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Note: The Digital Copy code is valid till September, 2023. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. A good portion of Trekkies (or Trekkers, depending on one's level of Star Trek obsession) have special affection for episodes of the original TV series that related to Earth and other-Earth cultures visited by the crew of the Enterprise , version 1.0. Some of the shows unfolded in distorted forms of the past, some in the present day of Star Trek 's future reality. Director J.J. Abrams recognized the importance of this relationship in his origin-story reboot of the franchise in 2009, and in Star Trek Into Darkness he has made it an even greater touchstone to the roots of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's defining philosophy from nearly 50 years ago. The human home world is key to the plot of this spectacularly bold leap into Star Trek lore, which cleverly continues along the alternate path that was established as separate from the "original" Star Trek universe in Abrams's first whiz-bang crack at advancing the mythology. But it's not just Earth that is cool and imperiled in this rendering of adventure in the 23rd century; Into Darkness also plays with the original conceit that Earthlings were member to a multi-species United Federation of Planets ruled by a "Prime Directive" of noninterference with other civilizations. The conflict comes when rogue elements in the Earth-based Starfleet Command hunger to shift focus from peaceful exploration to militarization, a concept that is anathema to the crew of the Enterprise and her ongoing mission. The new cast is again inventively reunited, each of them further investing their characters with traits that reveal novel acting choices while staying true to the caricatures that are ingrained in our popular culture. The interplay between Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock is deeper, and Zoe Saldana as Uhura is a solid third in their relationship. John Cho (Sulu), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), and Karl Urban (McCoy) all have standout roles in the overall ensemble mystique as well as the plot-heavy machinations of this incarnation's narrative. Fortunately, the burdens of the story are well served by some important additions to the cast. Benedict Cumberbatch's Shakespearean aura, ferociously imperious gaze, and graceful athleticism make him a formidable villain as the mysterious Starfleet operative John Harrison. Harrison has initiated a campaign of terror on Earth before leading the Enterprise to even greater dangers in the enemy territory of Klingon-controlled space. That his background may make dedicated Trekkies/Trekkers gasp is just one acknowledgment of the substantial and ingrained legacy Star Trek has borne. There are many references, nods and winks to those with deep reverence for the folklore (some of them perhaps a little too close to being inside-baseball), though the fantastical and continually exciting story stands as an expertly crafted tale for complete neophytes. Another new face is Peter Weller--iconically famous in sci-fi-dom as RoboCop --here playing a steely, authoritative Starfleet bigwig who may also be following a hidden agenda. Not only is he running a covert operation, he's also at the helm of a fearsome secret starship that looms over the Enterprise like a shark poised to devour its prey. Which brings us to the awesome CGI effects driving the dazzling visual style of Into Darkness and the endlessly fascinating cosmos it makes real. The wow factor extends from the opening set piece on an alien world of primitive humanoids, garish vegetation, and a roiling volcano to the finale of destruction in a future San Francisco that is elegantly outfitted with gleaming-spired skyscrapers and all manner of flying vehicles. (London also gets a breathtaking 23rd-century makeover). With a coolness that glistens in every immaculately composed shot, the movie never forgets that humanism and creativity make the myriad design details and hyper-technology pop out as much more than eye candy. The biggest achievement of Star Trek Into Darkness is that it hews to the highest standard of a highly celebrated tradition. Though Kirk and co. may bend it a little, the Prime Directive remains unbroken. --Ted Fry

Review: A 40 Year Star Trek Fan Says "Simply Amazing" - I am just back from the theater watching 'Star Trek Into Darkness' and I think that one word describes this movie - amazing. I have seen many negative reviews, saying this movie was cliched, had too many special effects, and was too much of a knockoff on earlier plots. To all of those who have seen this movie and didn't think it was wonderful I can say only one thing - you are not a true Star Trek fan. I have been watching the show for close to 40 years and found this movie to be among the best of all the movies ever done in this series. First of all, let's get some things out there. The special effects were excellent. The sound quality and music was phenomenal. While I was concerned that there might be too much action in this movie, in reality I felt it fit very nicely into the plot and didn't overwhelm the movie. The acting was great. The characters who played the classic character parts from the 2009 movie all were stellar in their roles in this movie. Some highlights included: - a welcome expansion of Uhura's role in this movie (when you see her you will be happy she is on our side!!) - the continued crotchetiness of McCoy, including one of his "I'm a doctor, not a...." comments - another very humorous rendition of Scotty, including several classic comments Benedict Cumberbatch was chilling as John Harrison (Khan), although I'm not sure he 'looked' the part of Khan, given the incredible job that Ricardo Montalban did with this character in both the original "Space Seed" and in "Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan". There were many other excellent performances, including the actors who played Admiral Pike, Admiral Marcus and Dr. Carol Marcus. Now to the plot. It was an ingenious reboot of the entire Khan space opera. It took elements of the original episode and the movie and incorporated them into a new take on one of the best story concepts in the entire Star Trek franchise. It also reminded one of the episodes from Star Trek : Enterprise where the Augments were first described. The plot was very reminiscent of many things, including the entire Khan story, the notion of a senior Starfleet officer going bad (like "The Pegasus" in TNG), and the cinematic extravaganza that occurs near the end when Kirk sacrifices his own life to save the crew. I think it is very interesting how in this reboot Kirk dies and Spock lives, while in TWOK, it was the other way around. I enjoyed JJ Abrams' approach in solving this problem, so more movies could come forth from this one. Most importantly, this movie did everything that a great Star Trek movie should do - it involved a great storyline, good character development, and a fully satisfying villain who the crew had to defeat. It also paid homage to many things about Star Trek which made it so great. It was funny, scary, action-packed, and riveting. Even though you knew in the end that the crew would prevail, it didn't stop you from gripping the edge of your seat as you waited for it to happen. Put simply, it caused Star Trek to shine yet again and I fully believe that Gene Roddenberry is looking down smiling about this one. If you haven't seen the movie yet, please go see it and relax and enjoy it. Don't overanalyze it or sit there and pick it apart. Just watch the movie and be happy that there are people who love this franchise so much that they keep on making new movies. I think that this movie will go down as among the best of the series. Finally, I sincerely hope that at the end when it seems like the 5-year mission was going to be launched, that this means there will be more of these movies to come. There are several great story lines from the original series that could use a fresh reboot, and I hope to see one of those someday.
Review: Great Alternate Universe Star Trek - SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! You have been warned!!! Others have detailed the plot specifics so I will go with my own perspective as a lifelong Star Trek fan who started watching TOS in syndicated rerun in the mid-70's. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is my favorite Star Trek movie by far and it is in my list of the Top 10 films of all-time. So I was a bit concerned when I read the rumors on the Internet that Cumberbatch was going to reprise this iconic Science Fiction role in Star Trek: Into Darkness. I felt that JJ & company needed to do something different since they had created an alternate timeline with the first movie. I think the writing team had given lots of thought of parallel universes and how certain points and people are fixed in time in all possible universes. The work they did on Fringe pushed them to do several seasons worth of story about an alternate universe. Peter was their fixed person in the Fringe universe who impacted both realities. The writers looked at Khan the same way. I had to think about the plot threads of terrorism, betrayal, security, revenge, optimism, family and trust that were weaved through Into Darkness after seeing it Wednesday night. I then read the novelization and the prequel graphic novel to gain a better perspective before I went and watched the movie again today. The main themes hit by this story are many such as Kirk being too young, impetuous, inexperienced, undisciplined, egotistical, etc., to command a starship effectively; Spock still suffering emotionally from the traumatic loss of his home-world and his mother while trying to connect with his erratic, emotional, impulsive Captain; Starfleet Command reacting badly