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Star Trek Into Darkness is the twelfth Star Trek feature film, which was released in May, 2013.[1]

Like 2009's Star Trek, the film was preceded by a comic book miniseries published by IDW Publishing. The series is named Countdown to Darkness.[2]

Description[]

Months after the dramatic events seen in the 2009 blockbuster film Star Trek, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise—including Captain James T. Kirk, First Officer Spock, Doctor Leonard McCoy, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, and Ensign Pavel Chekov—is called back home. But an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has declared all-out war on Starfleet and everything it stands for, leaving Earth in a state of crisis. Now with a personal score to settle as a result, Kirk must lead a covert manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As these valiant 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 Captain Kirk has left: his crew.

Summary[]

On planet Nibiru, Kirk and McCoy steal a sacred scroll, luring the natives away from a temple about to be destroyed by a natural disaster. A shuttle piloted by Sulu and Uhura delivers Spock into a volcano with a device that will prevent an eruption that would wipe out the planet's civilisation but his safety cable snaps. With no other way to save him, Kirk pilots the Enterprise in full view of the planet's inhabitants to beam him aboard.

Back on Earth, Kirk is castigated for breaking the Prime Directive and relieved of command. Pike takes over with Kirk as his first officer while Spock is reassigned to the USS Bradbury.

Thomas Harewood, a Starfleet officer working in London, is blackmailed by rogue Starfleet operative John Harrison, who saved his daughter's life with a blood transfusion, to destroy the facility where he works with a concealed bomb. Starfleet head Admiral Marcus convenes a meeting that Pike, Kirk and Spock attend but Harrison has anticipated this, attacking the meeting in a shuttle and killing Pike and several others. Kirk manages to bring the shuttle down but Harrison beams off.

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"John Harrison" arrives.

Scotty discovers a transwarp beaming device in the wreckage and learns Harrison beamed to a deserted part of Qo'nos. Marcus puts Kirk and Spock back in charge of the Enterprise and assigns them to use a new torpedo to destroy Harrison from a distance. Scotty refuses to take receipt of the torpedoes without proper schematics and he and Keenser resign, leaving Chekov as chief engineer. Lieutenant Carol Wallace signs aboard the Enterprise as a science officer but Spock quickly deduces she is actually Carol Marcus, the admiral's daughter.

When the Enterprise warp drive mysteriously fails on entering Klingon space, Kirk takes a team to Qo'nos to find Harrison, having Sulu transmit a warning to him about the missiles. Harrison saves them from a Klingon patrol and surrenders on hearing there are seventy-two missiles. He tells Kirk to investigate a set of co-ordinate near Jupiter and the torpedoes. Kirk asks Scotty, still on Earth, to do the former while McCoy and Carol discover the torpedoes contain three hundred-year-old humans in cryogenic suspension.

Harrison reveals he is Khan, a war criminal who fled Earth in suspended animation. He was found and revived by Marcus, who used him in his attempt to militarise Starfleet for the war he considers inevitable. When it became clear Marcus would never keep his promise to revive his crew, Khan tried to smuggle them out in the torpedoes but had to flee alone. Marcus hoped the Enterprise would be discovered firing on Qo'nos and trigger a war with the Klingons.

Marcus arrives in a secret Federation warship and demands Kirk turn Khan over for execution. Kirk heads to Earth at warp but the faster ship fires on and cripples the Enterprise in Earth's solar system, killing several crew members. Carol alerts Marcus to the fact she is onboard in the hope she will spare the crew but he simply beams her off.

As Marcus is about to fire on the Enterprise, his ship powers down: Scotty found the ship at the co-ordinates Khan gave and stowed away onboard. He helps Kirk and Khan board via the airlock and together they overpower the crew and take the ship. Suspicious of Khan, Kirk has Scotty stun him but Khan recovers and overcomes his allies before killing Marcus. He then threatens to kill them if Spock doesn't return his crew. Spock beams over the torpedoes and Khan returns Kirk, Scotty and Carol. However, the occupants of the torpedoes have been removed and the torpedoes armed: They explode, crippling the warship.

