Here is the part where I say stuff and you wait for it to end so you can get to watching the video. Well, I think that about covers it then. Here is the final theatrical trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness:
From the 1 minute, 15 second mark, what the hell is this?
Good Enterprise on left, the Big, Bad Evil Enterprise on right
Tor.com is arguing the giant black ship, which Benedict Cumberbatch captains in the trailer, looks an awful lot like the Enterprise E, i.e., the version of the Enterprise used by the Next Generation crew in Star Trek: First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis. This doesn’t necessarily mean it is the Enterprise E, but the design similarities suggest it could be an Enterprise from the Mirror Universe. I don’t know about all that. Frankly, I’ve always thought the various star ships in Star Trek look pretty similar – saucer-shaped primary hull connected to a narrow or fat body supported by two elongated jet propulsion-esque parts. That describes more than just the Enterprise in the Star Trek universe. However, there is a definite similarity here, and it creates an effective, almost comedic juxtaposition in how out-gunned Kirk & company are going to be in their fight against not-Khan-but-probably-is-Khan.
The last time we saw Khan in the Star Trek universe he was on the deck of the Enterprise, which he had commandeered and was using as his own ship. Cumberbatch’s villain in the new movie happens to have a ship which looks an awful lot like the Enterprise. Just saying.
At the 1 minute, 56 second mark of the trailer Simon Pegg’s Scotty indicates the Enterprise might be destroyed or made unusable, likely as a result of Cumberbatch’s “You call that a ship? Now, this, this is a ship!” battle advantage. If such a thing does come to pass, it won’t be the first time the Enterprise has been destroyed in one of the movies or tv shows. Below is not a list of every single version of the various starships to be called Enterprise in Star Trek, but instead a list of those which we have actually seen destroyed in battle:
NCC-1701
The ship survived a bald woman (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and a bare-chested Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan) but could not make it past Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock).
NCC-1701-C
Oh, Enterprise C, we hardly knew ya. You showed up in the Next Generation episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” in which you, too, were destroyed in battle with the Klingons. As the Simpsons version of Kirk once uttered in a parody of Star Trek, “[exasperated sigh] Again with the Klingons?”
NCC-1701-D
We followed you through seven seasons of Next Generation and waited patiently during the speech-y Star Trek: Generations only to see you destroyed in battle with the Klingons. Holy crap, y’all. If Cumberbatch’s character does destroy the Enterprise in Into Darkness, you know what that means, right? He must be a Klingon. Granted, he does not look like a traditional Klingon, but that hasn’t stopped Star Trek before:
Original Series version of Klingons
Next Generation and all spin-offs’ version of Klingons. This is Worf. He is not a merry man.
Okay. I am only kind of joking, but I may actually be right. As I was writing this article Hollywood.com published a very thorough argument that Cumberbatch’s character in the new movie is a Klingon. Check it out here. Into Darkness is due to be released in the USA on 5/17/2013 with a mixture of earlier and later release dates for other regions of the world.
Theorize with us in the comments.