to the devastating terror attack by Nero against Vulcan and Starfleet in the previous film causing Starfleet Command to turn to extraordinary extra-legal actions to bring security to the Federation despite undermining the very freedoms and ethics espoused by the Federation (Section 31); Scotty being the one crew member (besides Spock) willing to take a moral stand with Kirk over crossing the line of legality and ethics while Kirk & Starfleet are preoccupied with revenge against Khan. So to me this wasn't a rehash of Wrath of Khan because that story was about coming to terms with growing older and feeling that life had passed you by. Kirk's past comes back to haunt him and the Enterprise and Kirk finally had to face his own Kobyashi Maru test with Spock's sacrifice. Khan was motivated by his need for vengeance against Kirk over the loss of his wife and being left marooned on a doomed planet. This too was an issue from Khan's past he could not let go and it was his undoing. ST:ID is about surviving the viccitudes of youth and learning from your mistakes to mature into a better sentient being connected to your friends and society. Kirk had Pike to place his faith and trust in him even when Kirk had royally screwed up from the hubris of flagrantly violating the Prime Directive on Nibiru even as Kirk failed to recognize this error. It took Pike's death and the pursuit of Khan to bring Kirk to the realization that he had to change his worldview and behavior. Spock was struggling with his inner demons over the loss of Vulcan and his mother. He also made a personal journey of self-discovery in ST:ID especially after Kirk sacrificed himself to save the ship. Spock is filled with rage and pursues Khan with a fury never seen before. He helps save his friend Jim Kirk and he can now acknowledge this friendship and let it evolve. Starfleet Command reacted like the US did after 9/11. They undermined their own principles in the name of imagined security. Admiral Marcus had sent out ships looking for resources to help Starfleet defend the Federation and they found the Botany Bay. Admiral Marcus thought he could exploit Khan's genetically engineered superior intellect and his capacity for violence to give the clandestine Section 31 (think CIA/Homeland Security/Special Forces) an advantage in building a capacity to take on the biggest perceived threat to the Federation for Admiral Marcus... the Klingon Empire. Thus you get the top-secret special prototype photon torpedoes and the built for combat USS Vengeance along with who knows what else that didn't get mentioned. You get incidents manipulated to provoke a state of war with the Klingons. All justified in the name of security. Scotty was just awesome in this story. He was a moral compass while getting in on the action with the sabotage of the USS Vengeance. He also got some more great comedic scenes and lines. I was a bit disappointed that Bones didn't get more involved in this story but since it involved more technological issues I can see why Scotty was used rather than McCoy. Bones still got in some great metaphors and scenes and you know he can deliver Gorn babies in a crisis situation. Sulu gets a taste of the command chair and Checkov gets to flex his savant genius abilities as Scotty's replacement (temporarily) as Chief Engineer. Uhura has some issues with Spock, talks up some Klingons, battles some Klingons & makes some tough long distance calls. Getting a young Carol Marcus was cool and they didn't force her to be romantically involved with Kirk, She gets to join the crew and maybe they will hook up in the next installment. The Big E gets a refit to repair her battle damage and the crew of the USS Enterprise embark on the start of what should be an eventful, glorious and historic Five-Year Mission to Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before. So I give Into Darkness a 9.235 out of 10. My biggest issue was with how long it took to warp to Kronos and then back to Earth. Unless warp speed had improved by a factor of 100 over the old Star Trek this was a plot device that was just way out of step with the rest of the movie. So other than that I am cool with the rest of the film elements as they were explained by the prequel graphic novel and in the novelization book for the film. I look forward to Star Trek 3 to come out in May of 2016 to be a part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek!!! **************DVD Release Addendum************* I was really excited about the Blu-ray release of Into Darkness. I had read about the multitude of extras that JJ Abrams and his team shot for inclusion with the Blu-ray that would be exciting for the fans. Apparently the good folks in the marketing department at Paramount took a look at this treasure of bonus material and saw a way to extort the fans for even more profit. They struck deals to parcel out these bonus features to different retailers forcing fans to buy a plethora