The Enterprise nearly crashes into Earth and Kirk suffers a fatal radiation dose manually realigning the engines. Khan tries to crash the warship into Starfleet Headquarters but hits the bay instead. Spock beams down and pursues him through the streets. Then McCoy realises a tribble he injected with a sample of Khan's blood has come back to life and Kirk could be revived in the same way. Uhura beams down as Khan is about to kill Spock and shoots him repeatedly with a stun blast, allowing Spock to batter him unconscious.

Kirk is successfully revived and Khan is placed back in suspended animation with his followers. One year later, following an extensive physical refit, and with Carol remaining with the crew, the Enterprise departs on a five-year mission.

References[]

Characters[]

Frank AbbottPavel ChekovMae DarwinRima HarewoodThomas HarewoodJohn HarrisonHendorffKeenserJames T. KirkKuronAlexander MarcusCarol MarcusLeonard McCoyChristopher PikeMontgomery ScottKhan Noonien SinghSpockSpockHikaru SuluNyota Uhura
Referenced only
Christine ChapelMudd (Bajoran)

Starships and vehicles[]

USS BradburyUSS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • USS Vengeance (Dreadnought-class) • D4-classJumpship

Locations[]

EarthJupiterKelvin Memorial ArchiveKetha ProvinceLondonNibiruQo'noSSol systemStarbase 1
Referenced only
New VulcanPraxis

Races and cultures[]

AugmentHumanKlingonNibiranVulcan

States and organizations[]

FederationSection 31Starfleet

Science and technology[]

advanced long-range torpedoalternate realitycryogenicsphoton torpedoportable transwarp beaming devicetransportertranswarptranswarp beamingwarp corewarp drive

Ranks and titles[]

admiralcaptaincommanderensignlieutenant

Other references[]

logicPrime DirectiveVulcan nerve pinch

Appendices[]

Related stories[]

References[]

Images[]

Novelization images[]

Promotional images[]

Film images[]

Connections[]

