Personal nature of their feud in the original timeline, Khan is more of a No-Nonsense Nemesis towards Kirk here, and wastes no time in incapacitating him without any fanfare when their alliance is done.
Villainous Breakdown : After believing that his crew had been killed, Khan seems to decide "screw it all" and sets the fatally damaged Vengeance on a collision course with San Francisco. The breakdown continues during his fight with Spock. Any emotional control he'd had before is gone , and he brutally pummels Spock in sheer, undiluted rage.
Hell, most of the DVD's, Blu-Rays, and even a few digital services outright state who he is.
Well-Intentioned Extremist : Believes he's ultimately doing what's best for humanity, regardless of what they think.
Wham Line : "My name is Khan."
Wicked Cultured : Harrison is pretty well spoken for a madman and even paraphrases Moby-Dick (a book that Khan loved in the Prime timeline) at one point when he beams Kirk, Carol and Scotty off of the Vengeance and back onto the Enterprise . Harrison : No ship should go down without her captain .
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds : He may be a bit of an asshole, as well as a ruthless killing machine, not to mention an Evil Overlord at one point, but he's been frozen for 250 years, then turned into a killing machine by the Federation, then tried saving his crew only for Admiral Marcus to take them away from him once again. It's a bit hard not to feel sorry for him.
Would Hit a Girl : Breaks one of Carol Marcus' legs.
Your Head A-Splode : He can do this with his bare hands and seems to reserve it for people who have really pissed him off. Just ask Admiral Marcus . He also tries to do the same to Spock during their fight and would have succeeded if Uhura hadn't beamed down.
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Star Trek Into Darkness

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 ... Read all 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. 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.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness is the twelfth Star Trek feature film , which was released in May , 2013 . [1]

Like 2009's Star Trek , the film was preceded by a comic book miniseries published by IDW Publishing . The series is named Countdown to Darkness . [2]

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On planet Nibiru , Kirk and McCoy steal a sacred scroll, luring the natives away from a temple about to be destroyed by a natural disaster. A shuttle piloted by Sulu and Uhura delivers Spock into a volcano with a device that will prevent an eruption that would wipe out the planet's civilisation but his safety cable snaps. With no other way to save him, Kirk pilots the Enterprise in full view of the planet's inhabitants to beam him aboard.

Back on Earth , Kirk is castigated for breaking the Prime Directive and relieved of command. Pike takes over with Kirk as his first officer while Spock is reassigned to the USS Bradbury .

Thomas Harewood , a Starfleet officer working in London , is blackmailed by rogue Starfleet operative John Harrison , who saved his daughter's life with a blood transfusion, to destroy the facility where he works with a concealed bomb. Starfleet head Admiral Marcus convenes a meeting that Pike, Kirk and Spock attend but Harrison has anticipated this, attacking the meeting in a shuttle and killing Pike and several others. Kirk manages to bring the shuttle down but Harrison beams off.

" John Harrison " arrives.

Scotty discovers a transwarp beaming device in the wreckage and learns Harrison beamed to a deserted part of Qo'nos . Marcus puts Kirk and Spock back in charge of the Enterprise and assigns them to use a new torpedo to destroy Harrison from a distance. Scotty refuses to take receipt of the torpedoes without proper schematics and he and Keenser resign, leaving Chekov as chief engineer. Lieutenant Carol Wallace signs aboard the Enterprise as a science officer but Spock quickly deduces she is actually Carol Marcus , the admiral's daughter.

When the Enterprise warp drive mysteriously fails on entering Klingon space, Kirk takes a team to Qo'nos to find Harrison, having Sulu transmit a warning to him about the missiles. Harrison saves them from a Klingon patrol and surrenders on hearing there are seventy-two missiles. He tells Kirk to investigate a set of co-ordinate near Jupiter and the torpedoes. Kirk asks Scotty, still on Earth, to do the former while McCoy and Carol discover the torpedoes contain three hundred-year-old humans in cryogenic suspension.

Harrison reveals he is Khan , a war criminal who fled Earth in suspended animation. He was found and revived by Marcus, who used him in his attempt to militarise Starfleet for the war he considers inevitable. When it became clear Marcus would never keep his promise to revive his crew, Khan tried to smuggle them out in the torpedoes but had to flee alone. Marcus hoped the Enterprise would be discovered firing on Qo'nos and trigger a war with the Klingons.

Marcus arrives in a secret Federation warship and demands Kirk turn Khan over for execution. Kirk heads to Earth at warp but the faster ship fires on and cripples the Enterprise in Earth's solar system, killing several crew members. Carol alerts Marcus to the fact she is onboard in the hope she will spare the crew but he simply beams her off.

As Marcus is about to fire on the Enterprise , his ship powers down: Scotty found the ship at the co-ordinates Khan gave and stowed away onboard. He helps Kirk and Khan board via the airlock and together they overpower the crew and take the ship. Suspicious of Khan, Kirk has Scotty stun him but Khan recovers and overcomes his allies before killing Marcus. He then threatens to kill them if Spock doesn't return his crew. Spock beams over the torpedoes and Khan returns Kirk, Scotty and Carol. However, the occupants of the torpedoes have been removed and the torpedoes armed: They explode, crippling the warship.

The Enterprise nearly crashes into Earth and Kirk suffers a fatal radiation dose manually realigning the engines. Khan tries to crash the warship into Starfleet Headquarters but hits the bay instead. Spock beams down and pursues him through the streets. Then McCoy realises a tribble he injected with a sample of Khan's blood has come back to life and Kirk could be revived in the same way. Uhura beams down as Khan is about to kill Spock and shoots him repeatedly with a stun blast, allowing Spock to batter him unconscious.

Kirk is successfully revived and Khan is placed back in suspended animation with his followers. One year later, following an extensive physical refit, and with Carol remaining with the crew, the Enterprise departs on a five-year mission .

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Set in the 23rd century, the film follows Kirk and the crew of USS Enterprise as they are sent to the Klingon homeworld seeking a former Starfleet member-turned-terrorist, John Harrison .

After the release of Star Trek , Abrams, Burk, Lindelof, Kurtzman, and Orci agreed to produce its sequel. Filming began in January 2012. Into Darkness ' s visual effects were primarily created by Industrial Light & Magic . The film was converted to 3D during its post-production stage. It premiered at Event Cinemas in Sydney, Australia, on April 23, 2013, [5] and was released on May 9 in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Europe and Peru, [6] with other countries following.

The film opened at IMAX cinemas in the U.S. and Canada on May 16, and in standard-format cinemas the next day. [7] [8] Into Darkness was a financial success and received positive reviews from critics. Its gross earnings of over $467 million worldwide have made it the highest-grossing entry in the Star Trek franchise. It was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards . It was followed by Star Trek Beyond in 2016.

3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
5.1 Marketing
5.2 Promotional tours
6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical reception
6.3 Accolades
7 Home media
10 References
11 External links

In 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive after exposing the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru in order to save them, and Spock, from a cataclysmic volcanic eruption. Admiral Christopher Pike is reinstated as commanding officer with Kirk demoted to first officer. Spock is transferred to another ship. Shortly after, Starfleet officer Thomas Harewood, sent by Commander John Harrison, bombs a Section 31 installation in London . During an emergency meeting on the situation, Harrison uses a ship to ambush and kill Pike and other senior officers, before transporting to Kronos , homeworld of the hostile Klingons .

Admiral Alexander Marcus reinstates Kirk and Spock to Enterprise with orders to kill Harrison using a new long range stealth torpedo. Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott objects to allowing untested torpedoes on board without knowing their specifications; when he is overruled, he resigns. Kirk assigns Pavel Chekov to replace Scotty. En route to Kronos, Enterprise ' s warp capabilities become disabled. Kirk leads a team with Spock and Uhura to the planet, where they are ambushed by Klingon patrols. Harrison appears and kills the Klingons. Harrison surrenders when he learns the precise number of torpedoes on board Enterprise .

Dr. Leonard McCoy and Marcus's daughter, Dr. Carol Marcus, open a torpedo at Harrison's urging, revealing the torpedoes contain cryonically-frozen humans. Harrison is taken to Enterprise ' s brig, where he reveals his true identity as Khan Noonien Singh , a genetically engineered superhuman, awoken by Admiral Marcus from centuries of sleep and forced to develop advanced weapons. Khan reveals that Marcus sabotaged Enterprise ' s warp drive, intending for the Klingons to destroy the ship after it fired on Kronos, sparking war with the Klingon Empire. Khan also gives Kirk a set of coordinates, which Kirk asks Scott to investigate. Scott discovers the coordinates lead to a covert Starfleet facility.

Enterprise is intercepted by a much larger Starfleet warship, USS Vengeance , commanded by Admiral Marcus. Marcus demands that Kirk deliver Khan, but Enterprise flees to Earth to expose him. After Vengeance disables Enterprise near the Moon, Carol reveals her presence aboard Enterprise to stop the attack. Marcus forcibly transports Carol to Vengeance before ordering Enterprise ' s destruction. Vengeance loses power after being sabotaged by Scott, who infiltrated the ship. With transporters down, Kirk and Khan, with the latter's knowledge of the warship's design, space-jump to Vengeance . Meanwhile, Spock contacts his future self on New Vulcan, who tells him of his own encounter with Khan and warns that he cannot be trusted. After fighting their way to the bridge, Khan overpowers Kirk, Scott, and Carol, kills Marcus, and takes control of Vengeance .

Khan demands that Spock return his frozen crew in exchange for the Enterprise officers. Spock complies, but has McCoy surreptitiously remove Khan's frozen crew from the torpedoes beforehand. When Khan starts shooting at Enterprise , Spock detonates the warheads, crippling the ship. With both starships caught in Earth's gravity, they plummet toward the surface. Kirk enters Enterprise ' s radioactive reactor chamber to realign the warp core, sacrificing himself to save the ship.

Khan crashes Vengeance into downtown San Francisco in an attempt to destroy Starfleet headquarters, while McCoy discovers that Khan's blood has regenerative properties that may save Kirk. Spock pursues Khan through the city and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat. Uhura beams down and stuns Khan. Spock prepares to kill Khan, but Uhura stops him, explaining he's their only chance to save Kirk. Khan's blood revives Kirk and Khan is sealed in his cryogenic pod and stored with his compatriots. One year later, Kirk speaks at Enterprise ' s re-dedication ceremony. The Enterprise crew embarks on a five-year exploratory mission.

Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk , commanding officer and former first officer of the starship Enterprise .
Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock , first officer and science officer. Leonard Nimoy has a cameo appearance as Spock Prime.
Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy , chief medical officer.
Zoe Saldana as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura , communications officer.
Simon Pegg as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott , second officer and chief engineer.
John Cho as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu , third officer and helmsman.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan , a genetically engineered superhuman given the false identity of Commander John Harrison.
Anton Yelchin as Ensign Pavel Chekov , navigator and Scott's temporary replacement as chief engineer.
Bruce Greenwood as Admiral Christopher Pike , Kirk's predecessor as captain of the Enterprise and mentor. [9]
Peter Weller as Starfleet Fleet Admiral Alexander Marcus, Carol's father.
Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus , [10] a science officer who uses the pseudonym Carol Wallace to board the Enterprise .
Noel Clarke as Thomas Harewood, a Starfleet officer, working within Section 31 who is bribed by Khan into blowing up the facility.
Nazneen Contractor as Rima Harewood, Thomas's wife

Additional members of the Enterprise crew include Amanda Foreman as Ensign Brackett, Jay Scully as Lieutenant Chapin, Jonathan Dixon as Ensign Froman, Aisha Hinds as Navigation Officer Darwin, and Joseph Gatt as Science Officer 0718. Deep Roy and Jason Matthew Smith reprise their roles as Keenser and Hendorff from the first film. Anjini Taneja Azhar, [11] Nolan North , and Sean Blakemore [12] also appear in the film, with Azhar as Lucille Harewood, the terminally ill daughter of Thomas Harewood; North portraying a Vengeance helmsman; and Blakemore playing a Klingon . Heather Langenkamp portrays Moto, a character she describes as a small role. [13] [14] Meanwhile, Ser'Darius Blain portrays a security lieutenant aboard the Enterprise .

Production [ ]

Development [ ].

In June 2008, it was reported that Paramount Pictures was interested in signing producers of the 2009 Star Trek J. J. Abrams , Bryan Burk , Damon Lindelof , Alex Kurtzman , and Roberto Orci for a sequel. [15] In March 2009, it was reported that these five producers had agreed to produce the film, with a script again written by Orci and Kurtzman (with the addition of Lindelof). A preliminary script was said to be completed by Christmas 2009 for a 2011 release. [16] [17] Kurtzman and Orci began writing the script in June 2009, originally intending to split the film into two parts. [18] Leonard Nimoy , the original Spock who plays an older version of the character in the 2009 film, said he would not appear in the film. [19] Abrams was reportedly considering William Shatner for the sequel. [20]

By 2010, a release date of June 29, 2012, was set, [21] with Lindelof announcing he had begun working on the script with Kurtzman and Orci. [22] Pre-production was set for January 2011, although Burk said actual filming would probably begin during the spring or summer. [23] Actor Zachary Quinto later said that these reports were untrue. [24] Lindelof compared the sequel to The Dark Knight . [25]

Abrams, Kurtzman, and Orci said that selecting a villain was difficult; according to Abrams, "the universe Roddenberry created is so vast that it's hard to say one particular thing stands out". They also discussed the possibility of Khan Noonien Singh and Klingons . [26] Kurtzman and Lindelof said they had "broken" the story (created an outline); instead of a sequel, it will be a stand-alone film. [27] Abrams admitted in December 2010 that there was still no script. [28]

In January 2011, Abrams said he had not decided whether or not he would direct, since he had not yet seen a script. [29] Paramount Pictures then approached him, asking that the sequel be in 3D . [30] Abrams said that the film would not be shot in 3D, but filmed in 2D and converted during post-production . [31] He was also interested in filming in IMAX : "IMAX is my favorite format; I’m a huge fan." [31] In February, Orci tweeted that he (with Lindelof and Kurtzman) planned to deliver the script in March 2011. [32] Although the script was not finished on schedule, Paramount began financing pre-production; [33] similar circumstances on the next Jack Ryan film meant that Chris Pine would film the Star Trek sequel first. [34] By April, Orci said at WonderCon that the script's first draft had been completed. [35] Abrams told MTV that when he finished his film, Super 8 , he would turn his full attention to the Trek sequel. [36]

Although a script was completed, uncertainty regarding the extent of Abrams's involvement led to the film's being pushed back six months from its scheduled June 2012 release. [37] Other factors which precluded the release, ending up pushing it further back were the high budget and overall difficulty of finding actors to fit the roles. In June, Abrams confirmed that his next project would be the sequel, noting that he would rather the film be good than ready by its scheduled release date. [38] Simon Pegg , who played Scotty , said in an interview that he thought filming would begin during the latter part of the year. [39] Abrams stated he would prioritize the film's story and characters over an early release date. [40] In September, Abrams agreed to direct the film, with the cast from the previous film reprising their respective roles for a winter 2012 or summer 2013 release. [41] In October, Orci said that location scouting was underway, and a comic book series (of which Orci would be creative director) would "foreshadow" the film. [42] Into Darkness was given a revised release date of 2013, [43] and Michael Giacchino confirmed that he would return to write the score. [44]

Lindelof said that Khan was considered a character they needed to use at some point, given that "he has such an intense gravity in the Trek universe, we likely would have expended more energy NOT putting him in this movie than the other way around." References to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan were eventually added to the script, but Lindelof, Orci, and Kurtzman "were ever wary of the line between 'reimagined homage' and 'direct ripoff'." [45] Orci and Kurtzman said they wanted a film which would work on its own and as a sequel, not using ideas from previous Star Trek works simply "because you think people are going to love it". Orci noted that when trying to create the "gigantic imagery" required by a summer blockbuster, Kurtzman suggested a scene where Enterprise rose from the ocean. With that as a starting point they (and Lindelof) came up with the cold open in Nibiru, which blended action and comedy and was isolated from the main story in an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark . [46]

Actor Benicio del Toro had reportedly been sought as the villain, and had met with Abrams to discuss the role; [47] however, he later bowed out. In 2011, Alice Eve and Peter Weller agreed to their roles. [48] [49] Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke agreed to an unknown role, reported to be "a family man with a wife and young daughter". [50] Demián Bichir auditioned for the villain role, but as reported by Variety on January 4, 2012, Benedict Cumberbatch was cast. [51]

Filming [ ]

Into Darkness began principal photography on January 12, 2012, with a scheduled release date of May 16, 2013. Cinematographer Dan Mindel shot the film using a combination of anamorphic 35mm film and 15 perforation IMAX cameras. [52] [53] About 30 minutes of the film is shot in the IMAX format, [54] while some other scenes were also shot on 8 perforation 65mm . [52] Into Darkness was released in 3D. On February 24, 2012, images from the set surfaced of Benedict Cumberbatch's character in a fight with Spock. [55] [56] Edgar Wright directed one shot in the film. [57] Production ended in May 2012. [58]