of copies to collect all of the bonus features. I didn't cancel my order because this isn't desertcart's fault and I do want the awesome phaser. I won't be buying these extra copies to line Paramount's pockets full of gold-pressed latinum. Actually, if Paramount had an ounce of integrity they would make a public apology for trying to screw over the fans of Star Trek who have made them profits that would make a Ferengi blush and offer a Blu-ray disc with the bonus material to make up for this error in judgement. The website Digital Bits is where I was alerted to this shameful avarice. It stated the following: "Yes... the seven featurettes listed in the press release are basically everything you get on the disc, aside from the usual DVD copy, Digital Copy, UltraViolet copy, Xerox copy and what not. The featurettes amount to about 42 minutes of EPK-style behind the scenes material. There's no commentary, no deleted scenes, no trailers... which would be bad enough. Except... It turns out that more extras were created for this release - more featurettes and even an audio commentary with director J.J. Abrams and members of his crew. None of it is available on the wide release Blu-ray or Blu-ray 3D SKUs. The commentary can only be found as an iTunes "extra" download. And those extra featurettes? Some are on a Target bonus disc. Some are on a Best Buy bonus disc. And some are only available via CinemaNow and VUDU downloads. That's right: More than half of the special features created for Star Trek Into Darkness were used by Paramount's marketing team as retailer exclusives. It's a terrible way to treat your consumers, who are sometimes spending $30 or more for a Blu-ray, expecting to get a little genuine value for their money. And no, six different versions of the exact same movie isn't value. If you're a serious Blu-ray enthusiast - or for that matter a Star Trek fan of any kind - all you care about when you buy a Blu-ray is getting the movie in pristine quality with lots of extras. Though its A/V quality is exceptional, in all other respects the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray is an insult." (to see the entire column, visit www - thedigitalbits - com /columns/my-two-cents/082813_1415)

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Peter Weller, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana Contributor Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Peter Weller, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana See more |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 24,483 Reviews |
| Format | 3D, Color, Digital copy, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 2 hours and 11 minutes |

## Product Details

- **Format:** 3D, Color, Digital copy, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Genre:** Science Fiction & Fantasy
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 11 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A 40 Year Star Trek Fan Says "Simply Amazing"
*by F***O on May 20, 2013*

I am just back from the theater watching 'Star Trek Into Darkness' and I think that one word describes this movie - amazing. I have seen many negative reviews, saying this movie was cliched, had too many special effects, and was too much of a knockoff on earlier plots. To all of those who have seen this movie and didn't think it was wonderful I can say only one thing - you are not a true Star Trek fan. I have been watching the show for close to 40 years and found this movie to be among the best of all the movies ever done in this series. First of all, let's get some things out there. The special effects were excellent. The sound quality and music was phenomenal. While I was concerned that there might be too much action in this movie, in reality I felt it fit very nicely into the plot and didn't overwhelm the movie. The acting was great. The characters who played the classic character parts from the 2009 movie all were stellar in their roles in this movie. Some highlights included: - a welcome expansion of Uhura's role in this movie (when you see her you will be happy she is on our side!!) - the continued crotchetiness of McCoy, including one of his "I'm a doctor, not a...." comments - another very humorous rendition of Scotty, including several classic comments Benedict Cumberbatch was chilling as John Harrison (Khan), although I'm not sure he 'looked' the part of Khan, given the incredible job that Ricardo Montalban did with this character in both the original "Space Seed" and in "Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan". There were many other excellent performances, including the actors who played Admiral Pike, Admiral Marcus and Dr. Carol Marcus. Now to the plot. It was an ingenious reboot of the entire Khan space opera. It took elements of the original episode and the movie and incorporated them into a new take on one of the best story concepts in the entire Star Trek franchise. It also reminded