The official title for Star Trek 2 was revealed by Paramount today, and while I never thought I'd say this about anything or anyone (okay, perhaps a couple of times), I really hope it's dealing with colon issues. The title is Star Trek Into Darkness -- four words, a proper noun that consists of two words ("Star Trek") that is now an active verb ("Trek") that makes this title a prepositional phrase ("Into Darkness"). I really hope that someone mistakenly left out the colon in between Star Trek and Into Darkness, because I think we're approaching Pun Territory, Captain. (via Movieline)

  • viveleroi

    They were saying they wanted to avoid using a colon as well as giving it a number. It likely reads worse than it will feel when we see it on posters and other titles – I’m foresee a tiny font “STAR TREK” above much larger letting for “INTO DARKNESS”

  • Patrick Bogen

    Reminds me of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Or Barbra Streisand’s Nuts.

  • http://profiles.google.com/gherghetta Robin Gherghetta

    Or is this title trying to underline that “Star Trek” literally means star trek, instead of just being a totally abstract sequence of letters symbolizing the franchise? (like the disney logo is when you’re a child (and well into adolescence for me at least))

    • WhyBother

      I don’t get what you mean. The lettering “Disney” is perfectly clear: backwards-G-i-δ-N-E-p. Disney

  • vtblues

    I think a thorough colonoscopy  is in order here

    • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

      Well, the show is 46 years old

  • spacemunky

    They don’t need a colon, they’re going to punctuate it with lens flare.

    • corydodt

      Nothing says “Into Darkness” like lens flare.

  • iamlegion

    Anyone wanna Fire Walk With Me?

    • http://twitter.com/dj_jorjinho Daniel Lopes

      you sir are awesome. took the words right out of my skull.

    • John Vance

      I’d totally watch a David Lynch-directed Star Trek film.

      • Balance of Power

         I think after his experience working on Dune, David Lynch is done with science fiction. Still, one can dream…right?

        • http://profiles.google.com/alexfkraus Alex Kraus

           Fun fact: George Lucas originally asked David Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi. Would have been a very different movie, methinks.

          • Balance of Power

             Funny how things work out. Originally Lucas was trying to get an adaptation of Dune made but when he couldn’t get the rights he developed Star Wars instead.

  • spejic

    I think numerals are best. For example, something like “I Pissed All Over STAR TREK Before, And Now I Am Doing A Number 2″.

  • http://twitter.com/adamlcox Adam L. Cox

    Eh, J.J. Abrahms is to Star Trek as Count Chocula is to prime rib.  Which is to say, I don’t know what they’re doing hanging out together, either.

  • annoyingmouse

    Seriously, nobody is going to be “that guy”? This is still the internet, yes? Nobody is going to point out the detail that is frustrating the hell out of your nerd mind? Nobody? Ok I’ll be the one. The official title of Star Trek 2 is The Wrath of Khan. This title is referring to Star Trek 12. Sadly they haven’t gone with my suggested title Star trek 12: Adventures of a Boring Pedant…

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/65CSAR3QATRNKJW4NYNB2BESZE JohnQPublic

       thank you.  I thought it, but I hoped someone else would fall on that grenade for the rest of us.

      • James Allgood

        That one where they had to save the whales was a grenade someone needed to jump on.

    • Labbit

      Star Trek XII

  • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

    Star Trekkin’ Across The Universe?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE 

    Had to be done

  • http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

    So many film makers in the science fiction genre got their start working on John Carpenter/Dan O’Bannon’s Dark Star… 

    Maybe a little insider reference? Though obviously more the reference to Conrad. I guess that makes Benedict Cumberbatch likely some form of Kurtz. 

    I wish it was Harvey Mudd.

    Probably Gary Mitchell?

    If they ever bring back Khan they should cast Nestor Carbonell.

  • corydodt

    Also, this is for most of the snarky denizens of this thread, myself included.

    http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-film-as-fun-watchable,14333/

  • paolonorte

    This thread should be subtitled “Into Dorkness”

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/NCX2LUC6UXQNVHDSQ2QOKO26MY James

    I blame Lindelof.

    • https://jschrab.myopenid.com/ Malic

       …and so you should!

  • Aleknevicus

    Title aside, I’m hoping they come up with a flawed premise and then spend the entire movie bending the storyline and any sense of logic and reason to get themselves out of that very premise.

    You know, like the first one.

  • http://borborygmist.influxofdust.com/ Wayne Dyer

    I was hoping for Star Trek: The Hands of Fate

    • Balance of Power

       Ensign Torgo, you’re the laziest man on Mars!

  • Just_Ok

    Star Trek 12: The Search for Profit.

  • Donald Petersen

    Aw, it ain’t so bad.  Can’t one trek on into something?  Merriam-Webster cites trek as an intransitive verb before the noun reference.  So you can, in a spiritual sense, hop into one’s starship and star trek on down into darkness with a spring in one’s step and a tribble in one’s heart.

    I wonder if Paramount saw what New Line did with their sequel to the remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth, cheekily dubbing it Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. For what it’s worth, New Line left the colon off the poster, too.

    I think I’m just as unlikely to watch STID as I was J2TMI.

  • Brainspore

    I really hope that someone mistakenly left out the colon in between Star Trek and Into Darkness…

    The good news is that there is a colon. The bad news is that the title is written as “STAR: Trek Into Darkness.“

  • social_maladroit

    Here’s an idea: let Joss Whedon write and direct an episode.

    [Over the ship-wide intercom] “This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then — explode.”

  • noah django

    i LOVE colon!

    • http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

      Didn’t Cristobal Colon invent the Amerigo Vespa or something?

  • http://billmcgonigle.com bill_mcgonigle

    If Spock gets lucky (as rumored), there’s going to be hell to pay on this title. Why would Paramount want that?

  • show me

    I think the colon is implied when you say “Into Darkness”…