"Star Trek Into Darkness" PG 13
Set about a year after the last one in the Abrams version of the Trek universe, Into Darkness pluges head first into a strange mission to a planet of pink trees and weird mud faced natives, and Kirk and crew running from them, while Spock attempts to freeze dry an active volcano.
On Earth, a mysterious Englishman offers to save a sick child using his special red matter, in this case some kind of blood transfusion, and then another darker British man blows up a building.
The Enterprise returns to Earth to find that London has been attacked, and Kirk fimds he's been reprimanded for completely botching a first contact with aq planet he should have not been to, called Nibiru for some reason. Pike gives him the riot act and then has him attend a board meeting. In this tower, a force of Admirals and such are all gathered, which in a time of terrorist uprising would seem not too swift on their part. Moments later, a rogue British guy attacks the conference with some kind of hovering ship and beams away to another planet. Wow, they can do that now.
Then this Admiral called Marcus offers Kirk a job to go hunt down the rogue agent, who allegedly is called Harrrison, and who can be found on Qonos, the Klingon planet. Kirk offers to round up Harrison because he wants revenge, but Marcus is an operative of Section 31 and has his own agenda.
Marcus sends his daughter aboard the Enterprise before she warps to Klingon space, initially as a spy, but this doesn't work out. The ship bnreaks down while carrying WMDs across the neutral zone, and could be decimated by Klingons, so Kirk leads a team on a captured ship they have to the planet to find Harrison,
On the way home, and somehow in contact with Scotty who has taken leave, the Enterprise learns that Harrison is one of the augments from a captured ship from 300 years in the past, and that his WDMS also carry survivors from the augment ship.
Then Admiral Marcus uses a secret dreadnaught ship allegedly called the Vengeance to find the Enterprise and do battle with it.
Assuming this is clearly not a retread of Space Seed, a classic episode of the series from 1967, and Wrath of Khan, a 1982 film, would be illogical, and to die hard Trek fans this might not make much sense at all, but considerably more than it would to non fans, who might be utterly baffled at the myriad references in this.
It seems they've been remaking TWOK since the classic movies, and even the last one. Now that they have it out of their system, can they please do something original. Lol.
Even so, the movie is a fun ride. New people to Star Trek will like the roller coaster ride and the quick witty action. Nitpickers will be all over it, but really that's the fun isn't it? At least there isn't a black hole this time.
They do have red matter again, but this time it's magic blood, which is central to the sometimes blatantly obvious plot, but it's a solid film anyway.
How many 2013 movies are going to have weapons pods with people aboard this summer? Oblivion, Star Trek 2013, etc...who knows.
Clearly it was not so much a mirror of TWOK as it was Space Seed the darker years, but it was worth it in the long run. Don't bother with the 3D though. It really doesn't need that.
And yes I know Harrison is supposed to be you know who but I didn't want to give it away.
Review by Adam Browne
PS. The Vengeance looks like my design of the Enterprise F from my web site Chimera, which wasn't up that long before I pulled it. It is also a silly name for a ship.It also closely resembles the Star Trek meets On Location dreadnaught, the Pepsi Free.
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