Star Trek Into Darkness
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Star Trek Into Darkness is the first sequel to the Star Trek reboot movie.
Synopsis
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Act One
While Kirk and McCoy lead natives of a low-tech planet away from a volcano, Spock beams into the caldera of the volcano and plants a cryogenic device to neutralize its eruption, saving the natives from extinction. Volcanic activity, however, makes it impossible for the shuttle that dropped him off to retrieve him before the device detonates. The Enterprise could retrieve Spock if it left hiding to get close enough for transport, but Spock advises Kirk to leave him to his fate, so the native culture will not see a starship, and the Prime Directive will be observed. Kirk chooses to rescue Spock, flying the Enterprise directly over the native population, resulting in a change in their culture.
Upon return to Earth, Kirk receives a reprimand from Captain Pike for his actions, which were explained in Spock's report of the incident. Kirk is relieved of command, causing strife between him and Spock.
Act Two
A man named John Harrison saves a man's daughter with a blood transfusion. In return, the man plants a bomb in a Federation archive on Earth. Starfleet goes on full alert, calling all of the commanding officers in the system to a meeting at Starfleet headquarters. Knowing how Starfleet would respond, Harrison attacks the meeting from an aerial gunship. Kirk is able to disable the craft and force Harrison to retreat via long-range transport, but Captain Pike and many other officers are killed.
Admiral Marcus returns command of the Enterprise to Kirk and orders him to deal with Harrison, who has been traced to an unpopulated region of Quo'nos, the Klingon capital. Kirk is to eliminate Harrison with a long-range torpedo strike, using special torpedos provided by Marcus. Carol Wallace also joins the crew to look after the new weapons.
Although everyone advises Kirk that these orders are illegal and wrong, he still takes the torpedoes aboard (for which Scotty resigns in protest) and takes the ship to the Klingon border. At the border, the warp engines fail.
Between the precarious situation and the constant urging of his crew, Kirk decides to try to capture Harrison instead of killing him with a long-range torpedo strike. Their attempt to sneak onto the Klingon homeworld to capture him is unsuccessful, and Kirk, Spock, and Uhura are nearly captured by Klingon soldiers, only to have Harrison unexpectedly attack the Klingons. Harrison routs the Klingons almost single-handedly, then surrenders to Kirk.
Act Three
Against Spock's advice, Kirk decides to interrogate Harrison. Harrison explains that he is actually Khan Noonien Singh, an augment who left Earth on a sleeper ship. Admiral Marcus discovered the ship and had Khan awakened to help advise a special division of Starfleet on preparing for a confrontation with the Klingons that Marcus considered inevitable. Originating from a time of war, Khan was far more suited to seeing the military applications of Federation technology than Starfleet engineers who had not seen war in generations. Khan helped design a new starship and new weapons to protect his followers, who were essentially being held hostage by Marcus, but he eventually escaped and sought a way to free his friends. Khan says his story can be proven by examining one of the special torpedoes brought on board and by investigating the secret base of the new starship.
Dr. McCoy and Carol examine one of the torpedoes and find a cryogenic capsule inside containing one of Khan's people. Kirk gets in touch with Scotty and asks him to investigate the secret base, which he discovers.
Admiral Marcus abruptly arrives on the scene in the new starship, the USS Vengeance. He confirms much of Khan's story, but he also claims that Khan is a madman attempting to gain power for himself. He demands that Kirk hand Khan over, but Kirk chooses to flee to Earth at warp speed, instead.
Analysis
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