Star Trek Into Darkness

This review will have spoilers!!

Before we dive into the review, I wanted to note that a good recollection of Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan will really help you to enjoy this movie much more.  This movie really plays off of the plot of that movie in various reverse scenarios. This for some die hard Star Trek fans made them dislike the movie. For me, I thought it made the movie great!

The movie starts right off action packed on a distant world. The crew of the Enterprise is trying to prevent a volcano from destroying a species without that species knowing. This was a very visually stunning planet and also a complete failure on Kirk’s part. They save the species but at the sake of revealing themselves to a primitive species who immediately see them as gods. This causes Kirk to lose the Enterprise and Pike to regain it.

In London, a building gets bombed by an unknown assailant, which puts all the Star Fleet big wigs into a meeting. This meeting is also bombed causing massive casualties including Pike. Kirk than regains the Enterprise to seek and kill the person on orders by Admiral Marcus. The assailant went to Kronos, home world of the Klingons. At this point we know the assailant as Harrison.

After tracking Harrison’s position the crew gets trapped by a group of Klingon War Birds. They land. Uhura tries to prevent their execution by speaking to the Klingons. Total failure and just as you think the crew is dead. Harrison comes and kills all the Klingons by himself. He than surrenders to Kirk after being informed that torpedoes were pointed at his position.

Once imprisoned on the Enterprise we find out that Harrison is really Khan, a genetically-engineered superhuman awoken by Marcus from a 300-year suspended animation. We also learn each of the torpedoes has one of his sleeping brethren inside. The movie really picks it pace up here.

Kirk decides to not execute Kahn or turn him over for execution which leads Marcus and his new state of the art battleship to attack the enterprise, revealing Marcus as an enemy as well. Khan and Kirk must work together to save the day. After seizing the bridge of Marcus’s ship, Khan overpowers Kirk and his crew and kills Marcus. He returns Kirk and the crew in a trade for the torpedoes and attacks the Enterprise. But Spock had a surprise destroying Marcus’s ship.

The battle really damaged the Enterprise and it is falling towards Earth with a warp core breech. Here is where the reverse scene occurs. Kirk enters the chamber this time around and Spock gets the revenge. This scene really pumped me up and made me want Spock to kill Khan. Instead Spock captures Khan and Kirk is revived using his blood. The fight scene between Khan and Spock was great!

One year later, Kirk addresses a gathering memorializing the events, reciting his “where no one has gone before” speech. Khan is resealed in his cryogenic pod and stored with his crew, and the recommissioned Enterprise  departs on a five-year mission.

I loved this movie and give it 9 out of 10 stars. My second favorite Star Trek movie behind the original Wrath of Khan. Every actor once again nailed their roles, the intensity was present at various spots, the movie had a nice flow, and the visuals were great!

Thank you for reading this edition of Eye Saw It. Eye will see you later.