one of the episodes from Star Trek : Enterprise where the Augments were first described. The plot was very reminiscent of many things, including the entire Khan story, the notion of a senior Starfleet officer going bad (like "The Pegasus" in TNG), and the cinematic extravaganza that occurs near the end when Kirk sacrifices his own life to save the crew. I think it is very interesting how in this reboot Kirk dies and Spock lives, while in TWOK, it was the other way around. I enjoyed JJ Abrams' approach in solving this problem, so more movies could come forth from this one. Most importantly, this movie did everything that a great Star Trek movie should do - it involved a great storyline, good character development, and a fully satisfying villain who the crew had to defeat. It also paid homage to many things about Star Trek which made it so great. It was funny, scary, action-packed, and riveting. Even though you knew in the end that the crew would prevail, it didn't stop you from gripping the edge of your seat as you waited for it to happen. Put simply, it caused Star Trek to shine yet again and I fully believe that Gene Roddenberry is looking down smiling about this one. If you haven't seen the movie yet, please go see it and relax and enjoy it. Don't overanalyze it or sit there and pick it apart. Just watch the movie and be happy that there are people who love this franchise so much that they keep on making new movies. I think that this movie will go down as among the best of the series. Finally, I sincerely hope that at the end when it seems like the 5-year mission was going to be launched, that this means there will be more of these movies to come. There are several great story lines from the original series that could use a fresh reboot, and I hope to see one of those someday.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Alternate Universe Star Trek
*by R***A on May 19, 2013*

SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! You have been warned!!! Others have detailed the plot specifics so I will go with my own perspective as a lifelong Star Trek fan who started watching TOS in syndicated rerun in the mid-70's. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is my favorite Star Trek movie by far and it is in my list of the Top 10 films of all-time. So I was a bit concerned when I read the rumors on the Internet that Cumberbatch was going to reprise this iconic Science Fiction role in Star Trek: Into Darkness. I felt that JJ & company needed to do something different since they had created an alternate timeline with the first movie. I think the writing team had given lots of thought of parallel universes and how certain points and people are fixed in time in all possible universes. The work they did on Fringe pushed them to do several seasons worth of story about an alternate universe. Peter was their fixed person in the Fringe universe who impacted both realities. The writers looked at Khan the same way. I had to think about the plot threads of terrorism, betrayal, security, revenge, optimism, family and trust that were weaved through Into Darkness after seeing it Wednesday night. I then read the novelization and the prequel graphic novel to gain a better perspective before I went and watched the movie again today. The main themes hit by this story are many such as Kirk being too young, impetuous, inexperienced, undisciplined, egotistical, etc., to command a starship effectively; Spock still suffering emotionally from the traumatic loss of his home-world and his mother while trying to connect with his erratic, emotional, impulsive Captain; Starfleet Command reacting badly to the devastating terror attack by Nero against Vulcan and Starfleet in the previous film causing Starfleet Command to turn to extraordinary extra-legal actions to bring security to the Federation despite undermining the very freedoms and ethics espoused by the Federation (Section 31); Scotty being the one crew member (besides Spock) willing to take a moral stand with Kirk over crossing the line of legality and ethics while Kirk & Starfleet are preoccupied with revenge against Khan. So to me this wasn't a rehash of Wrath of Khan because that story was about coming to terms with growing older and feeling that life had passed you by. Kirk's past comes back to haunt him and the Enterprise and Kirk finally had to face his own Kobyashi Maru test with Spock's sacrifice. Khan was motivated by his need for vengeance against Kirk over the loss of his wife and being left marooned on a doomed planet. This too was an issue from Khan's past he could not let go and it was his undoing. ST:ID is about surviving the viccitudes of youth and learning from your mistakes to mature into a better sentient being connected to your friends and society. Kirk had Pike to place his faith and trust in him even when Kirk had royally screwed up from the hubris of flagrantly violating the Prime Directive on Nibiru even as Kirk