Filming was done on location in Los Angeles , California, and around the area at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore . Additional locations included Paramount Studios in Hollywood , Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City , the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove , and the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills . Some shots were made in Iceland . [59] [60] [61]

Marc Okrand , the developer of the Klingon language , provided the Klingon dialogues with on-set coaching from constructed language experts. The dialogue did not make cohesive sense following editing and so new dialogue was constructed and dubbed during post production. [62]

On September 10, 2012, Paramount confirmed the film's title as Star Trek Into Darkness . [63] [64] [65] Abrams had indicated that unlike some of the earlier films in the franchise, his second Star Trek would not include a number in its title. [66] This decision was made to avoid repeating the sequel numbering which began with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , or making a confusing jump from Star Trek to Star Trek 12 . [66] Lindelof addressed the team's struggle to agree on a title: "There have been more conversations about what we're going to call it than went into actually shooting it... There's no word that comes after the colon after Star Trek that's cool. Not that Star Trek: Insurrection or First Contact aren't good titles, it's just that everything that people are turned off about when it comes to Trek is represented by the colon". [67] Of the titles proposed, he joked that he preferred Star Trek: Transformers 4 best because the title is "technically available". [67]

Composer Michael Giacchino composed the film's incidental music . [68] Into Darkness was Giacchino's fourth film collaboration with Abrams, which included Star Trek (2009). The film score was recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, California from March 5 to April 3, 2013. [69] Its soundtrack album was released digitally on May 14, 2013, and was made available on May 28 through Varèse Sarabande . [70] The score contains the original Star Trek theme by Alexander Courage .

On April 24, 2013, it was announced that British singer Bo Bruce and Irish songwriter Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol had collaborated on a song for the film's soundtrack entitled "The Rage That's In Us All". [71] Australian songwriter and producer Robert Conley co-wrote a track with Penelope Austin , "The Dark Collide". [72]

An expanded soundtrack album was released on July 28, 2014, limited to 6,000 copies. [73]

On May 10, 2013, Cho, Pegg, and Eve were interviewed on The Bob Rivers Show to promote the film. Rivers asked about the title: "The title Star Trek Into Darkness indicates some sort of ominous turn, obviously". Eve suggested that Pegg discuss the theme of terrorism , and Pegg obliged: "I think it's a very current film, and it reflects certain things that are going on in our own heads at the moment; this idea that our enemy might be walking among us, not necessarily on the other side of an ocean, you know. John Harrison, Benedict Cumberbatch's character, is ambiguous, you know? We [the characters in the film] don't know who to support. Sometimes, Kirk, he seems to be acting in exactly the same way as him [Harrison]. They're both motivated by revenge. And the Into Darkness in the title is less an idea of this new trend of po-faced, kind of, everything's-got-to-be-a-bit-dour treatments of essentially childish stories. It's more about Kirk's indecision." Cho agreed about the characterization of Captain Kirk: "It's his crisis of leadership." [74]

The pivotal scene near the end when Kirk enters the reactor chamber serves as a role reversal of a similar pivotal scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. [75]

Originally conceived as a retelling of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad , Kurtzman and Orci defined the main theme of Into Darkness as "how far will we go to exact vengeance and justice on an enemy that scares us. How far should we go from our values?" They added that running from personal values is a personal struggle, where "the enemy’s blood is within us; we are the enemy. We must not succumb to it; we are the same." [46]

Release [ ]

Dolby Laboratories and Paramount announced that Star Trek Into Darkness would be released in Dolby Atmos , with Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer handling the mix with supervision from Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood . [76] [77] The film was released on May 9, 2013, in international markets and May 16, 2013, in the United States .

Marketing [ ]

As part of a contest Abrams designed after the release of Super 8 (2011), the prize for answering a series of questions would be walk-on roles for two people in Into Darkness . [78] He debuted three frames of the film on Conan on October 4, 2012, showing what he described as Spock "in a volcano, in this crazy suit". [79] The official poster for the film was released two months later on December 3, 2012, showing a mysterious figure (thought to be Benedict Cumberbatch's villain) standing on a pile of burning rubble looking over what appears to be a damaged London ; [80] [81] he is standing in a hole in the shape of the Starfleet insignia, blown out of the side of a building. [82]

About nine minutes of the opening sequence was shown before IMAX presentations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , which was released in the United States on December 14, 2012. [83] Alice Eve, Cumberbatch, and Burk unveiled the IMAX prologue in London, England on December 14. A two-minute teaser was released in iTunes Movie Trailers on December 17. The teaser marked the beginning of a viral marketing campaign, with a hidden link directing fans to a movie-related website. A 30-second teaser premiered February 3, 2013 during the stadium blackout of Super Bowl XLVII . [84] The same day, Paramount released apps for Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone which enabled users to unlock tickets for showtimes two days before the film's release date. [85] [86]

An international trailer was released on March 21, 2013, with an embedded URL revealing an online-only international poster. On April 8, Paramount released the final international one-sheet featuring solely Benedict Cumberbatch's character. [87]

On April 12, 2013, iTunes Movie Trailers revealed the final domestic one-sheet featuring USS Enterprise , and announced that the final US domestic trailer would be released on April 16. In the days leading up to the trailer release, character posters featuring Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Harrison were released on iTunes. [88] Paramount attempted to broaden the film's appeal to international audiences, an area where Star Trek and other science-fiction films had generally performed poorly. [89] Into Darkness was dedicated to post-9/11 veterans. [90] J.J. Abrams is connected with The Mission Continues , and a section of the film's website is dedicated to that organization.

Reception [ ]

Box office [ ].

