Comments on: Benedict Cumberbatch's role in Star Trek Into Darkness revealed! Or is it? [UPDATED]

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:42:00 +0000

Can Thomas Riker be in it, too?

By: John Jones

John Jones — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:17:00 +0000

Someone figures out a way to jump between realities, saving every redshirt at the moment of their “death,” only to turn them into an elite fighting force against the Federation. Guest appearance by Denise Crosby.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:17:00 +0000

I’m fond of the idea that it’s Gary Mitchell. Part of the second pilot (“Where No Man Has Gone Before”) had Kirk & Co. going out of their way to isolate the increasingly powerful Mitchell, or trying to, and I’d wondered if the destruction depicted in stills, the trailer, etc. showed what would have happened if Mitchell hadn’t been killed.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:21:00 +0000

All those other characters? Really just one — John Harrison. He is an immortal time-traveller. That’s the spoiler, right there. You’re welcome.

By: miasm

miasm — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:51:00 +0000

This is obviously happening in the holodeck. Moriarty replicates a big gun and site-to-site transports to the escape pods.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:33:00 +0000

Speak for yourself. Anything under 85° is cold.

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:27:00 +0000

So jealous!

By: SAMO1415

SAMO1415 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:24:00 +0000

I have been to see the Harrison collection twice at the Royal Observatory. They are quite impressive.

By: Timothy Krause

Timothy Krause — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Oh, yeah, that’s body temperature, lol. Good thing Starfleet flunked me for innumeracy unbecoming a cadet….

By: LintMan

LintMan — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:25:00 +0000

If it was up to me, I’d name the villain “Brannon Braga” and at the end of the movie the villain would get “evolved” into a lizard and then made into a pair of boots and belt for Kirk.

By: EeyoreX

EeyoreX — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:22:00 +0000

Somebody should mash up the Harrison mystery with that “Moriaty Was Real” meme, pronto.

By: Michael Polo

Michael Polo — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Danar did it best

By: Punchcard

Punchcard — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Personal Theory: Totally is Khan, but this is not a reimagining of “Wrath” it is a reimagining of “Space Seed”.

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Mmm-HMM! Highly recommended reading: ”Longitude” by Dava Sobel.

By: Scurra

Scurra — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Of course, that’s assuming that TOS was “real” at all (let’s suspend disbelief for a moment here!) My favourite retcon theory is that most of the adventures of Kirk, Spock et al were actually all Academy Textbook missions intended to illustrate different ways to get things horribly wrong, using these idealised abstracted characters who clearly weren’t representative of the actual people, so there was no real timeline to mess with anyway…

By: cjporkchop

cjporkchop — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:33:00 +0000

The Enterprise brig is that warm? I would expect a more comfortable 72F.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:26:00 +0000

Not without some unfortunate side effects. For example, he clearly forgot that Jim Kirk was dead despite the fact that he was present at the time.

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:19:00 +0000

he's probably just Ben Finney. (here's hoping i'm wrong -sigh-)

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:10:00 +0000

Suspend them in a transporter buffer.

Scotty did it for 80 years or so.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Well, mister security expert, if you’ve got any ideas about how one could possibly confine a person in a small room without the aid of forcefields then I’m sure we’d all love to hear them.

By: SAMO1415

SAMO1415 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Perhaps the name originated from John Harrison, the clock maker and inventor of the chronometer – the first pendulum-less clocks with humidity control for use on sailing ships to help determine longitude.

By: Timothy Krause

Timothy Krause — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:55:00 +0000

But will he penetrate to the critical brewery decks and the vital fermenting centers?

By: SAMO1415

SAMO1415 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:52:00 +0000

That would be rather hot and uncomfortable, actually. Due to the body’s heat generation and the various modes of heat transfer, we feel a comfort equilibrium at a lower temperature (low 70s F I believe).

So maybe that would be a good way to make him feel slightly irritated.

By: tofagerl

tofagerl — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Don’t worry, I’m sure none of the hundreds of workers on this ship is a plant. And there’s NO WAY the power is going to mysterically disappear.

By: Roger Strong

Roger Strong — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:38:00 +0000

The captain of the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations was John Harriman. Now we know where the name originated.

By: mesocosm

mesocosm — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:33:00 +0000

As with Lost, I expect that the solution to the mystery will prove to be less interesting than the mystery itself.

By: ando bobando

ando bobando — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Ooooh, I like the haircut. He sure *looks* evil now.

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Likely a new villain. I don’t know how much after the last movie this one takes place, but unless this takes place 12 years after the previous movie, this still takes place before the original series. People were determined that the next movie was going to be a TOS villain because of those non-canon comic books that re-told TOS episodes with the new Enterprise and “new” crew. People have been saying the next movie would be a reboot of Wrath of Khan since 2009.

I could end up being totally wrong, but people need to keep in mind that TNG, Enterprise, and the 2009 movie totally changed the timeline. Ach, the Trekkies who got upset over the Borg being on Enterprise…sheesh, people, it’s part of the First Contact continuity. As if Star Trek and continuity always go together. :->

EDIT: It does crack me up that the villain name they floated is that of a fairly famous screenwriter, responsible for, among other things, the two SciFi Dune miniseries. :-> I’d have named the villain Rick Bozeman if it’d been me.

By: Timothy Krause

Timothy Krause — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:23:00 +0000

“Revenge is a dish best served cold, yet it’s not very cold–indeed, a lovely Federation-regulated Starship mean temperature of 98.6 F–in the Enterprise brig.”

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Or, rather: