Pictured – Darkness
Hooray! No more having to awkwardly refer to the movie as “the upcoming J.J. Abrams Star Trek sequel”!
So, Star Trek Into Darkness — could this title reveal something about the plot? Will the movie be a Star Trek take on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness? The novel (which was also the basis for Apocalypse Now and tons of other stuff) is about a crew sailing a boat into unsettling new territory in search of a man who’s gone dangerously mad with power and set himself up as a God. Pretty much sounds like a Star Trek plot already.
Or maybe the title isn’t a literary reference and the movie will just be super 90s-style dark and gritty. All the uniforms will be covered in pouches and the actors will have prosthetics attached to their foreheads to give them extra frown-lines.
What do you folks think of Star Trek Into Darkness? Awesome title or awkward? Is it okay for a Star Trek movie not to have a colon in the title? Hit the comments if you’re up for discussing these heavy topics.
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Maybe that all finally get to have sex with Uhura?
LOL!
The Heart of Darkness theory sounds solid compared to rumors about the potential plot. IIRC, Benedict Cumberbatch is not rumored to be playing Khan, but Gary Mitchell, a crew member from TOS who gets injured by a barrier at the edge of the galaxy and it gives him godlike powers.
Side note; in my 15+ years of use, that previous post is quite possibly the nerdiest things I’ve ever written on any medium of the internet.
Yeah, it syncs up nicely with the Gary Mitchell rumors.
So is using “Dark” in the title now the hot thing to do with sequels?
Just wait until the next sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness Rising, where Khan is played by a guy doing a weird accent that no one can understand
DaRooster wins this comment section.
I think it would be awesome to add the Harlem Globetrotters into the mix and never explain why. Like they could be an away team all bouncing basketballs and nobody gives it a second thought.
“Meadowlark, you’re with me. We’re beaming to the planet’s surface.”
Zoinks!
Awkward! One does not Star Trek Into Darkness, Night Stalker Into Basement, Fantastic Voyage Without Certainty, Vision Quest Into Wetness… OK, maybe that one, IIRC…
Awkward!
Does this mean there will be the opposite of lens flare?
They’re going to bring Shatner back to play Kirk (Kirkz would have been a little too on the nose). Kirk loses his mind and takes over a colony on Cambodia 4. Starfleet then sends a young Will Riker from the future to kill him.
I think the final scene will go a little something like this.
(Shatner shows up 50 pounds overweight, and loses his wig on the day of shooting)
Kirk: Are you an space assassin?
Will: I’m Starfleet.
Kirk: You’re neither. You’re an errand boy, sent by Ferengi’s to collect the latinum.
Artists interpretation of the scene.
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Mad Paint skillz, yo.