Into Darkness earned $13.5 million on its opening day in the United States and Canada, lower than Star Trek 's $30.9 million. The film earned $21.6 million the following Friday, also lower than its predecessor's earnings four years earlier ($26 million). [103] It earned $70.6 million during its opening weekend, finishing in the US box-office top spot (above The Great Gatsby and Iron Man 3 ). Total weekend earnings were $84.1 million, including the early-showing grosses. Although these were lower than Paramount's projected box-office earnings, studio vice-chairman Rob Moore said he was "extremely pleased" with the sequel's performance. [104]

Several weeks after release, the film grossed $147 million at the foreign box office, surpassing the lifetime international earnings of its predecessor. [105] Into Darkness reached the top spot of China 's box office with a $25.8 million gross, tripling the overall earnings of the previous film during its opening weekend. [106] Star Trek Into Darkness ended its North American theatrical run on September 12, 2013, with a box office total of $228,778,661, which places it as the 11th highest-grossing film for 2013. [107] It earned $467,365,246 worldwide, ranking it in 14th place for 2013, and making it the highest-grossing film of the franchise. [4]

Scott Mendelson of Forbes contends that the film's box office performance was the result of Paramount's inability to sell the basic components of the film's story, and inclusion of Khan "for little reason other than marketability and then spent the next year or so lying to everyone and claiming said villain wasn’t in the picture... With no added value elements to sell, Paramount was forced to craft a generic campaign based around Benedict Cumberbatch as "Generic Bad Guy", so the excitement never took hold... This was adding to the idea that merely withholding basic story elements is tantamount to promising stunning plot twists... and it made fans and general moviegoers less excited about Star Trek 2 than they were four, three, or even two years ago." [108] Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $29.9 million. [109]

Critical reception [ ]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 84%, based on 292 reviews, with an average rating of 7.43/10. The site's consensus reads, "Visually spectacular and suitably action packed, Star Trek Into Darkness is a rock-solid installment in the venerable sci-fi franchise, even if it's not as fresh as its predecessor." [110] On Metacritic the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [111] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [112]

Critics called it a "rousing adventure" [113] and "a riveting action-adventure in space". [114] Cumberbatch's performance attracted praise from critics, with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calling it a "tour de force to reckon with" and his character "a villain for the ages". [115] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News wrote that Cumberbatch delivered "one of the best blockbuster villains in recent memory". [116] Jonathan Romney of The Independent noted Cumberbatch's voice, saying it was "so sepulchrally resonant that it could have been synthesised from the combined timbres of Ian McKellen , Patrick Stewart , and Alan Rickman holding an elocution contest down a well". [117] The New York Times praised his screen presence: "He fuses Byronic charisma with an impatient, imperious intelligence that seems to raise the ambient I.Q. whenever he's on screen". [118]

However, not all of reviews were positive; The Independent said the film would "underwhelm even the Trekkies". [119] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film one-and-a-half stars (out of four), saying it had a "limp plot" and the "special effects are surprisingly cheesy for a big-budget event movie". [120] A.O. Scott dismissed the film in The New York Times : "It's uninspired hackwork, and the frequent appearance of blue lens flares does not make this movie any more of a personal statement". [118] Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer (from which the film borrows and remakes some scenes), revealed in 2018 that he had been disappointed with the film. He was quoted saying: "In my sort of artistic worldview, if you're going to do an homage, you have to add something. You have to put another layer on it, and they didn't. Just by putting the same words in different characters' mouths didn't add up to anything, and if you have someone dying in one scene and sort of being resurrected immediately after, there's no real drama going on. It just becomes a gimmick or gimmicky, and that's what I found it to be, ultimately." [121]

The film was criticized for a scene with actress Alice Eve 's character Carol Marcus in her underwear, which was called "wholly unnecessary" and "gratuitous". [122] Screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof apologized on Twitter for the scene: "I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future". [123] On Conan , Abrams addressed the matter by debuting a deleted scene of actor Benedict Cumberbatch 's character Khan taking a shower. [124] Eve addressed the underwear controversy at a 2013 Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and said, "I didn’t know it would cause such a ruckus. I didn’t feel exploited." [125]

Despite an acclaimed performance from Cumberbatch, Christian Blauvelt of Hollywood.com criticized the casting of the actor as Khan Noonien Singh , saying that the character had been "whitewashed into oblivion", since Khan is an explicitly non-white character in the Star Trek canon (introduced as a Sikh and former ruler of much of eastern Eurasia). [127] There have been similar accusations of whitewashing by fans [128] and American Sikhs, [129] with Star Trek: Voyager actor Garrett Wang tweeting "The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not being critical of the actor or his talent, just the casting". [130] George Takei , the original Hikaru Sulu, was also disappointed with the casting, as he thought it would have been better to cast Cumberbatch not as an established villain like Khan but as a new character. [126] On Trekmovie.com, co-producer and co-screenwriter Bob Orci addressed Khan's casting: "Basically, as we went through the casting process and we began honing in on the themes of the movie, it became uncomfortable for me to support demonizing anyone of color, particularly any one of Middle Eastern descent or anyone evoking that. One of the points of the movie is that we must be careful about the villain within US , not some other race". [131] An in-canon comic book has subsequently been created to retcon Khan's hitherto unexplained change in ethnicity in the film. [132]

In an interview with Buzzfeed two years after the film's release, Abrams addressed some of the film's shortcomings. He thought that the dynamic for Kirk and Spock's relationship in the film "wasn’t really clear." For keeping the identity of Khan a secret prior to the film's release, Abrams felt he "was trying to preserve the fun for the audience, and not just tell them something that the characters don’t learn for 45 minutes into the movie, so the audience wouldn’t be so ahead of it." In the end, Abrams recognized that "there were certain things I was unsure of.... Any movie...has a fundamental conversation happening during it. And [for Into Darkness ,] I didn’t have it.... [The problems with the plot] was not anyone’s fault but mine, or, frankly, anyone’s problem but mine. [The script] was a little bit of a collection of scenes that were written by my friends.... And yet, I found myself frustrated by my choices, and unable to hang my hat on an undeniable thread of the main story. So then I found myself on that movie basically tap-dancing as well as I could to try and make the sequences as entertaining as possible.... I would never say that I don’t think that the movie ended up working. But I feel like it didn’t work as well as it could have had I made some better decisions before we started shooting." [133]