Stories set in the Kelvin timeline
comics When Worlds Collide: Spock Confronts the Ultimate ChallengeNero (1234) • Starfleet Academy (12345) • Star Trek Movie Adaptation (123456) • IDW Star Trek: Volume 1 (Where No Man Has Gone Before: 1, 2The Galileo Seven: 1, 2) • Volume 2 (Operation: Annihilate: 1, 2Vulcan's Vengeance: 1, 2) • Volume 3 (The Return of the Archons: 1, 2The Truth About Tribbles: 1, 2) • Volume 4 (1314Mirrored: 1, 2) • Volume 5 (17181920) • Countdown to Darkness (1234) • Volume 6 (After Darkness: 1, 2, 324) • Volume 7: The Khitomer Conflict (1234) • Khan (12345) • Volume 8 (Parallel Lives: 1, 2I, Enterprise!: 1, 2Lost Apollo: 1, 2) • Volume 9: The Q Gambit (123456) • Volume 10 (Behemoth: 1, 2Eurydice: 1, 2, 3Volume 11 (The Tholian Webs: 1, 2Deity: 12Flesh & Stone) • The Spectrum War (123456) • Live Evil (123) • Reunion (12) • Legacy of Spock (1234) • Connection (12) • Manifest Destiny (1234) • Stranger Worlds (123456) • Boldly Go: Volume 1 (123456) • Volume 2 (789101112) • Volume 3: IDIC (123456)
novels Star TrekStarfleet Academy (The Delta AnomalyThe EdgeThe Gemini AgentThe Assassination Game) • Into DarknessThe Unsettling StarsMore Beautiful Than Death
video games Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice PlanetAcademy TrainerCadet Training FacilityD-A-CRace to DestinyThe Mobile GameStar TrekRivalsDark Remnant
board games Expeditions live-action shorts Transporter CommercialBrilliant Enterprise CommercialCollision insurance commercialBold Explorers
websites Starfleet ShipyardDossiersExperience The Enterprise apps Star Trek App
prequels in original timeline Countdown (1234)
Star Trek series and films
Television series and related media Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS proseTOS comicsTOS games) • Star Trek: The Animated SeriesStar Trek: The Next Generation • (TNG proseTNG comicsTNG games) • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9 proseDS9 comicsDS9 games) • Star Trek: Voyager (VOY proseVOY comics) • Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT prose) • Star Trek: Discovery (DSC proseDSC comics) • Star Trek: Short TreksStar Trek: Picard (PIC prosePIC comics) • Star Trek: Lower Decks (LD comics) • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW proseSNW comics) • Star Trek: Prodigy (PRD prosePRD games)
Films Star Trek: The Motion PictureStar Trek II: The Wrath of KhanStar Trek III: The Search for SpockStar Trek IV: The Voyage HomeStar Trek V: The Final FrontierStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryStar Trek GenerationsStar Trek: First ContactStar Trek: InsurrectionStar Trek NemesisStar TrekStar Trek Into DarknessStar Trek Beyond
Novel series New FrontierChallenger (fm. New Earth) • StargazerCorps of Engineers (fm. SCE) • Klingon Empire (fm. IKS Gorkon) • Vanguard (Seekers) • TitanDepartment of Temporal InvestigationsStarfleet Academy (1990s2010s)
Novel miniseries The Captain's TableDay of HonorDestinyThe Dominion WarDouble HelixThe FallGatewaysInvasion!The Lost EraMirror UniverseMyriad UniversesNew Earth (Challenger) • PreyPrometheusRise of the FederationSection 31Terok NorTyphon PactCoda
Comic series DefiantEarly VoyagesStar Trek/Boldly Go (IDW Kelvin timeline series) • Star Trek (IDW 24th century series) • Starfleet Academy (MarvelIDW) • Star Trek UnlimitedWaypoint
Games Starfleet AcademyStar Trek Online
Other Starfleet Academy
Media featuring Khan Noonien Singh
Episodes/Movies Space SeedThe Wrath of KhanInto Darkness
Novels Space SeedThe Wrath of KhanThe Eugenics Wars (The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1Volume 2To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh) • Seeds of Dissent
Comics The Wrath of Khan (123) • Khan: Ruling in Hell (The First Six Months234) • Khan (12345) • Stranger Worlds (2345)
Media featuring Christopher Pike
Episodes and movies The Original Series The CageThe Menagerie
Movies Star TrekkStar Trek Into Darknessk
Discovery Will You Take My Hand?BrotherNew EdenPoint of LightAn Obol for CharonSaints of ImperfectionThe Sound of ThunderLight and ShadowsIf Memory ServesProject DaedalusThe Red AngelPerpetual InfinityThrough the Valley of ShadowsSuch Sweet Sorrow
Short Treks Q&AThe Trouble with EdwardAsk Not
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Novels Killing TimeaEnterprise: The First AdventureVulcan's GloryLegacyThe RiftWhere Sea Meets SkyBurning DreamsA Less Perfect UnionaThe Children of KingsChild of Two WorldsDesperate HoursThe Enterprise WarThe High Country
Short stories "Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"m
Comics Early Voyages "Flesh of My Flesh" • "The Fires of Pharos" • "Our Dearest Blood" • "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" • Cloak and Dagger (12) • "The Flat, Gold Forever" • "Immortal Wounds" • "One of a Kind" • The Fallen (12) • "Futures, Part One" • "Future Tense" • "Futures" • "Now and Then" • "Thanatos" • "Nemesis"
Starfleet Academy "Return to the Forbidden Planet" • "A Prelude to War"
Crew "Shadows of the Past" • "The Ends of Eternity"
other "All Those Years Ago..." • "To Walk the Night" • "Door in the Cage" • Alien Spotlight Alien Spotlight, Volume I (VulcansOrions) • Mirror Imagesm (1245) • Spock: Reflections, Issue 2Star Trek Movie Adaptationk (23456) • Captain's Log: PikeAftermath (123)
k : Kelvin timelinem : Mirror Universea : alternate reality
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Translations[]
2013
German : Star Trek Into Darkness, translated by Susanne Döpke. (Cross Cult)

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