How does Star Trek Into Darkness’s plot hold up three years on?
Ryan takes a closer look…
NB: The following contains spoilers forStar Trek Into DarknessandPrometheus.
Its often the case that post-screening conversations are as much fun as the cinema visit itself.
Sometimes, its the most bewildering movies that provoke the most enjoyable discussions.
Why did Old Man Weyland hide aboard a ship that was his in the first place?
Why didnt Charlize Theron run in a zig-zag instead of a straight line?
And so on, like a less one-sided version of thisvideoby Red Letter Media.
There were terrorist attacks and a conspiracy that went right to the top of Starfleet Command.
But three years have passed since the movies release.
Political careers begun and ended.
Empires have risen and fallen.
Hes a genetically-engineered super-being whos faster, stronger and smarter than any other person living or dead.
To do this, Khan hatches a plot which is quite astonishing in its complexity.
Khans next move requires a bit of conjecture on our part.
Assuming Khan was gambling on Starfleet attempting to capture him alive, the gambit soon pays off.
Its somewhere around this moment, were guessing, that Khan devises a new strategy.
Threatening to destroy the Enterprise, Khan orders Spock to beam the torpedoes containing his crew onto the Vengeance.
In terms of plot complications, were on smoother territory from here on out, relatively speaking.
In retrospect,Star Trek Into Darknessisnt quite the muddle Id initially believed.
There are, admittedly, all kinds of plot conveniences and things casually glossed over.
After the massacre on Kronos, why havent the Klingons declared all-out war by the movies end?
Doesnt Khans blood mean that death has effectively been abolished?
Doesnt Scottys transwarp beaming technology render cumbersome ships like the Enterprise obsolete?
Gene Roddenberry would, I think, have rather liked that sentiment.