Accolades [ ]

Main article: List of accolades received by Star Trek Into Darkness

Home media [ ]

Star Trek Into Darkness was released as a digital download on August 20, 2013. [134] It was first released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D in the United Kingdom on September 2 [135] and in the United States and Canada on September 10. [136] There is also a Special Limited Edition Blu-ray set available with a model on a stand of USS Vengeance as seen in this movie. Template:Cn

In North America, the release is split into various retailer exclusives. Retailer Best Buy has an exclusive Blu-ray edition with 30 minutes of additional content. [137] Target's Blu-ray edition also has 30 minutes of additional content that is different from Best Buy's. Online retailer iTunes' version comes with audio commentary for the film not available in the retailer exclusives. [138] A collection of deleted scenes is available exclusively via the Xbox SmartGlass second-screen app paired with the Xbox Video release of the film. [139]

The split of the special features between various retailers has attracted criticism from fans. In particular, The Digital Bits' editor Bill Hunt remarked that "taking fully half or more of the disc-based special features created for a major Blu-ray release and casting them to the winds as retailer exclusives, thus forcing your customers to go on an expensive scavenger hunt is, I’m sorry, absolutely outrageous. Seriously, if Paramount is going to treat its Blu-ray customers like this, they should just get out of the business altogether. Or better yet, farm all their titles out to third party licensees who will treat these films and Blu-ray customers in general with greater care and respect." [140] Weeks after posting his article, Hunt himself was invited by Paramount to discuss about the issue of giving away the film's special features to different retail partners. He suggested "[putting] together the true special edition that should have been delivered from the start, with all of the extras that got scattered around to different retailers, including the enhanced audio commentary, plus all-new content just for this release... [and] to consider offering the IMAX version of the film ..." [141]

Into Darkness received a sequel, Beyond in July 2016.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness ( Paramount Pictures , 2013 ) is the twelfth feature film based on the popular science fiction television series , Star Trek: The Original Series . The film takes place in an alternate time line, dealing with James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise crew hunting down rogue Federation agent John Harrison.

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James T. Kirk

There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are... When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath. Words I didn't appreciate at the time. But now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

John Harrison / Khan Noonien Singh

You…you should have LET ME SLEEP! [crushes Admiral Marcus' skull]
You think your world is safe? It is an illusion, a comforting lie told to protect you. Enjoy these final moments of peace, for I have returned, to have my vengeance.
Chris Pine – Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Zachary Quinto – Commander Spock
Zoe Saldana – Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
Karl Urban – Lieutenant Commander Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Simon Pegg – Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
John Cho – Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
Benedict Cumberbatch – "John Harrison" / Khan Noonien Singh
Anton Yelchin – Ensign Pavel Chekov
Bruce Greenwood – Rear Admiral Christopher Pike
Peter Weller – Admiral Alexander Marcus
Alice Eve – Dr. Carol Marcus
Noel Clarke – Thomas Harewood
Nazneen Contractor – Rima Harewood
Leonard Nimoy – Spock Prime

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness is a 2013 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams , written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof, and produced by Abrams, Bryan Burk, Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci. It is the twelfth Star Trek film and serves as the sequel to 2009's Star Trek .

Most of the crew of the first film returned, including director and producer Abrams and his most regular collaborators: composer Michael Giacchino, cinematographer Daniel Mindel, and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey. Kurtzman and Orci are returning as screenwriters (and now also producers), while Lindelof returns as producer and now also acts as co-writer. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, John Cho and Bruce Greenwood returned to reprise their roles from the previous film, with the addition of Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus and Benedict Cumberbatch as John Harrison, the villain. The film was released on May 17, 2013.

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The USS Enterprise has been sent to the planet Nibiru to study the development of primitive cultures. Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) attempt to save the planet's inhabitants from a volcanic eruption. When Spock's life is endangered, Kirk violates the Prime Directive, exposing the Enterprise to the planet's civilization during his rescue.

After being summoned back to Earth, Kirk loses command of the Enterprise , and Admiral Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) is reinstated as its commanding officer. Pike, feeling that Kirk deserves a second chance, enables Kirk's assignment as first officer.

When a secret Section 31 installation in London is bombed, Pike, Kirk and Spock meet with Starfleet commanders to discuss the hunt for the bomber—rogue Starfleet agent John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch). The meeting is attacked by a jumpship piloted by Harrison. Kirk destroys it, but Pike is killed. Harrison escapes by transporting to the Klingon homeworld of Kronos. Kirk is reinstated as the Enterprise 's captain, and is ordered to find Harrison by Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller). Marcus supplies the Enterprise with prototype long-range photon torpedoes, ordering Kirk to fire them at Harrison when he is within range. Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg) resigns in protest when he is forbidden from inspecting the weapons. Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) is promoted to chief engineer and Dr. Carol Wallace (Alice Eve)—a science officer with expertise in the new weapons—joins the crew. Spock, Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) convince Kirk that it would be better to capture than kill Harrison, so he can be tried.

Arriving on Kronos, Kirk, Spock and Uhura try to capture Harrison but are intercepted by Klingons. Harrison kills the Klingons, surrendering after learning that they were prepared to fire 72 torpedoes. On the Enterprise , Harrison reveals his true identity: Khan, a genetically-engineered superhuman who was awakened by Marcus from a 300-year suspended animation to develop weapons and starships for a war between the Federation and the Klingons. Each torpedo contains a cryogenic pod with one of Khan's crew (previously held hostage by Marcus).

The Enterprise is intercepted by a larger, unmarked Federation warship: the USS Vengeance , designed by Khan and commanded by Marcus. Marcus demands that Kirk deliver Khan; Kirk refuses. The Enterprise heads to Earth for Khan's trial, but is attacked by the Vengeance in warp. With the Enterprise damaged, Kirk offers to exchange Khan and the cryogenic pods for his crew. Carol reveals herself as Carol Marcus, the admiral's daughter, who joined the Enterprise under her mother's maiden name. Marcus transports her to the Vengeance , revealing his intention to destroy the Enterprise in his plan to begin a war with the Klingons. When the Vengeance prepares to open fire, it experiences a power outage caused by Scott (who has infiltrated the ship). With the transporters down, Kirk and Khan travel to the Vengeance by space-jumping between the ships' airlocks. After seizing the bridge, Khan overpowers Scott and Kirk, crushes Carol's leg and kills Marcus, controlling the Vengeance .

Khan negotiates with Spock, beaming Kirk and his boarding party back to the Enterprise in exchange for the prototype torpedoes (to destroy the Enterprise ). Spock hands over the torpedoes after removing Khan's frozen crew and having McCoy arm them. The torpedoes incapacitate the Vengeance ; both damaged starships begin falling towards Earth. With a misalignment of the warp-core heads making the Enterprise powerless, Kirk enters the radioactive engine chamber and re-aligns the heads to prevent the ship's destruction; he dies of radiation poisoning.

Khan crashes the Vengeance into San Francisco to destroy Starfleet's headquarters (where Spock transports, to pursue him). McCoy discovers (when experimenting on a tribble) that Khan's blood has regenerative properties which may save Kirk. Spock and Uhura capture Khan, and Kirk is revived.

A year later, Kirk addresses a gathering memorializing the events, reciting his "where no-one has gone before" speech. Khan is resealed in his cryogenic pod and stored with his crew, and Carol joins a rebuilt Enterprise as it departs on a five-year mission.

Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Benedict Cumberbatch as John Harrison
Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus
Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura
Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
John Cho as Hikaru Sulu
Simon Pegg as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Bruce Greenwood as Admiral Christopher Pike

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Star Trek Mystery: What Was in Khan’s Bags?

In the movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness , the audience sees Khan putting two large duffel bags in the truck of a vehicle. This was mostly unnoticed by the chaotic crowd of bystanders. But Kirk, viewing the footage of the carnage, asks the council members, “What’s in the bags?” Suddenly, Khan attacks the building, killing Admiral Pike. The question went unanswered in the movie.

What is Section 31?

To answer the first question, we, first, have to examine, “What exactly is Section 31 ?”

In days long past, in a parallel dimension, there was an Earth that was destined for greatness. It started out much like our own. They had hopes and fears like the ones we have now. Just like us, each country had their version of Homeland Security. The many countries on this Earth formed unions. Each of those Unions combined their Homeland Securities into larger facilities. Then, as those unions formed into Hemispheric factions, they joined their Securities into larger facilities. By the time, this Earth each the early 1980’s, it was one of these faction’s security facilities that created the Super Beings. This lead to the Eugenics wars.

It was after the Eugenics Wars that Zefram Cochran invented the first warp drive. On his first voyage, Zefram managed to be noticed by a Vulcan Ship. They came and introduced themselves. In time, the Earth became part of the Federation. With their help, Earth stabilized and gained the ability to govern itself. It was during these years that information was gathered from the Security Sections from the extinct government factions. This information was kept in a new, centralized system called Section 31. Section 31, was located under the Kelvin Memorial Archive , which is our equivalent of a public library. Section 31 is a highly secured governmental department that holds top secret and highly classified information on research and development and all the information regarding timelines, including alternate timelines! As we know from the movie, the archive was blown up by Noonien Khan.

Star Trek: Into Darkness

A short time later, during a meeting in the Daystrom conference room at Starfleet Headquarters, Kirk asked, “What’s in the bags?”

There is no response and the question is never answered by anybody in the movie. So wrapped up in the action scene that follows and the death of Admiral Pike, Kirk completely forgets that this even happened. Which is understandable for Kirk but Spock was in the meeting room too. Spock would not forget that Kirk’s question wasn’t answered. It is highly likely that Spock, went looking for the answers. Spock would not have been able to look for those answers in the movie, Into Darkness. But the moment he had time to investigate, Spock, like his ancestor, would have taken up the case.

What’s in the bags?

It’s a cryo-chamber, of course, one in each bag. Each cryo-chamber holds about 5,000 Eugenics embryos. Which gives us our 10,000 count from Enterprise, Cold Station 12 , Borderland . Of course, Noonien Khan found them in Section 31 while working on the Juggernaut Warship! Marcus even tells us during the meeting. He mentions “the attack on Cold Station 12.” This is a second attack. Arik Soong had already attacked Cold Station 12 years before. It was this attack that leads the Klingons to a small number of Eugenic embryos. The Klingons are not specifically looking for more embryos, they are looking for something else. They are looking for information not located on Cold Station 12.

Khan stole Arik Soong ‘s work. Captain Archer tells Arik Soong (Data’s grandfather) that his work is not being destroyed. The work is being held in Section 31 for further study. This happened years before the destruction of the USS Kelvin. Additionally, Admiral Marcus and Noonien Khan had access to information regarding Julian Bashir . We know this because the juggernaut warship actively shows armament and maneuvering capabilities equal to or greater than the Defiant . Julian Bashir is the only known stable Eugenics survivor in the history of the franchise. Julian Bashir also studied the eugenic issue, with little success. It only makes sense that while Khan was in Section 31, he downloaded it all, and took the work and the remaining embryos to the Klingon homeworld. The vaccine by Dr. Phlox did not cure the mutations or the plague, it only halted them in the first stages. The Klingons want a cure for the plague and they want it at any cost. This leaves a burning question for every Sherlock in the geek world, “What did the Klingons give Noonien Khan in return?”