failed to recognize this error. It took Pike's death and the pursuit of Khan to bring Kirk to the realization that he had to change his worldview and behavior. Spock was struggling with his inner demons over the loss of Vulcan and his mother. He also made a personal journey of self-discovery in ST:ID especially after Kirk sacrificed himself to save the ship. Spock is filled with rage and pursues Khan with a fury never seen before. He helps save his friend Jim Kirk and he can now acknowledge this friendship and let it evolve. Starfleet Command reacted like the US did after 9/11. They undermined their own principles in the name of imagined security. Admiral Marcus had sent out ships looking for resources to help Starfleet defend the Federation and they found the Botany Bay. Admiral Marcus thought he could exploit Khan's genetically engineered superior intellect and his capacity for violence to give the clandestine Section 31 (think CIA/Homeland Security/Special Forces) an advantage in building a capacity to take on the biggest perceived threat to the Federation for Admiral Marcus... the Klingon Empire. Thus you get the top-secret special prototype photon torpedoes and the built for combat USS Vengeance along with who knows what else that didn't get mentioned. You get incidents manipulated to provoke a state of war with the Klingons. All justified in the name of security. Scotty was just awesome in this story. He was a moral compass while getting in on the action with the sabotage of the USS Vengeance. He also got some more great comedic scenes and lines. I was a bit disappointed that Bones didn't get more involved in this story but since it involved more technological issues I can see why Scotty was used rather than McCoy. Bones still got in some great metaphors and scenes and you know he can deliver Gorn babies in a crisis situation. Sulu gets a taste of the command chair and Checkov gets to flex his savant genius abilities as Scotty's replacement (temporarily) as Chief Engineer. Uhura has some issues with Spock, talks up some Klingons, battles some Klingons & makes some tough long distance calls. Getting a young Carol Marcus was cool and they didn't force her to be romantically involved with Kirk, She gets to join the crew and maybe they will hook up in the next installment. The Big E gets a refit to repair her battle damage and the crew of the USS Enterprise embark on the start of what should be an eventful, glorious and historic Five-Year Mission to Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before. So I give Into Darkness a 9.235 out of 10. My biggest issue was with how long it took to warp to Kronos and then back to Earth. Unless warp speed had improved by a factor of 100 over the old Star Trek this was a plot device that was just way out of step with the rest of the movie. So other than that I am cool with the rest of the film elements as they were explained by the prequel graphic novel and in the novelization book for the film. I look forward to Star Trek 3 to come out in May of 2016 to be a part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek!!! **************DVD Release Addendum************* I was really excited about the Blu-ray release of Into Darkness. I had read about the multitude of extras that JJ Abrams and his team shot for inclusion with the Blu-ray that would be exciting for the fans. Apparently the good folks in the marketing department at Paramount took a look at this treasure of bonus material and saw a way to extort the fans for even more profit. They struck deals to parcel out these bonus features to different retailers forcing fans to buy a plethora of copies to collect all of the bonus features. I didn't cancel my order because this isn't Amazon's fault and I do want the awesome phaser. I won't be buying these extra copies to line Paramount's pockets full of gold-pressed latinum. Actually, if Paramount had an ounce of integrity they would make a public apology for trying to screw over the fans of Star Trek who have made them profits that would make a Ferengi blush and offer a Blu-ray disc with the bonus material to make up for this error in judgement. The website Digital Bits is where I was alerted to this shameful avarice. It stated the following: "Yes... the seven featurettes listed in the press release are basically everything you get on the disc, aside from the usual DVD copy, Digital Copy, UltraViolet copy, Xerox copy and what not. The featurettes amount to about 42 minutes of EPK-style behind the scenes material. There's no commentary, no deleted scenes, no trailers... which would be bad enough. Except... It turns out that more extras were created for this release - more featurettes and even an audio commentary with director J.J. Abrams and members of his crew. None of it is available on the wide release Blu-ray or Blu-ray 3D SKUs. The commentary can only be found as an iTunes "extra" download. And those extra featurettes? Some are on