STAR TREK
INTO DARKNESS

Series: Star Trek: The Movies - (1979-2025)
Movie: #12
Release Date: May 17th, 2013

Story: Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci & Damon Lindelof
Screenplay: Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci & Damon Lindelof
Director: J.J. Abrams

Cast:
Chris Pine as James T. Kirk
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy Zoë Saldana as Nyota Uhura
John Cho as Hikaru Sulu
Simon Pegg as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
Bruce Greenwood as Christopher Pike
Peter Weller as Admiral Marcus
Alice Eve as Carol Marcus
and
Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime

Also Starring:
Noel Clarke as Thomas Harewood
Nazneen as Contractor Rima Harewood
Amanda Foreman as Ensign Brackett
Jay Scully as Lieutenant Chapin
Jonathan H. Dixon as Ensign Froman
Aisha Hinds as Navigation Officer Darwin
Joseph Gatt as Science Officer 0718
Jeremy Raymond as the Lead Nibiran
Tony Guma as a Nibiran
Kimberly Arland-Broumand as Madeline
Sean Blakemore as a Klingon
Nick E. Tarabay as a Klingon
Beau Billingslea as Captain Abbot
Deep Roy as Keenser
Anjini Taneja Azhar as Lucille Harewood
Jack Laufer as a Doctor
Katie Cockrell as a Girl
Kellie Cockrell as a Girl
Jason Matthew Smith as Cupcake
Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk
Jennifer Morrison as Winona Kirk
Seth Ayott as a U.S.S. Enterprise Shuttle Ensign
Marco Sanchez as a Torpedo Security Guard
Lee Reherman as a Uniformed Mercenary
Scott Lawrence as a U.S.S. Vengeance Officer
Usman Ally as a U.S.S. Vengeance Officer
Nolan North as a U.S.S. Vengeance Bridge Officer
James Hiroyuki Liao as a U.S.S. Vengeance Bridge Officer
Rob Moran as a U.S.S. Vengeance Ensign
Berit Francis as a Starfleet Admiral
Akiva Goldsman as a Starfleet Admiral
Benjamin P. Binswanger as a Starfleet Admiral
Christopher Doohan as a Transport Officer
Andy Demetrio as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Gianna Simone as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Rene Rosado as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Jacqueline King as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
James L. Tran as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Ningning Deng as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Jodi Johnston as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Heather C. Harris as Lady V
Jeffrey Chase as U.S.S. Enterprise Security Guard
Paul K. Daniel as a Shuttle Pilot
Ser' Darius Blain as a U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
Heather Langenkamp as Moto
David C. Waite as U.S.S. Enterprise Crew
Melissa Paulo as a Bar Girl
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as a San Francisco Woman
Drew Grey as a San Francisco Bar Patron
Douglas Weng as a U.S.S. Vengeance Security Guard
Charles Haugk as a San Francisco Resident
Max Chernov as a San Francisco Resident
Marc Primiani as a San Francisco Resident
Jesper A. Inglis as a San Francisco Resident
Jacob Rhodes as a Nibiru Child
Kentucky Rhodes as a Nibiru Child
Anthony Wilson as Shaku
Eric Greitens as a Starfleet Ceremonial Guard
Melissa Steinman as a Starfleet Ceremonial Guard
Adam McCann as a Starfleet Ceremonial Guard
Jon Orvasky as a Starfleet Ceremonial Guard
Gerald W. Abrams as a Starfleet Memorial Admiral
James H. McGrath Jr. as a Starfleet Memorial Admiral

Stardate: 2259.55

Synopsis

In the year 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive: he exposed the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru whilst saving them from a cataclysmic volcanic eruption. Admiral Christopher Pike is reinstated as commanding officer with Kirk demoted to the rank of Commander and first officer. Commander Spock is transferred to another ship. Shortly after, the Section 31 installation in London is bombed, perpetrated by the renegade Starfleet operative John Harrison. Harrison then attacks Starfleet Headquarters in a jumpship during the emergency meeting about the situation, killing Pike and other senior officers. Kirk disables the jumpship, but Harrison escapes by transporting to Kronos, the homeworld of the hostile Klingons.

Admiral Alexander Marcus reinstates Kirk and Spock to the Enterprise with orders to kill Harrison. Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott protests allowing untested torpedoes on board the ship, and ultimately resigns his commission. Kirk assigns Pavel Chekov to replace Scotty. En route to Kronos, the Enterprise's warp capabilities mysteriously become disabled. Kirk leads a team with Spock and Uhura onto the planet, where they are ambushed by Klingon patrols. Harrison dispatches the Klingons, then surrenders after learning the number of torpedoes aboard the Enterprise.

Dr. Leonard McCoy and Marcus's daughter, Dr. Carol Marcus open a torpedo at Harrison's behest. Inside is a man in cryogenic stasis. Every torpedo aboard Enterprise contains a human in stasis. Harrison reveals his true identity as Khan, a genetically engineered superhuman awakened by Admiral Marcus from centuries of suspended animation to develop advanced weapons of war against the Klingon Empire. Khan reveals that Marcus had sabotaged the Enterprise's warp drive, intending for the Klingons to destroy the ship after it fired on Kronos, creating an act of war by the Klingon Empire. Khan also gives Kirk a set of coordinates. Kirk contacts Scotty on Earth and asks him to investigate. Scotty discovers they lead to a covert Starfleet facility near Jupiter.

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The Enterprise is intercepted by a much larger Federation warship, the USS Vengeance, commanded by Admiral Marcus. Marcus demands that Kirk deliver Khan, but the Enterprise, with a hastily repaired warp drive, flees to Earth to expose Marcus. After the Vengeance intercepts and disables the Enterprise near the Moon, Kirk reveals Carol's presence aboard the ship. Marcus forcibly transports Carol to the Vengeance before ordering the Enterprise's destruction, Kirk offers Khan and himself for the lives of his crew, but Marcus rejects Kirk's offer and orders Vengeance to fire when ready. However, Vengeance suddenly loses power, sabotaged by Scotty, who infiltrated the ship. With transporters down, Kirk and Khan, with the latter's knowledge of the warship's design, space-jump to the Vengeance. Spock contacts his older self, who warns that Khan is ruthless and untrustworthy, and, in another reality, Khan was only defeated at a terrible cost. Meanwhile, after capturing the bridge, Khan overpowers Kirk, Scott, and Carol, kills Marcus, and seizes control of the Vengeance.

Khan demands that Spock return his crew sealed in the cryogenic tubes in exchange for the Enterprise officers. Spock complies but surreptitiously removes Khan's frozen crew and arms the warheads. Khan beams Kirk, Scott, and Carol back aboard the Enterprise, but betrays their agreement by critically damaging the Enterprise; however, the Vengeance is disabled when the torpedoes detonate. With both starships caught in Earth's gravity, they plummet toward the surface. Kirk enters the radioactive reactor chamber to realign the warp core, saving the ship, but losing his life in the process.

Khan crashes the dying Vengeance into downtown San Francisco in an only partially successful attempt to destroy Starfleet headquarters. Khan escapes the wreckage as Spock transports down in pursuit. McCoy discovers that Khan's blood has regenerative properties that may save Kirk. With Uhura's help, Spock chases down and eventually subdues Khan, who is consequently arrested and re-frozen, and Kirk is revived.

Nearly one year later, Kirk speaks at the Enterprise's re-dedication ceremony. Khan is sealed in his cryogenic pod and stored with his compatriots. The Enterprise crew embarks on a five-year exploratory mission.

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