For the Future

This information might have a huge effect on the upcoming movie. The Klingons didn’t just experiment on other Klingons with the embryos and Arik Soong’s work. They experimented on other species in the Empire. Because the Klingon Empire is, currently, in an unstable state, the Klingons cannot contain or patrol their Empire as they normally would. It is safe to suspect that the borders of the Federation and the Klingon Empire is, at the moment, very chaotic. If the Klingons experimented on worlds close to the border, we might expect one of those worlds to rebel and go rogue. Would that world attack the Federation?

And what of Spock? His investigation into the bags may have led him to a planet, within the Klingon Empire. If he is captured, it may be up to Kirk and the crew to search for him, and possibly rescue him. This is a dangerous prospect. The Federation doesn’t have good relations with the Klingon Empire at the moment. If the crew gets caught by the Klingons, it would be very bad. If the inhabitants of another world within the Empire have him, Kirk may have to violate the Prime Directive to retrieve him. We can only wait and see what happens next.

Star Trek Into Darkness Cut An Emotional Scene Between Kirk And Rima's Daughter

The inciting incident in J.J. Abrams' 2013 sci-fi revenge thriller "Star Trek Into Darkness" was an act of terrorism. In a swift montage, audiences were introduced to a character names Thomas Harewood, a Federation citizen with a sick young daughter, Lucille (Anjini Taneja Azhar) dying of an incurable ailment. Thomas, at his wit's end, was approached by a mysterious man named "John Harrison" (Benedict Cumberbatch) who claimed to have a miracle cure, and he will administer it ... in exchange for a fatal, violent errand.

"Harrison" will later reveal himself to be the cryogenically unfrozen supervillain Khan Noonien Singh, and his miracle cure was an injection of his own genetically enhanced blood. Harewood's violent errand was to carry out a destructive suicide bombing on the Kelvin Memorial Archive. Harewood killed 42 people, including himself, and sent a message to a Starfleet admiral, alerting Kirk (Chris Pine) to the situation and getting the film's mysterious plot going. It seems Khan staged the attack merely to get several important people in a room together, knowing they would assemble to discuss the explosion's fallout. He would then fly an attack craft up to the window and assassinate everyone inside ... which happens later in the film.

Harewood was survived by his daughter (she's safe), and his wife Rima (Nazneen Contractor). In the final cut of "Star Trek Into Darkness," Rima and Lucille only appear in first-act scenes pertaining to Harewood's coerced terrorism. In an earlier edit, however, they also appeared at the end of the movie to have a sweet, connective moment with Kirk.

Kirk and Lucille share a moment in this Star Trek Into Darkness deleted scene

Recall that, at the end of "Into Darkness," Kirk died of radiation poisoning after committing a heroic act inside an irradiated engine chamber. His body was retrieved, however, and the resourceful Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) found that he could revive Kirk using Khan's genetically enhanced blood. Kirk is miraculously resurrected, and the galaxy now seems to be in possession of a cure for death . Sadly, the follow-up film, "Star Trek Beyond," doesn't address the revolutionary implications of such a cure.

This meant, however, that both Kirk and the young Lucille were magically cured of their fatalities by the same blood; both of them avoided death thanks to Khan. This similarity would be symbolically addressed in a scene that was ultimately cut for the movie. Contractor was going to be in the scene as well, and in a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com , she recalled what it would have been:

"There was a scene at the end of the movie, after the memorial service, in which Chris Pine (as Kirk) comes up to me and my daughter. He sees us, and my daughter is now healthy, with a full head of hair, and I thank him for his speech. He looks up at me and he knows who I am, and then he looks at my daughter, and they both have this moment where they know they share Khan's blood. But it got cut."

Such a scene was likely cut for pacing reasons, as it was part of the film's epilogue. It can make a film feel bottom-heavy if there's too much falling action after its climax, and the filmmakers likely had to select what kind of emotional climax they wanted the film to have.

Imagining the scene properly scored with Michael Giacchino's music, this moment could have been a bright coda at the end of a movie filled with death, violence, and, well, darkness .

Who Saves the Saviors (episode)

Traveling through the time rift, Dal and the crew search for Chakotay on Solum. With the support of her father, Gwyn challenges Ascencia.

1.2 Act One
1.3 Act Two
1.4 Act Three
1.5 Act Four
1.6 Act Five
2 Log entries
3 Memorable quotes
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The title of this episode is similar to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 episode " Who Watches The Watchers ".

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Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk
Dee Bradley Baker as Murf
Brett Gray as Dal
Angus Imrie as Zero
Ella Purnell as Gwyn
Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog
Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Janeway
John Noble as Ilthuran
Jameela Jamil as Asencia
Robert Beltran as Captain Chakotay
Daveed Diggs as Commander Tysess
Jason Alexander as Counselor Noum
Michaela Dietz as Maj'El
Susanne Blakeslee as Kathon
John Pirkis as Borom
Tommie Earl Jenkins as Adreek-Hu
Bonnie Gordon as Ship Computer
Ben Thomas as Vau N'akat Guard

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" Who Saves the Saviors " at the Internet Movie Database
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Traveling through the time rift, Dal and the crew search for Chakotay on Solum. With the support of her father, Gwyn challenges Ascencia. Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk Dee Bradley Baker as Murf Brett Gray as Dal Angus Imrie as Zero Ella Purnell as Gwyn Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog And Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Janeway John Noble as Ilthuran Jameela Jamil as Asencia Robert Beltran as Captain ...

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