‘STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS’ IMAGES like woah. Plus! Cliche plot update!

More Star Trek Into Darkness images than you could fit in Santa’s sleigh. Also, it’s got a teeny plot description and Oh My Goodness it is generic action movie flair.

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And, here’s the new plot description from the text of the article (hat tip to Bleeding Cool).

with Earth under terrorist attack from Benedict Cumberbatch’s ex-Starfleet employee John Harrison, Kirk is this time forced into a rash decision that breaks a critical Starfleet command, puts his crew in danger & costs him his captain’s chair. Now out of uniform and dressed down in space civvies of black leather jackets and boots, our three heroes have separated from the Enterprise and headed off on a mission to try and rectify his mistake…

Star Trek Into Darkness opens May 17.

I’m certain that the plot is more than Rogue Agent x Villain Lets Himself Get Caught, but relying on those two conventions is pretty boring regardless of whatever accoutrements they work around them. It’s lazy.

Regarding Abrams. He’s visually gorgeous, but as a writer he’s one of the most overrated in Hollywood. Him and his team of lackeys almost submarined the original (and fantastic) Trek they made with his wormhole nonsense. You could hear the ship plummeting as they had Old As fuck Spock on the screen. Saying “he works in mysterious ways” is just an alley-oop (at least when I see it) for me to respond “and most of them are self-indulgent and back patting nonsense.”

I don’t doubt I’m going to jerk off to this movie, and in fact I usually like the “ROGUE AGENT!!!1111″ trope, I just expected more out of the Trek sequel off the cuff. I could be overreacting, but those two tropes wrapped around each other has me at least initially rolling my eyes.