a Target bonus disc. Some are on a Best Buy bonus disc. And some are only available via CinemaNow and VUDU downloads. That's right: More than half of the special features created for Star Trek Into Darkness were used by Paramount's marketing team as retailer exclusives. It's a terrible way to treat your consumers, who are sometimes spending $30 or more for a Blu-ray, expecting to get a little genuine value for their money. And no, six different versions of the exact same movie isn't value. If you're a serious Blu-ray enthusiast - or for that matter a Star Trek fan of any kind - all you care about when you buy a Blu-ray is getting the movie in pristine quality with lots of extras. Though its A/V quality is exceptional, in all other respects the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray is an insult." (to see the entire column, visit www - thedigitalbits - com /columns/my-two-cents/082813_1415)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quinto and Pine are Awesome yet Again
*by A***R on March 27, 2015*

Okay so I'm going to be straight up with you, most of you are going to like the first one better. I personally like this one better and here's why. What some of you are not going to like is the talking and emotional stuff. Personally, I think it adds depth to the characters. You get to see a wider range of emotion from Chris Pine's acting (and Zachary Quinto's but he's Vulcan so . . . well his portrayal of Spock has always been a little more emotional lets be honest). And you see him deal with grief and how it affects his decision and how it makes him a better man by doing the right thing despite his anger and hatred. I do think the emotional stuff between Spock and Uhura (though somewhat funny) was unneeded as I did not feel like it was really resolved unlike the emotional scenes between Kirk and Spock. Watching it, it seems Spock gives more concern to how Kirk's feeling than his girlfriend (I do believe their relationship is in fact doomed since in TOS Uhura ends up with Scotty, Not until Sat Trek 5 but I digress). This movie has a completely different tone than the first. While the first one was witty, funny, and just plain fun, meeting the characters and watching them get into their roles. This movie is a bit darker. Dealing with death and somewhat betrayal. Don't get me wrong, this movie still has it's funny parts. Kirk can't help but throw in that one line even in a serious situation to make the audience laugh. I just feel that because of the tone change the first and second movie shouldn't really be judged together as they are both good in their own way. Thing I hate most. In TOS (The Original Series) it was always about Spock, Kirk, and Bones. Once again, this movie and it's predecessor focus on Spock, Kirk, and Uhura. I like Uhura. I really do. She's a strong willed, independent woman, who can stab Klingons. Awesome, but I did not want to see her so much. I like Bones in TOS. I love the trio's dynamic. This has none of that dynamic as Bones inserts a witty one liner and is off screen for the next twenty minutes. Benedict Cumberbatch. Say what you want about a white guy playing Khan, but he did such a good job at it. Well he plays crazy really well and truthfully, despite his crazy guy ambitions, he's kind of right. Just saying. His performance of the insane genius superhuman is great and it was a pleasure to watch him on the big Screen. (Can't wait to watch Sherlock Season 4) The plot. Well . . . sigh. . . to be honest, they did take parts of Wrath of Khan. When I first watched it, I had never seen TOS or it's movies so I didn't know who Khan was or what happened in the end of Star Trek II, but because I did not know anything about it. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot. After seeing Wrath of Khan I still do, but they did put in references to the movie that might annoy some people. We got to see Klingons for the first time and debating on the repercussions from this movie, we might see them next time too. Overall, I love this movie. I mean loooooove this movie. I love the first one two, but I like watching this one as a higher preference. Some of you will not take too the talking and emotional stuff (though really I didn't think there was as much as people kept claiming. It felt pretty balanced), some will appreciate it. Some will think the plot is a rip off from Wrath of Khan, some will not depending on your stance (I'm saying no cause there's no Genesis Project). I think there is more depth and character development and Kirk and Spock's friendship becomes deeper for it. It's still a good movie. This movie got me interested in TOS and I now I enjoy TOS and Abramsverse as two separate beings. It's a great access to those who don't think they can suffer through the 60s silliness right off the back (that and the first 3 or 4 really bad episodes). So FIVE STARS!!!! . . . . K/S Forever

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